Busy Saturday

So I finally arose this AM to give my kids their breakfast of waffles and then showered in preparation for another sweat-soaked day today in the sunny South. My son's highlight today was meeting the Burmese Pythons that are cared for by the Birmingham Zoo. It seems that once every year they make a big deal out of measuring their big snakes with the "help" of customers (also known as "guests"). It doesn't matter to my son that we spent 30 minutes in the sweltering heat, or that he wasn't chosen to help hold one of the two BIG snakes (one Burmese python and one anaconda), but that he was able to touch a couple of the snakes shown on stage and talk to a real vet from the zoo. Oh, and he made a big deal about being with me (which was my favorite part too (not being with myself, silly, but being alone with my son)).

While we men were at the zoo, my girls were with Mommy meeting Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Cinderella, the Fairy God Mother, and Prince Charming at the Hoover Library. The pictures were cute of the girls with Prince Charming and the Fairy God Mother, but my favorite part of the excursion were the cards of autographs that the girls carried home with the signatures of the princesses and Prince Charming. This obviously was geared for little ones with the so-called signatures printed by hand rather than in cursive, but the best part was that Prince Charming did the typical male thing and signed in style and simplicity with "P.C.". Nonetheless, my girls were thrilled. My Sarah Bug held her little silk rose from Prince Charming all afternoon.

Another highlight was visiting with some friends from Church at a supper club, and the kids were able to swim (though my little Bug didn't feel safe in the pool and chose to the utilize the trampoline all evening).

By the way, if you are in the Homewood area of Central Alabama and would like some good hardy angelfish, we just unloaded 12 of them at Ed's Pet World (another favorite place of ours).

So Milo has been taken out, Gorgeous has fed the fish, and so she and I are off to take our nightly repose...