For Memorial Day we had two kids. I don’t understand how parents of more than one child do it – we were exhausted yesterday and it didn’t seem like it was that hard compared to normal. Backing it up, our niece’s daycare was closed for Memorial Day, and her parents had to work. Since I’m home with Henry, and it was Keith’s day off, we were able to watch baby Finley. She is 4 months old, so all she really does is eat, sleep, poop, and look super cute. She’s also rolling over, but not liking it because she can’t roll the other direction.  

 
We met up at Zoo School at the Lowry Park Zoo in Tampa since that’s where cousin Grayson goes. It looked like a fun place to go to preschool; they get to take field trips into the zoo to hang out with animals all the time! We are zoo members so after a snack at the park, we went inside to check out the animals. Usually we head to Africa, but the Hen wanted to see the tiger first so we strolled towards Asia. The tiger was pacing back and forth! Hen remembered the dinosaur lantern-like sculptures from Zoominations and raced towards them because dinosaurs are awesome. He also loved seeing the fish, manatees, and otters. We left at 11 after a quick trip on the merry-go-round and walk through the petting zoo because it started getting insanely crowded and hot. Finley had no zoo preferences; she drifted in and out of sleep and drank a bottle.    

       

The kids fell asleep for about 10 minutes on the way home and Henry thought that was enough of a nap for him so he skipped his nap later on, choosing instead to destroy his room. After lunch, Finley took a two hour nap next to me. We all played outside while Keith took a well-deserved break (he was in the insanity of the no nap zone) in his hammock before heading off to dinner to meet my bro, sis in law, and nephew at P.F. Changs. Henry went to sleep fairly easily (luckily), and we crashed and watched Birdman (Keith liked it, I thought it was weird but cool to see behind the scenes of Broadway and enjoyed the drum solos). Again, Finley was a dream of a baby, but still we were tired – can we get a makeup holiday please?