Taking the Scenic Route

#8 “Roooaaaarr”

Zora seems to be drawn to the dinosaurs every time we are in the waiting room at Heartsprings, and this week, when I mentioned that we need to get her a book to see what the names of dinosaurs are (because I can only remember a few from reading Jurassic Park years ago), she ran to the book cubby and pulled out a dinosaur book and began to compare them, asking me the name when she found a match. Smart cookie.

#5  “The party”

Zora hosted a party for her friends and gave them all cookies. (including the car)

I went to Towne East Mall today. It has been a while, and in my absence, they installed carpet all over the second floor. It looked good, which means it is probably pretty recent. lol. Helped a lot with the sound.

Found some good sales, although I couldn’t buy much. I went to see what was at Old Navy, but it was eerily empty to the point where I wonder if they are going out of business at this location. The few things that I saw online that I wanted were not marked down in the store, so I left with only one pair of fleece pants for Zora (boy’s fleece pants because girls are too wimpy for snow). I did find some shirts at Dillards for Zach for work. (His Hawaiian-style shirts are not working for winter for some reason) Nothing like $40-50 shirts for $11-$14. I got 3, which pretty much tapped me out so I headed home.

While away, Zach and the kids had fun. A little bit of soccer and then Zora wanted the camera.

~ Photography by Zora ~

We really need to think about getting the girl her own camera. It makes me nervous to hand over mine, but I enjoy seeing what she does.

The day after Christmas was warm and windy. Zora wanted some bubbles, so Zach went out with the kids and enjoyed the weather.

In the afternoon we discovered that Gamestop had Mario Party 8 (1 copy) and a used Wii Fit (1 copy) so Zach rushed over there, stood in an insanely long line, and made it to the front of the line with nobody else requesting the WiiFit (it was behind the counter, first come, first serve), so we got it for $80! Woo Hoo! Zane has been requesting Mario Party 8 since before it came out, and that was the whole reason he wanted the Wii (we told him we couldn’t get it unless we had a Wii to play it on). We had an older version of Mario Party for his DS, but hadn’t found a Wii game for his birthday, so at the final hour we were able to get his dream gift.

Late afternoon Robert brought his boys over to play the Wii. The had a ball boxing each other (on “Boxing Day”, how apt) and then we broke out the WiiFit and made avatars for everybody (except me…no way was I going to be weighed in front of a roomful. I did it later instead). Later in the evening Zach and Robert were boxing and had the unlikely occurance of both knocking the other person out at the exact same time. It was classic.

We have played the Wii every day, and both Zach and I have been sore from the WiiFit. Sad, but true. I wish we could have gotten it sooner (we wanted it last Christmas), but I am so glad we got it now. There is nothing in the world cuter than watching a 3yo wiggling her little tush on the balance board to make the little Mii (avatar) ski, or see her trying to do the yoga moves. Zane is really enjoying the games too, and I noticed that if he flaps, it messes up his balance (on the wiifit games) and actually saw him stopping flapping to play, even though he is still totally excited. It will be interesting to see if this helps him learn to control the flapping when he is excited.

#30 Zora the Zephyr