Weekend Adventures with Kevin and Lewis

Most weekends in September, Lewis and Kevin have gone on at least one special father-son outing, leaving me at home to work on my to-do-before-baby list. They've been to the zoo quite a few times, and today they went to the Science Center. Usually when you ask Lewis what he wants to do, his answers are, 'Is the zoo open?' or 'Is the bouncy house open?' :) A simple man.

Meanwhile, I've been working on getting the baby's room and stuff (e.g. clothing) together, small home improvement projects, painting the master bath (only 18+ months after buying the paint), etc. Important, nesting-type things because, heaven forbid, the baby would come into this world with a splotchy bathroom wall. :)

 Wait, I'm wearing a blue shirt...

 ...and you're wearing a blue shirt!

We are twins! :)

(heading to the zoo)

 Jaguar

Lewis has apparently warmed up to the idea. We were both so spooked one time by his roar, so we tend to just cruise by without slowing down to see him.

 One tired Lew on the carousel

Different day, different trip to the zoo:

 On the train

 Found the baby goat (again)

Different trip/different weekend...speaking of babies, this trip was the debut weekend for the baby boy hippo who was born last month:

 He is down in the water (in the shadow), to the right of his mama's hip. It's hard to see him, but you can kind of maybe see the size difference between mama and baby. I think he was 18 lbs. at birth, and I'm not sure what he's up to now.

 Here, he has moved back into the sun, while his mama is still in the shadow.

 I'm not sure where they are sitting here, but they sure are cute! :)

You're turning violet, Violet!

The big Halloween party is at the zoo all of October, so they were able to see some of the decorations (without having to deal with the crowds at the actual Halloween party).

Kevin says he plans to take Lewis and the new baby to the zoo, solo, sometime, so I'm curious to see how that goes! Not at first, of course--we'll have to see what kind of weather we have this winter.

Here's a picture from the Science Center this morning. I had plans with Kate for breakfast, so the guys went to play and to see a 3D movie about dinosaurs.

Lewis + popcorn = love