Dates

Kate has been begging me to take her back to the American Girl Bistro for dinner. She had some Christmas money that she was willing to spend to eat there, but Kyle thought that was mean to make her use her money so he told me just to go on a mommy/daughter date. So we did. She was in heaven, got the cheesey mac and cheese and I got the tomato soup and grilled cheese on sourdough (totally random for me to get that, but it was cheap and nothing else sounded good and it actually was really good!). There was an extravagant birthday party going on while we were there and this girl got a leap pad, tons of AG stuff and other fancy things. Kate was watching the party the whole time. I made her talk with me and we answered some questions they have in the pink box. After dinner, we walked around the store and Kate decided to spend her Christmas money on getting her dolls ears pierced and some earrings.

Saturday was gorgeous and we went to the Zoo. I only took pictures of the kids with the penguins and those aren't even our favorite. Preston likes the elephants, I like the siamangs (loud monkeys), Kate likes the play areas and Lindsey and Kyle are indifferent. ;)

A cute story about Preston. He was outside and said to my neighbor who has a dog, "you like dogs, Darbi?"

Darbi says, "Yeah, do you like dogs?"

Preston says, "no, I like elephants." And he said it like 'duh?'.

Lindsey was trying to catch the penguin as it swam by. I thought it was adorable. She is such a fun girl and makes us all laugh.

Then Kyle and I were able to get away for a quick dinner date that night to PF Chang's while a young woman babysat for us as a service. We ate our yummy food, did a little bit of shopping and got home and put the kids to bed.