Showing posts with label Spring Break. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spring Break. Show all posts

Friday, March 20, 2009

Back to the Bazoo


Whew! What a week. We have been fighting illness in this house all week. All four of us have headed to the doctor and my pharmacist asked how I was doing and I for the first time in almost a year croaked out "I'm sick. These are actually for me this time." The bad part of it is that the combination of medications that I am on has been causing me sleepless nights which coupled with sick children has made for a crazy few days. I have been an emotional basketcase for the past two days to the point of near exhaustion. I told Derek today that I feel like I have a newborn at home again. Kyle has been waking up at all hours of the night for almost a week now. He finally told me last night at 2am that it was his ear that hurt. And yes, he has an ear infection confirmed by our Pediatric PA this afternoon. And we got Katie some heavy duty cough medicine since the one she's been on for 2 weeks doesn't seem to be doing the trick. Hopefully with the new medications they will get some rest so that I can get some rest.

Yesterday we headed to the zoo (after I had only 2 hours of sleep the night before). And this time around Kyle corrected me and said, "it's not the Bazoo Mom, it's just the ZOO!" Oh, thanks for setting me straight on that one. It was a gorgeous day and we had so much fun. 6 adults were herding around 10 kids ranging in age from 1 month to 12 years. It was great; for the most part they paired off and stayed that way so we just had to do head counts before we moved. So here's the pics:

The kids (top to bottom, left to right): Makaela, Jackson, Katie, Kyle, Ricky, Jefferson, Chelsea, Lainey, Hope and Laela


Kyle and Jackson at the flamingos


Katie hanging out by the stroller...all day


Katie holding Jefferson's hand


Kyle checking out the orangutan feet


Jonathan the Great


a quick game of tug-o-war after lunch


the girls are dominating...


Katie LOVES snakes...obviously does not take after her parents


Kyle tickles Jefferson's feet


baby giraffe


Katie and Bethany


the leopard


one last group shot before the camera battery dies...


Gotta love the Bazoo!

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Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Spring Breakin'

Yes, I admit it...we've been MIA lately. Between illnesses, travels and just plain having fun Rude Manor has been taking a break from the blog world. Last weekend we headed to Fredericksburg to visit my sister and her family. It's always so nice to go relax and slow it down a bit when we see them. The kids had a Star Wars festival in the backyard - Kyle was in heaven!






The next day they took it easy and played in the sand box and on the fort while Noah went down to the creek to "fish". The chickens tried to help with the sand creations, but were quickly shooed out of the sandbox.






We celebrated Aunt Leslie's birthday with an oreo chocolate cheesecake and chocolate pudding for the kids. Yummy!

On the drive home, we took a detour to check out Lake Bastrop. Not much there, don't think we'll be making a return trip, but the kids enjoyed the short break.



And finally we took another detour on the drive home when we found a real patch of Texas Bluebonnets. Nothing like our roped off field of flowers at the area park...these were the real deal in Brenham. Gorgeous!





So that was our weekend...we're still Spring Breakin' around here. Headed to the BaZoo tomorrow. Hooray!

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