In need of more vacation

So this blog isn't exactly going in chronilogical order...I should have posted my Utah vacation first, followed by this particular post, and then my Mother's Day post, but I didn't and well, it's my blog so I'll do what I want. Just stay with me here.

After my Utah vacation, I flew into Cleveland. I stayed the night at Carissa and Adam's house, made my traditional trip to Trader Joe's (we don't have one in Toledo), and slept on the couch - which, to take Carissa off the hook, I totally offered to do since I thought their couch was comfortable. Word of advice: couches are comfortable to lounge on, maybe watch a long movie, but definately not when you are on them all night! And especially not when you are pregnant.

Anyway they followed me back to Toledo to spend some quality time with the Lafrancas. After my ultrasound, we went to Applebees for dinner with all the kids. Jeremiah and I don't usually go out to dinner with the kids, but they did okay. We went right at 5pm so it wasn't really crowded, and besides Jack's super high-pitch screams, they were relatively good. Of course I got the Oriental Chicken Salad, which never sounded good to me until I got pregnant. After dinner the guys went and saw "Iron Man" while Carissa and I went grocery shopping with the kids and put them to bed. The next day we went to the Toledo Zoo, our first opportunity to use our zoo pass here. It's a huge zoo! We saw maybe 3/4 of the zoo and we were there like 3 hours. It was a little cold but the kids had a great time.

The kids at the polar bear exhibit. This was my favorite because the bears were awake and active. One kept wrestling with a bucket, and you could watch them on the ground or underwater.Our attempt to get all four kids to take a picture together. If you remember from our Hogle Zoo experience, Hayden wants his picture taken with each statue. The rest of the kids just wanted to play.This is what happens when Jeremiah takes over the camera. The kids being a little restless, this was our last stop at the zoo. The gorilla (or ape?) kept hitting the window, the kids thought it was great (and I thought it was great that the glass was so strong!).

That night Carissa and I saw Made of Honor with Patrick Dempsey, meaning we went to see Patrick Dempsey, and then made a pit stop at Children's Place before heading home. My intention was to buy an outfit for our baby to celebrate her girl status, but I didn't see anything super impressive so I got the boys some flip flops. We played Mexican Train that night, where the Poyfairs kicked our butts. I think they cheated.

Our last day with them was spent at Old Navy and the Shops at Fallen Timbers, a new outdoor mall in Maumee. In an embarrassing moment, Roman grabbed a shirt inside Buckle and threw it at his feet in the stroller...unknown to me until the shop's alarms went off as I went to leave. Who taught him to steal?! We promised the kids popsicles if they were good, and so we kept our promise...

While Olivia just eats her popsicle, Hayden has contracted Pearson fever, making strange faces whenever a camera comes near him. A cure please?

Roman, although world's slowest popsicle eater, didn't make quite the mess I anticipated. He was still eating his popsicle while the rest of the kids were getting ready for naps.

We had a great time with the Poyfairs here, although it did make me realize how small my family room is. The kids got along relatively well, maybe because we tried to keep them busy. Thanks for coming and visiting! I needed a second vacation =)