Busy day

Today was quite the day. We went with Jonah's school to the zoo in Tyler. It is a fun little zoo and Jonah was so excited to go. We were supposed to go on Tuesday but it was raining alot so it was postponed. I'm glad we were able to go today. It was a beautiful day, sunny and 70 degrees and the zoo wasn't crowded at all. As usual, Jonah's favorite animal was the penguins. They have a neat little penguin home where you can watch the penguins swim up close. It's always Jonah's favorite when we go there. It was also a good experience to go with some of the other moms. Jonah's school encourages family involvement which is good for me because I have trouble letting Jonah go. I know when he goes to kindergarten next year, I will have a harder time with it than he will. He is growing up so fast as soaking things up like a sponge. Brian has been working on adding and subtracting with him. He is just so proud of himself when he learns new things.

Jonah also lost his first tooth tonight. He woke up Sunday morning and his tooth was wiggling. I started frieking out because he's only four and I thought it would be another year or two before they started falling out. So I called my mom and she told me to find something else to worry about because it wasn't unheard of. So now he looks so cute with a little hole in his smile and he is eagerly waiting for the tooth fairy to come tonight.

Six Flags trip

Last Saturday we went to Six Flags over in Arlington. Brian's company has a Six Flags day as a safety incentive so everyone from the company gets tickets to take their family or friends and they also provide a BBQ dinner. We spent the whole day just going on the kiddie rides. We got Jonah on a few of the small roller coasters but he never acted like it was a lot of fun. His favorite rides were the airplanes and the bumper cars.

I used to love roller coasters but now I look at them and think "no way." Jonah kept asking me if the people fell out of the coasters that go upside down or if the cars fall off. I don't think there was any way he would go on one of the big ones.

Poor Jenna just had to ride in her stroller most of the day. We tried letting her out to walk a little bit but there were just too many people. She was a pretty good sport though and even got a few little naps in. Once while we were waiting for Brian and Jonah she started giving these really cheesy grins to the guy sitting on the bench next to us. She is such a silly girl. She has always preferred men over women. At church she usually has no problem if one of the men or young men pick her up but it's a different story if it's a woman. One night Brian had the young men over to the house for a scouting activity and she was just sitting in the front room with all of them, happy as can be.

Jonah's highlight of the trip was seeing Scooby-Doo and Shaggy. He went crazy when he saw them and nearly ran off without us. Jonah is a big Scooby-Doo fan. One note about the Spider Man shirt he's wearing. His cousin, Joseph sent him this shirt and kids love it. The spider is shiny and kind of 3-D. While we were in line for one of the rides, the little girl in front of us turned around and saw his shirt and had to touch it. He even wore it to soccer practice one night and some of the kids on the team were the same way. It just looks so cool, it's hard not to touch it I guess.

So, I hope Jonah had a great time because he was so excited to go. He said he was going to tell his preschool teacher that he wouldn't be at school because he was going to Six Flags. I hope he didn't. He did miss a soccer game so I think he figured the rest of the world would just have to get by without him for a day because he was going to Six Flags. Such a funny kid.