Those terrible two's? Yeah, those. They are driving me crazy! Max bit, as in clamped down HARD on Lyla's arm yesterday over a bag of potato chips. And this morning when he didn't want to be buckled into his car seat? He pinched my arm, WITH HIS NAILS, even took some skin with him from the nails scratching me. Seriously! I am so nervous what is going to happen at daycare today. I warned them about his new love of violence when he is frustrated so hopefully that will keep them on high alert. I don't even know what happened that suddenly made a spark go off in his brain that says - "Hey I'm upset, lets hurt someone". We don't spank or hit him and he isn't getting hit or bit at daycare. (Well, he hasn't received any incident or accident reports to imply that he is learning that reaction there.) I realize this is partly just his stage in life but it is very, very frustrating.

OK, enough about that for now. Let's focus on the cute things instead right? We went to the Minnesota Zoo yesterday with Grammy, Auntie Rosie, Auntie Katie and cousin Lyla. Our original plans had us all driving down to southern Minnesota to go to a cabin and hang out with the extended family, but the weather down there was rainy and it got canceled so we detoured to the zoo instead.

The kids had a blast and were so cute to watch with the animals. They'd get all excited and make the cutest little faces, like here they are screaming in excitement over the monkeys.

A lot of the animals were active, I think it helps that it was cloudy and cool so the weather was perfect for strolling around like this tiger.

Or swimming like these two bears.

Rory was so good in her stroller, she mainly people watched as the animals didn't intrigue her much. But she did find a couple that she really enjoyed. Here she is watching those silly prairie dogs.

We also made it over to the farm and I took Max and Lyla in to feed the goats. That was one crazy experience!

Lastly, we were able to teach Max and Rory about the birds and the bees. They are so excited to share this information with all their friends! Haha

We had a really great time and the kids were great. We didn't eat lunch until 2:30pm and skipped afternoon naps to be there. You'd never had known outside of their tired eyes, they had so much fun! (The biting incident didn't happen until we left the zoo to have our picnic in the parking lot - so he really was good for the zoo part!)

I also have to give a big thank you to Dido as he rented a vehicle that would seat all of us for our trip. While we didn't make it to the cabin, we still had a great time at the zoo and the kids and the adults all enjoyed being able to ride together. (It was much easier to change our plans last minute when there was only one vehicle that had to make the plan change.) Thank you Dido (aka Curt)!