Kurt and Kellie

Wes has been working very hard these days. He started preschool in February, four mornings a week, and also gets one on one in home therapy 18 hours each week. The regular preschool session ended last week and summer school starts next week (they highly recommend it so that there's not a regression of skills) so Wes got one week off, woohoo. We kept up the in home therapy, which left us with three free mornings to enjoy "summer break". We have lived up our week off. First, we have thoroughly enjoyed a more relaxed morning, sleeping in a few minutes and not having to get ready for school the second we wake up. Second, we have enjoyed some fun activities. A local theater plays past season movies for $1 during the summer, so we enjoyed Happy Feet II with our friends Katherine and Ethan. We also had fun at the zoo with Auntie Dawn. Wes has been several times, but it was Bri's first time. Wes was most looking forward to seeing the giraffes.

We spent the most time watching the monkeys, even got to see a baby. It was probably Wes' favorite, although while eating lunch I asked him what he liked most so far and he said "the mouse," referring to the dead rat we saw in a bowl to be later fed to a snake. Oy, he's a true boy.

Lastly, we got to go to Travel Town, a train museum with lots of out of commission trains, with Aunt Jenny and cousin Noah. Wes and Bri have been multiple times but it was my first, as well as Jenny and Noah's.

Its always tricky trying to get three little ones to pose for a picture without an adult, this picture just makes me laugh.

Most of the trains are closed, but they let you climb into a few. Cuties.

The whole time Wes kept saying, "go play with the small trains." Silly boy, we come all this way and see real trains and he just wants to go to the gift shop and play with the toy ones. But it sure was sweet watching all three of them play on the giant toy train track.

After Travel Town we went down the road to a small train ride and pony ride.

Wes has ridden the ponies several times and really enjoys it. Noah was a trooper and enjoyed his first time. Bri not so much, she cried, so I had to half hold her for the entire ride and shush in her ear to keep her calm (while also holding Wes with my other arm because he specifically wanted the black horse, which another kid already had, that boy knows what he wants).