Mrs. Mortenson, the Moose

During Author's Chair today, one of my students had the opportunity to share her published story to the class. In short, it was about her love of animals and if she was really good at school, her parents would let her get one more pet. She chose a moose and named it Mrs. Mortenson.

Here is an excerpt:

"It was Take-Your-Pet-to-School day, but we could only bring one pet, so I decided to bring my moose! The next day, when I got to school, I could barley fit Mrs. Mortenson through the door. But more kids came and decided to help get Mrs. Mortenson through the door! We had to push very hard to finally get it accomplished."

As if I wasn't already feeling HUGE!!!!

Besties

Sage had her BFF Claire over to help celebrate her birthday with her. Luckily neither one realized it was actually a day late... but definitely not a dollar short! They had so much fun together.

At one point they chased each other upstairs in their high-heeled dress-up shoes. Instead of interfering with their antics, Matt, Lauren, Ross and I turned on the video monitor and watched the show. Ross took video with the Flip Cam so I will shorten it up a bit and post later on... too funny!

Rollin' in the Dough

Who would have thought a chef's outfit and Play-Doh would make a little girl so happy?

Look Who's 2!

It's hard to believe that our baby is already two-years-old! Somehow we've made it this far without too many major parenting errors.

Although Sage apparently would not agree, as she is already studying up on how to raise baby #2...

We're definitely going to have our hands full!

Naptime = Playtime

...somebody had a little fun before she finally settled down for her nap. :)



It's hard to see, but when we left the room, her floor was spotless. When I returned to check on her, shoes adorned the floor, her dirty clothes had been dumped out of their basket and tossed about the room, the basket for her laundry was turned over in her closet, diapers were scattered about, stuffed animals filled in the gaps, and she was sleeping with a tube of diaper cream. Go figure... at least she eventually managed to crawl back up into bed!

Omaha Zoo

We've been taking advantage of this beautiful fall weather. This weekend we decided to take a day-trip to the Omaha zoo--and I'm so glad that we did! The day couldn't have gone any better. We left WDM a little after 9 and got to the zoo a little after 11. I packed a picnic lunch for us and plenty of snacks to keep Sage occupied if she started to get antsy. I was a bit worried that she wouldn't want to be pushed around in her stroller, since she gets to walk around the DSM zoo these days, but she did great. She got out a couple of times to go potty but then let us put her back in. She did walk around the aviary with Ross, and around the children's petting zoo.

The zoo is huge! There were a lot more indoor exhibits than I had expected. Perhaps my favorite were the gorillas and Ross would probably say that his was the walk-through underwater part with sharks and giant sea turtles swimming above. We just happened to be there during feeding time, so the sharks were quite active. Every time we walked out of a building, Sage would say, "More animals". She was really disappointed when we left to go back home over three hours later.