It didn't take long for Emily and Maddox to settle into playing all day every day. Tough life for them to have to live with your cousin.
Maddox, Hadlee, and I went to the zoo in Des Moines one day. It was a gorgeous day for the zoo! Mid 70s and the animals were very active. The zoo is on the smaller side but a perfect size for my age kids.
Turns out goats don't like it when babies pull their ears. Who knew?
Maddox was awfully disturbed that she couldn't get any milk to come out of this fake cow's fake udder.
Maddox rode her first camel. She was a little nervous but is pretty much willing to do anything with me.
Suzy (who had a very injured shin/calf/possible stress fracture but wanted to run anyway), Jeremy, and Matthew (who ran the 1 mile race) ran a 5K mud run. Fun for them, freezing cold for the rest of us. Here they are clean and weird at the start.
And here they are dirty and not so energetically weird at the end. Despite Suzy's injury they both won 1st in their age division and Jeremy won 3rd overall and Suzy 12th among the women. So much for letting an injury slow you down.
After a few weeks at Suzy's the girls and I went to Tulsa to stay with my other sister, Jennifer, for a week plus. We spent one day at the aquarium. Hadlee loved the turtles. Right at her level!
AAAAHH! About to get attacked by a shark! Apparently it was more funny than scary.
Sisters checking out the big tank together.
What IS this thing on my head mom?? Ha!
We were in Bixby (Tulsa) when the huge tornado hit Joplin. A little too close for comfort. The next night when there were tornadoes around us we all 6 and 2 dogs spent 20 minutes in the closet. Nothing happened too close though, just extra cautious after the terrible Joplin news.
Apparently we were homeless too long or had too much fun being homeless. I'll have to make a second post.
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