Our Trip To The Zoo

We went to the zoo yesterday and boy was it a trip. First off, Kaiya hates her car seat. She screams everywhere we go. If you rock her car seat back and forth she is usually quiet but as soon as you stop she screams. Well you can't really do that safely and drive so she usually just screams on all our trips. So we start out every outing with a large amount of stress. So we are all packed up, put everyone in the car and cue Kaiya, "WWWWAAAAHHHHH." So for half the trip (it's a 30 minute drive) Kaiya is crying, Rayelle and Terhan are singing Twinkle, Twinkle at the top of their lungs because they think it's going to make the baby stop crying, I'm trying to navigate traffic and three people call me all at the same time. Yeah, fun times. We finally get to the zoo and I am excited because I just know the kids are going to love seeing all the animals. Wrong. "Hey look Terhan, there's a monkey!" He says, "Wow. Let's go see the lions." walk walk walk "Look Terhan there's a lion!" "Cool. Let's go see the tigers." walk walk walk "Look Terhan, there's a tiger." "Umm, let's go see the..." And on it goes. They weren't even excited. AAARRRGGGHHH!!! Then Terhan decides to throw a rock into the hippo pond with the hippos. At this point I want to scream. One good point though, we went to the zoo last year and took a picture on this huge metal alligator. Well this time we found the alligator and took another picture. I'm going to post them side by side. I am anxious to see how much they've grown in just a year. Time flies by and I'm trying to savor every minute even if it means mass chaos every time we try to go somewhere because I know one day I'll look in the backseat and it will be empty and I'll wonder where my screaming babies are. :)