Colin's First Zoo Class

Colin was very excited about his zoo class. Kevin had two this summer, one in May and one in June. Colin had to wait until September 11 for his class. He was very patient. By the time his class came he talked about it for days, and even told his teachers about it.

The class was called "Romp And Stomp." In it, they talked about different animals and how they move. When he first entered the room, they had animal puppets matched with real animal parts. While all the other children were nervous and clinging to parents, Colin was comfortably moving from table to table. He started to feed some of the animals, and made their sounds.

Colin feeding the snake saying "hissssss." Then he told me it was "thirsty" and was "going over to the waterfall over there." (The waterfall was pretend.)

Putting the turtle "in his home." "Safe now."

All the kids sat around a rug on the floor to listen to stories. When the teacher would ask questions, he would shout the answer without any help from me. Afterwards the teacher brought around several animals to touch. (Frog, chinchilla, snake, bird, etc.) Colin was brave and touched some, but not all of them. Then it was art time, so Colin and I both made dragonflies.

Sitting in my lap with a penguin.

Touching the snake.

Coloring his dragonfly. I love his "working hard" face!

Zoo Run 2010

This past Sunday the St. Louis Zoo hosted a run. We all went down to support K2 running a 5K and Kevin running 1/4 mile. Here are some pictures.

K2's race was at 8:00, so while he was running we were having raisins.

To keep entertained while he was racing, the boys played in the gravel nearby.

After K2 ran, we had about 45 minutes of downtime before Kevin's race. We played in the fountain by the World's Fair Pavilion. The water was too cold for Colin, but Kevin and I had fun walking through it.

Hot Mom

Here is a picture of the start/finish line from the fountain.
(Lookin' Sassy)

Kevin had already told us that he wanted "Colin, Mommy and Daddy to race" with him. However, it was going to be only Colin and Daddy so that I would be waiting at the finish line. (It was very cute. They had the kids run out 1/8 a mile and then turn around.) It didn't really work out that way. Colin was so tired and hot that he wanted to be carried. So he and I worked out a deal that we would wait by the finish line and then join daddy and Kevin to finish together. Before the race, Kevin even asked daddy to show him how to stretch. Here is a picture of K2 giving him some runner's advice.



However, since there were over 3000 racers entered, and they had every get ready at the start line and made them wait, Kevin was very hot and tired. After about 100 feet he stopped. That is okay. We were all hot and tired, but we all had fun! Colin was very sad he didn't get to run. So I am thinking we will try again next year.

Zoo Trip

For those who don't already know, the zoo is Colin's favorite place. He mentions it every single day. (What do you want for breakfast? Zoo! What did you do at school today? Zoo!) So with the weather being so wonderful last weekend, we headed to the zoo. (You would think he would flip out from being so excited, but he acts really cool about it. It is almost disappointing he little excitement he actually has when we finally take him.) Kevin gets much more excited. We always eat lunch there and ride the train. Kevin's big thing now is getting a corn dog on stick.

Here are some pictures from our day.