A day at the zoo

We took the kids to the zoo on Saturday with Brianna's friend from school. I have to admit the LR Zoo is getting better. This is the first time I went to the zoo and actually felt like we saw enough animals that we did not waste our money getting into the zoo.

The highlight of the day was Mary the Elephant painted a picture that was too be raffled off after she was done. Brian bought a few chances to win the painting. I never actually thought that he would win that I did not take any pictures of Mary painting. Luckily Savanna's mom did and she sent them to me!!

I had no idea of how much people want these paintings but a guy asked Brian if he would sell it to him. Brian declined and I am thinking a framed painting to go in the newly redecorated black and white kids bath is in order!!!

Book Character Dress-Up Day 2011

Brianna has a very strong love of the book A Bad Case of the Stripes. It is about Camilla Cream who wanted so badly to be liked at school and on the first day of school she wakes up with the stripes. Her parents try to find a cure and everyone has an opinion and they stripes keep getting worse until finally they find out the cure is actually lima beans.

She developed the love of the this book from her kindergarten teacher and she has never lost it. She was hoping to dress up as Camilla last year at her old school but they did not have a dress-up day and she probably would not have been able to since she had a little boy in her class that was afraid of the book and all things stripes.... Surely I would have talked her out of it.

This was her year to get to dress up as Camilla and there was no talking her out of it. We got her up really early and Brian painted her stripes on. She was so excited!!!

She won the character dress-up for her class and ALL of the first and kindergarten classes!!! She got a bunch of goodies and a gift card to Barnes and Noble! My only concern is what can she do to one up herself next year!!!