Friday, April 22, 2011

The Zoo

My mom & I thought it would be fun to take my 3 boys, and my 11 year old cousin to the Jacksonville zoo one day during spring break. We pull up to the zoo after an hour car ride, and I reach in Philip's diaper bag to get his bottle so I can feed him before we go in, and I realize that there were no bottles or any formula anywhere to be found in the car.


So, I drop off my mom & the 3 older boys, and I go searching for a Walmart or a Target in an unfamiliar town. After missing the exit, and getting turned around, I eventually find a Publix. Well, they didn't carry our formula or our bottles...but at this point, it's about an hour after he should have eaten already, so I just grab some random bottles & formula and am praying that it all works out. I run to the bathroom in Publix to sterilize the new bottles (yeah, when I say 'sterilize', I actually mean I just got to run them under some lukewarm water & pray that we don't catch some random disease that comes from unclean bottles!) Ugh, I cringe at what I had to do. But, wouldn't you know, that sweet baby didn't even notice! He drank that new formula, with the cold water from my cooler, in the random new bottle & didn't even bat an eye! I'm telling you, God is good & gave me a great, laid back baby! Hallelujah!

We eventually got back to the zoo around lunchtime & had a great day! Well, other than the 2nd bottle I gave him had a torn nipple, so I had to go back to the car & get the dirty one that he drank out of at Publix. Yeah, I just rinsed it off in the parking lot with a bottle of water & again prayed we didn't catch something! (yes, please run out & get my "mother of the year" award! I am clearly a candidate!)


Anyways...here are the pictures! (I would have taken more, but keeping up with 4 boys is actually a lot like work! We did have such a great time! We even stayed until it closed!


The dinosaur exhibit was fun. We walked by some that even spit water. I love how Charlie is holding the map..he was our junior navigator of the day. Their favorite part of the day was feeding the giraffes & riding the carousel. I, however, have no pictures of this, but we made some great memories together!

1 comment:

Clh03uga said...

Sterilize??? You have 3 kids right? :) I thought you only sterilize for the first one...ha ha. Did I miss this chapter in the owner's manual? I could have sworn it was only required for #1. :-)