as planned, the wirtz girls came for breakfast. bright and early at nine. which was, like, six for me. and i think my mom and i gabbed until after midnight. ah, but sleep wasn't the point; it wasn't even factored into this visit. as it went, each night we didn't say good night until after 2.
we didn't have much time to visit and as it worked out, they didn't either, so a quick play date, gab session and breakfast feast was perfect. momma d whipped up some scrambled eggs, crispy bacon, english muffin toast (which i CRAVE since i can't buy it here!) and yummy homemade muffins that dylan wouldn't let me eat without her help. oh, and lots of orange juice. yum-mo. maybe i'll fix breakfast for dinner tonight...
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i just had a flash of us in 10th grade...
after breakfast, we made our way to the zoo, where we met up with my brother matt. while he wasn't as keen on running around the zoo with us, averee was all about it. (ellie was back at home, snoozin.)
the aquarium was dylan's favorite area. i managed to snap a few pictures, but most of the time, i was running back and forth from the dolphin tank to the tank holding the sharks and other fishies. camera slung on my back, i was darting and dodging 'scuse me, oh, sorry, 'scuse me, 'scuse her!
at one point, there was this tiny little crevice of dolphin tank, exposed between strange man's legs. as i'm watching my daughter run toward this big ass tank with plenty of open room - nope! - she goes right for that opening, alarming strange man and strange woman. thankfully, they HE had a sense of humor about it.
mark and dyl, checkin out the dolphins
cousin averee with dyl at the penguin exhibit
many pictures have been snapped on this turtle
super-sweet girl
pink lovely
peek!
hello, little asian otter!
super brave...
ok, maybe not...
ha.
they had so much fun together!
i swear!
oh, ok!
she just wanted to rock herself.
after the zoo, dyl and i met up with papa frank and sue. while waiting for them, dylan was able to catch a quick snooze, which naturally, i captured. oh, she fought this nap. hard! the amount of times she had to put her thumb in her mouth (and let's not forget the simultaneous ear-rubbing) were in the 20s. this was merely a fraction of the entire series.
head starts to fall,
quick, jolt back up,
hand falls, thumb falls,
head falls,
ohhh, right back up.
soothing, soothing
hand falls, thumb starts sliiiiiipping,
look! almost out of her mouf!
aaand...
CRASH.
we have zzzz's.
after dylan's 20-minute siesta, we scarfed some chipotle, and then headed out the the mall - dylan was in need of her own build-a-bear experience. jack and i did the b-a-b stuffing right before Christmas, and since then, dylan has been attempting daily kidnappings on jack's mr. weinie, (aren't you glad there's a mr. in between those two words?!) a dachshund, naturally. the girl's been obsessing over it. times were at a real low when jack looked up to me one afternoon, with those sweet brown, tear drop eyes, mama, where'd MY mista weinie go? as dylan had become the new owner by way of screams and yanking. so, she needed her own weinie.
when we entered b-a-b, it took me a while to take in all that this store had to offer. back home, our store is the size of a, well, a normal mall store. but, this b-a-b at mall of america?! it's like 3 stores, with 1,000 choices (ok, maybe 30) of animals to stuff. ours had 15 choices - maybe. and even with all her options, when dylan saw what would become her weinie, she gasped and reached out for it with a smile smudged ear to ear. she brought it to her chest and gave it a big ol' hug. then, realizing it was all floppy, she snuggled it even tighter.
when we got closer to the stuffing "machine," there was a booth to pick out a song. weeee! while dyl's not a huge justin bieber fan (there were, like, 5+ bieber songs), she does love her some sugarland and wouldn't you know it - her fav sugarland song stuck like glue was an option. yes, pwease!
and because no b-a-b experience is complete without an outfit (really?), we picked out a denim dress with red gingham ruffles. it's adorable. just. like. dylan. [another blog and pictures on this weinie topic in a later post.]
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