zoo with nana

on nana's last day, we took her to the zoo.  we had taken her to the cleveland zoo last time (she had flown into cleveland so it made sense) so this was her first time at 'our' zoo.  madelyn had school in the morning and mason went off with daddy.  nana watched maddux while i had a few meetings and packed up a lunch for us to take.  (all three kids are wearing shirts from papa and nana.)

maddux fell asleep in the car on the way and nana said he looked like papa with his arms folded under his head after we put him in the stroller.

maddux and nana looking for 'hidden' animals in the mural.

i couldn't get both of them to look up at the same time - the tractor is just that interesting.

when we went last week, the merry-go-round was open after being covered up all season.  i told the kids that they could have a ride when nana came to visit.  and they did not forget.  i had a hard time waving and framing a picture.  madelyn is on the left in the first picture and madelyn, maddux and nana are in front of mason and matt in the second picture.

mason was done taking pictures by the time i tried to take the 'boys' shot on our way out.  you can see by the boys' rosy cheeks that sunscreen needs to become part of my routine again.  (mason had refused to change into shorts before leaving for the zoo.)

one side story - early in our visit to the zoo an older boy looked at maddux and doubled-over with laughter.  he thought that maddux' shirt was hysterical!  he was laughing so hard that it actually scared maddux a little.

after the zoo we dropped nana off at the airport.  both boys had fallen asleep, but madelyn was able to say good-bye.  we really lucked out with the weather.  it was so nice to be able to get out while matt had a few weekdays off and nana was visiting!  love.