Story Time at the Zoo

The overachieving parent.............

I took the twins to the zoo for story time to meet Kara and the crew. We hadn't been there all winter. To be perfectly honest the thought of dressing two toddlers in their winter attire, loading them into the car, into the stroller, and then wrestling their hats and mittens off (and keeping track of them!) for fifteen minutes of story time (in which perhaps one minute was actually spent looking at the book) sounded like a lot of work! After story time the kids get to have an "animal encounter" so once more on with the boots, snowsuits, hats, and mittens................yeah right! Needless to say my children missed out on story time this winter. They love the zoo and enjoyed running around looking at the animals and, for me one set of getting everyone ready was doable. Can you imagine Kara and I herding five children three and under into all said winter accoutrements and keeping them all happy, and moving in the same direction? NOT HAPPENING!

This Wednesday we aimed high and took our herd to story time. It was a balmy 40 degrees, no hats, no mittens, just boots, and coats. Ahh, the joys of spring! They enjoyed the fox stories, and got to pet Chance (our resident fox). As we were walking to the car feeling quite impressed with ourselves for following through and taking the children on an exciting adventure, Kara overheard another parent say, "Are we ready to go to the library now?"

Are you kidding me, the library???????? What kind of overachieving parent takes their kids on more than one activity a day????????? The zoo and the library? Next it is going to be the zoo, the library, and H2Oasis all in the same day!