The kids have really been having a hard time lately with their bedtime. They just haven’t been able to stay in their beds and going to sleep, it has been we have to pee, we need to read, we need to rock, and my personal favorite is when they ask me to go outside and see if a panda bear is out there. Well, my wife and I have been planning for weeks to take the boys to the zoo today and when I had gotten tired of them fighting yesterday I told them of our plans and if they didn’t stop, that we weren’t going.

Wow, was that the trick. They immediately started helping cleanup their toys, are most of their dinner and after bath, I had them in bed asleep in record time. And it was cool to hear all of the animals that they wanted to see today at the zoo.

Normally we take the kids to the aquarium to see the fish and other animals, but we had tickets from the office and thought that this would be a great family day. I remember as a kid only going to the zoo, maybe one time and that was with school, so it is really important to my wife and I that we expose the kids to as many educational opportunities as possible.

So, as I type this, it is about 30 minutes before I had hoped that tbe kids were waking up and only and since Baby A woke me up to ask if it was time to go to the zoo or not? Excited? Yeah, just a little, but since they have been to the zoo a few times already, he was asking if we could see the panda bear first and then he basically mapped out our visit.

So as I sip my coffee and we wait for my wife and Baby B to wake up, we talk about the zoo and the animals.

I love mornings like this.