Spitting Dinosaurs!

Wednesday was pretty standard really.  The boys both went to school and I did work around the house.  Someone picked up the see saw I sold and I grabbed a new window cleaner who charges £7 to do the whole house! Bargain.  When I say grab, I don't mean I physically got hold of the bloke, I just mean I saw him doing another house on the street and I stopped to ask him if he could do ours too.

I took everyone shopping in the afternoon.  Never an easy task and I had lots to do, so I was dragging tired hungry kids around several shops.

I fed the boys at McDonanlds then went into Asda for a few more things.  Ellis decided he needed the toilet at the till.  Now normally Ellis can hold on and hold on and hold on but because of the milkshake he had for dinner, he couldn't hold it on this occasion and I was stuck at the till trying to fill bags, stop Leo running off, trying to calm Ellis down and paying the lady.  The poor kid was in distress and I went as fast as I could.  We got to the toilet only to find that it had moved to upstairs! With the trolley and Leo it was slow progress and poor Ellis just couldn't walk anymore so we stopped at the disabled toilet but it was being used! He was crying and getting very worried about peeing in his pants but finally the person came out and I quickly helped him to get sorted.  I felt so sorry for him but thankfully it all ended well.

We got home and we did the bath and bed routine but everyone was fussing.  Leo and Ellis took an hour to settle and Oscar even longer as he kept pooing!

The following day Ellis had a dress down day and cake sell and Rob took him to school.

At home I just blurted out about going to the zoo to Leo.  I made myself do it so I could trap myself into going.  I didn't want a lazy day and I knew I should be doing something with the boys.  Of course Leo said he wanted to go, so that was that and I quickly rushed around getting everything ready and put him in his new outfit that Auntie Lucy bought for his birthday.

Oscar had a very short snooze on the way there and we managed to park in the main car park and we were inside by 10:30am.

To say I had a fantastic time is an understatement.  We had tons of fun, saw and did so much and the boys were so good.

We went anticlockwise around the park seeing the butterflies first, which Leo didn't like, and he also didn't like the dinosaur models much either.  The new meerkat enclosure, otters, gibbons, gorillas, penguins and seals were next followed by our lunch as Leo said he was hungry.

The birds bugged us a lot while we were eating and Leo was a bit upset by it all but we got through it and they both ate really well.

After lunch I sneakily got Leo over to see the T-Rex.

 We watched a bit of the show on the grass and Leo sat quite nicely at the front for a short while but soon got bored so we wandered off to see the fish, bugs, reptiles, lions and animals in the dark.  Literally seconds after entering the dark enclosure, Oscar zonked out.   So cute.

Didn't like them.

My favourite.

2 toed sloth

After going through the bats, Leo spotted the big slide and I said he could have a go.  Oscar stayed asleep.

We then saw a dinosaur spitting out water and I thought it was the one that Ellis had been talking about since his recent school trip.

It wasn't until I saw this one on the way out that I thought I might of had it wrong.  He later told me that I was wrong and that the one below is where he stood with his friends getting sprayed.

As we were leaving Leo tripped over and scraped all down his arm.  It was quite nasty but he was really brave.  We bought a 3D fridge magnet in the shop to cheer him up.  His choice.

At the exit Leo decided he wanted an ice-cream and I said no, so obviously he cried all the way back to the car, refused to walk so I had to carry him and push the buggy, in the rain.  In the car it took a minute before he was trying to go to sleep.  Stopped at some traffic lights I watched him drifting off with his thumb falling out, then going back in several times.  It was really funny but I couldn't video it which would have been better than these pictures.

We all went to the cake sell before picking Ellis up and going home for dinner.  Busy fun day and it wasn't over.  Ellis had football from 5-6pm and then we came home for bath and bed.  Rob thankfully finished off the bath so that I could get some dinner on for us.  We then tidied up together too so that was a big help.

In the evening Rob found some white things on the back of his throat and he soon found out what they were by looking on the internet. He diagnosed himself with tonsillolith which you can read about here if you would like. We then spent the entire evening trying to get them out with cotton buds.  It was great fun as I got to do it and every time I did, he would gag and make a noise and I couldn't stop laughing, every single time, and we were at it for over an hour.

It was gone midnight before I manged to get to bed.  To be honest that seems to be my new bed time as I just wouldn't get anything done if I went to bed any earlier.  I just hope I can keep going during the day.  May need to have an early night every now and then.