Wildlife!

Sorry this post is coming late and more pics will have to follow from the other events of the weekend.

We had so much fun with my family this weekend, that this will probably require multiple posts! Mom, Dad, Barbara, Anson, Craig, and Dawson arrived on Thursday. Craig and Nathaniel interacted more than in previous visits, fought less, and yet managed to throw some big fits. The joys of 2 year olds have hit! Nathaniel was pretty sweet with "Baby Dawsie" and was concerned when he would cry. He tended to kiss or pat his head every time he walked by. I am hoping he will be as sweet with his little sister. So Thursday the Caswells helped me pick up and transport a "big boy bed" for Nathaniel. As soon as we move into the new house, we will transition him to this bed (which we are supposed to close within the week- yay!). We spent the evening playing with the kiddos in the yard. Friday we spent some time at Challenger park.

Saturday we went to Bayou Wildlife Park, which was amazing! The kids were able to feed, pet, and even kiss animals (my son tends to think he needs to kiss animals on the face- I realize how incredibly gross and dangerous this is but....he does it anyway).

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What Nate enjoyed most was using the feeding bucket as a hat....go figure!

The kids also got to go on a short pony ride, they loved it.

Then we ventured out to get pictures taken of the 5 cousins....I am still trying to recover from that experience, but we did get some very cute pics. The evening was topped off with a visit to Uncle Robert's temporary tatoo parlor. Sunday we headed to the beach in the morning. Nathaniel now has no fear whatsoever of the ocean and would have walked straight out as far as possible, if Mom was not freaking out. He apparently has poor sensation as well because the water was freezing, but he did not care. That afternoon we cooked out and had an Easter egg hunt.