Hayden has Odyssey of the Mind competition on Mar 1st. They have practice every Tues and Thurs until 530 and practices on Saturday and Sunday. They have very strict rules for competition and the kids are working so hard. I am so proud of him, considering he is the youngest of all the groups. They had spontaneous night last Tuesday until 8. They were preparing the kids from all the Springdale competing schools for competition. Hayden LOVED it! Surprised! Competitions, judges..no thanks. But he said he wished he did that at every Odyssey practice. Lol. (We will see how much he loves competition when he figures out that we have to be at the Bentonville Jr High by 645am on a Saturday) Needless, to say we have been busy with that, helping him memorize his skit and still making sure he gets all his schoolwork done. He doesn't seem to mind it at all. :)
Andrew got a new job. He was very persistent and has worked hard for a good job opportunity. Couldn't be more proud of him. He is really looking forward to it. He starts Mar 3rd....which means he won't miss Hayden's competition! :)
Olivia, such a special little girl. She just goes along with all the things that we need to do for Hayden. She gets treats now and then which make her happy and content. :) We make sure to do fun things with her...we have story time every Tuesday morning at the library. Olivia loves story time and going to the library. All the librarians that work in the kids section all know her by name. She just walks around like she owns the place. She told me the other day that when she grew up she wanted to be a librarian! Okay, with me! I adore libraries and all they offer.
SO....Hayden had Odyssey practice yesterday and afterwards I decided to take them to the Tulsa Zoo. Andrew's sister got us memberships to the zoo and it was a nice day so why not! I have pictures from the zoo but not much else....I guess I am not getting better about picture taking. Eh. Oh well.
One little girl was convinced this was a tiger. As we walked away Hayden said...that was NOT a tiger. Ha.
Mini rock climbing...this thing was packed with kids.
Poor girl just could not figure out this spider web.
HAD to stop and play at the park. The zoo was SO busy! I guess nice weather, a Saturday and was overcast would call for a pretty busy zoo day. But being by myself with two kids who wanted to run in two different directions got a little stressful at times. They were really good though. I was proud of them.
Hayden just had to see the flamingos.
The new sea lion habitat is really cool. You can go under and watch them swimming around. Unfortunately, their glass was a tidbit dirty.
The painted dogs took over the cheetah habitat. We could not find the cheetah and Hayden was not pleased. I, however, found these dogs to be really neat.
Silly kids wanted their picture taken in the' jungle'. Then proceeded to ask me if we could eat it. :/
When we first got to the zoo this Grizzly was our first stop. All the kids were crowded around this glass to see him as he was trying to nap.
I am assuming this upset him as he slammed his paw on the glass....see his paw near Hayden's head?
Glass cleared. Grizzly successful. :) BTW, after we left the bear Hayden said 'That was a meat eater and he kind of scared me.' Lol. :)
White bird. I haven't a clue as to what this thing is.....
Bald Eagle. Hayden sat and stared at him for at least 3 minutes while explaining to Olivia why he was so important. Great big brother.
Her face when I want a picture. Cute.
And his. Even better.
Albino alligators are new to the zoo and super cool!
They loved going up to the glass and trying to find the animals.
Yes....yes they loved this.
This peacock was chasing around the kangaroos and when he got up to them he spread out his feathers and would charge at them. I would not want to mess with a peacock. Lol.
These guys were just playing. It was pretty cool to see the animals all so active.
And that's all the pictures I got from the zoo. We had a good time and the trip solo was worth it. The kids had fun and we were all beat when we got home.
