For Sale: Toddler Bed

We have a strange toddler! Keira has been sleeping in the La-Z-Boy chair in her room for a couple months instead of sleeping in her bed. We don't know why she is doing this other than the fact that toddlers like to feel that they control something in their lives.

On some nights, we plead with her to sleep in her bed, but she usually negotiates saying that she will sleep in her bed tomorrow night. We generally let her have her way since it isn't a health or safety issue. Some nights we will move her into her bed when we go upstairs and some nights she moves into bed on her own.

It seems that she still gets good sleep. A testament to this might be that I was able to turn on the overhead lights and take two pictures (with no flash) and she didn't wake up!

Farm Babies 2009

The girls' school and day care were closed on Friday for in-service so I took the day off and we (Shannon, Sydney, and Keira) went to the Minnesota Zoo to see the farm babies. The air was crisp but the sun was out and it was a beautiful morning.

It was very unlike me, but I got up early and we arrived at the zoo at 9:30. It was already busy in the morning, but there were three times the number of cars in the parking lot by the time we left at 12:30 and the line to get into the zoo was backed up to the street.

We needed to renew our zoo membership for another year so I wanted to make yesterday's trip as cheap as possible. We packed snacks for the girls and planned to be home for lunch. Our total cost at the zoo was $2.68 for a bottle of Sprite and some loose change to put into the "funnel."

The girls said their favorite part of the trip to the zoo yesterday was seeing the baby pigs. We rode in the wagon on the way back from the farm and we also walked through the Grizzly Coast to see the bears and the sea otters. I am looking forward to seeing the new Woodland Adventure area that is opening this summer.