A Mothers Day Tea

Today at Z man's preschool, it was the Mothers Day Tea. Z man was super excited for me to be at his school with him and I was so excited to see there and it just be us. He is a real daddy's boy so he would prefer to hang out with Daddy than Mommy. I get to his school and I walk up the stairs to his classroom. He greets me at the door and gives me a paper rose that I can pin on my shirt. I thought I was going to cry right there. He was so adorable giving it to me. At that point, I wanted to tell him that I am the only girl that he is ever allowed to give any kind of flower to, but I held myself back as I know that he will one day give flowers to someone else. We got to take our picture together which I assume that they are going to put in a little frame and give to us next week. Then, Z man led me to my seat where all the moms sat waiting for the kids to start their show. The kids all sang us several songs. I was so proud of him because he was singing (off key, but that's okay) and he was just beaming with pride. Oh how I love my little guy! After they were done singing, Z man came over and sat with me and his teachers had asked all the kids some basic questions about their mommies and we were going to try and figure out who's kid said what.

The questions were:
1) What is your Mommy's Name?
Z Man's response: Mom (He is correct, but he does actually know what my name is)
2) How old is she?
Z Man's response: Bigger than I am.
3) How much does she weigh?
Z Man's response: 8 ( If I only weighed 8 pounds, we would have a lot of issues, but it was at least better than some responses in which moms weighed a ton or 2000 pounds.)
4) What color is her hair?
Z Man's response: Black (Just for the record my hair is brown)
5) What is her favorite drink?
Z Man's response: Water (now I do like water, but I like Coke better than anything else)
6) What does she cook?
Z Man's Response: In her kitchen. She makes eggs. ( I do make other things as well, so my guess is that the day the questionaire was answered, I had made eggs for breakfast)
7) What is her favorite tv show?
Z Man's Response: American Idol (I hate this show, so since so many kids gave this response, I am going to guess that is why he said this)

You have to love some kids responses. They were quite humerous. After this, Z man got me my present. I had to send in a pair of shoes a month ago, so I knew it was going to be something involved with that. The shoes were bronzed and he apparently is growing something. I believe it is a plant of some kind. Let's just hopeI don't kill it before it grows. We had cookies and "tea" (read apple juice and lemonade). It was a great day and I am so glad that I got to spend the morning with him.

After preschool, we met my mom and Princess M at a nursery where the kids bought me a beautiful hanging basket and stepping stone kits so I can have their handprints in them. I don't need anything for Mothers Day. I just always want to spend the day with my children and make sure that they know that there is no one in this world who is more important to me than the two of them!

Lions, Tigers, and Bears, Oh my!

Yesterday, we took the kids to the zoo. They were opening a new exhibit, The Great Bear Wilderness and it was only going to be opened for Members Only. Let me tell you there are A LOT of members at the zoo. We knew that there would be limited number of tickets and we knew that it would be a little wait, but it was ridiculous. First, we followed the signs that the zoo put out telling us how to get there. Great it led us there, however since the line was very very long, we essentially walked all the way to the other side of the zoo (where we entered at). We waited in the line and line two families before us were the last ones allowed to get in the new exhibit at that time. We were going to receive ticketed times to come back. This was fine with us. However, as we are being stopped, people are lining up at a table (who were not in the same line as us and have not been waiting at ALL) and getting ticktets. They were getting the earlier ticketed times as well, which was frustrating. We have gone to so many things at the zoo and this has to be the worse orchestrated event they have ever done. One person would tell us one thing and another person would say something else. Nobody would say the same thing. Once we got our tickets, we did a couple of exhibits and then ate lunch since the kids were just SOOO HUNGRY.

Now, I love looking at the bears. They are probably one of my favorites animals, and while their exhibits are cool, I don't think it was really worth the wait. We should have just not waited and came back after it was officially opened and I would have been fine. But we of course promised the kids and they were excited to see them.

We think that Z man has problems with crowds and we are pretty sure he acts out in them because he hates them soo much. Once we got away from the crowds he was like a completely different kid. Princess M was defiant as ever! She is really set in her own ways and there is no reasoning with her.

We had fun at the zoo and that is all that really matters.

After the zoo, we had to go grocery shopping and thankfully the kids were wonderful at the store because my patience level was pretty much nonexistant at this point.

I was passed out by 7:30 and didn't wake up until this morning when The Teacher got up this morning for work.

Now back to reality of work and school. It's a good thing I work today because my children are all about finding those little things to do to each other that they know will bother them. I feel as though all I say all day, is No. Stop that. Leave him/her alone.