We started our weekend off great, with a football game! Central Charges the high school that we feed into. Their first game of the season, they won! Brendan stayed with a friend and was home about mid-night. Carter woke him up Saturday and this is where I see what 16 and 10 is going to be like for me. Brendan told Carter " when I stay out with my friends late at football games, DON'T WAKE ME UP the next morning!" WOW! at least he explained it to him why he was yelling at him. Carter just said "it's morning and it's time to get up."
We found ourselves looking forward to staying close to home. One Gabe is working like crazy right now. He opened his first
Dunkin Donuts store the 25
th of August and has another to open the 24 of September. So for what I thought would be a nice, restful, 3 days for me and the boys after the first week of school. What a joke, what was I thinking? Not with 2 boys who can be great together or NOT and it was just NOT this weekend. They was
soo- tired of each other, we had to escape from the same 4 walls by Sunday afternoon. So we decided to go with Gabe to Cabala's and get new fishing poles for Carter and Gabe. It has been a great bonding time for them all to go fishing over at the pond. Brendan has progressed to baiting his own hooks and removing the fish by himself. Then on Monday what better way to escape when your children are acting like monkeys or some unknown wild animal. We decided to put or membership to use and go visit the real monkeys and other various wild animals. I think everyone had that one on their mind too. The Ft. Worth zoo was very busy!
Brendan was fascinated that the silver back Gorillas back was so white. This bird was just weird looking but neat. His head went completely around!
They have like a Texan area and this old Wells Fargo Carriage for kids/visitors to sit in. The whole area is like a old cow town, and a building that is all about Texas and native plastic plants. We also stopped to pet a baby cow and it was more interested in licking our zoo bag then it licked my hand! YUCK! it was worst then a cats tongue. Boys thought it was the funniest thing ever.
One of their favorites to watch, is the river otters. I had just missed it in the bubble but Brendan had been sitting there, when he came up and scared Brendan as he swam by.
I am thinking about a future in alligator wrestling? Maybe not.
They couldn't wait to see the snakes, bats and other things that slither, fly or crawl at night. This place had rattlers, Bats, ants and some desert beetle.
Yes! that is a rattle snake, The other is a banned copperhead I think that is what it was. I hope that is the only way they ever see either one of them. Since they are native.
Of course they have Penguins! They were very active and the building was crowded. The boys were able to get up to the glass and this one kept swimming by Carter. I think he may have liked him. We had a great time and it was just what we needed, what a wonderful day we had.
They looked forward to Tuesday and going to school but by Thursday, Carter once again didn't want to go anymore. He is done with school. He can count to 10 he knows all of his alphabet by sound and site. He is getting better at writing his own name. Teacher thinks he is really smart. We of course have known this about him a long time now though.
