The Cat and The Hat Day at the Zoo

We had such a fun fun day today:) When word got out that the Cat from Cat and The Hat was going to be at the Zoo….we knew we had to go!

Boys will be Boys and Pull the Cats Tale…Even the Cat and the Hat!!!

The kids were fortunate enough to be able to participate in a free screening of a new show The Cat In The Hat Knows a Lot About That! on PBS. It was advertised they would receive a goody bag for participating. The were each given a free hardback Dr. Seuss book. What am amazing “goody!” The ladies were even kind enough to make sure my 3 kids all got different books. They LOVED them…and they came in quite handy later when we were waiting for the monorail ride around the Zoo.

We bought a Zoo membership earlier this year when they were on sale for $69 I think.

If we had bought individual tickets today our trip would have been $100 including parking, monorail, and our carrousel rides. Today is our 4th or 5th visit since buying our membership.

One of the great things about a membership is being able to go to something new each time instead of feeling the rush to do it all at once.

Today we visited the bird sanctuary for the first time!

And of course….crawled in the Spider Web!

Zoo Week

Yesterday, I took the kids to the Zoo for the monthly “FBC-Dallas Moms Group” time. It is so much fun getting together with other moms and let our kids play and learn together. A friend of mine told me recently that her son took a girl to the prom that he met when they were 2 years old. Its so funny to think that far ahead in my kids lives, but I am told it will be here tomorrow.

I have a bunch more Zoo Activities that we didn’t get to this week, because my girl has been sick this week. But here are a few of the “Z” activities that we did this week.

These are a few activities from the Letter of the Day section of

http://confessionsofahomeschooler.blogspot.com/

(note the special monkey scissors!)

I attempted to make the kids a Zoo Animals Sensory Tub, but I needed more rice, beans, pasta. They still had fun.

Then, the actual Zoo Day arrived. We only played in the children’s Zoo this time, but will go back soon to see more animals. I had a big event that night and I didn’t plan well as far as timing went.

Here are a few shots from our day at the zoo.

Then…..I went From

TO

in 2 hours…..

1:15 pm leave the Zoo

2pm arrive back home, put kids down for nap, shower, get dressed

3pm, call babysitter and ask her to bring blow dryer because I can’t find mine.

3:15 Leave fully dressed and drive back downtown

4pm..arrive at hotel for an After 5 Evening…..wow