We had quite a day today celebrating Adam’s 3rd birthday. We started it with a trip to the zoo with some friends.

Luke had to taste test the crackers we bought to feed the animals (I checked beforehand and they were just rye crackers, perfectly safe for human consumption).

Luke decided they didn’t taste that great though and gladly shared them with the goats.

Adam preferred to feed the deer.

After the crackers were gone, Aunt Stacy and Adam checked out the fish.

We visited the goat maternity ward again today.

The poor goats were tormented by Luke. His favorite thing to do is pull their ears.

It doesn’t matter if they are big or little – goats don’t like it when you pull their ears.

Luke ended up getting kicked by one baby goat that was trying to get away from him. Luke wasn’t fazed at all and immediately grabbed the poor baby’s ear again.

Adam, in his advanced age, is much kinder to our four-legged friends.

10 points if you can guess where Aunt Stacy and Uncle Robbie went on their honeymoon.

Monday night I ran out to do some shopping when Dave got home from work. When I got home I parked in the driveway. It was raining and the kids were playing in the garage. Adam was being really nice to Luke and shared his car with him.

He even offered, out of the kindness of his heart I am sure, to push him around the garage.

He took him right to the doorway of the garage and then pushed him out in to the rain.

I think we’ll leave that little incident off of his application for Big Brother of the Year.

I left my car outside when we went in for dinner and planned on moving it in the garage after we ate.

A few minutes later the hail started.

Yeah, that would be a quarter in Dave’s hand next to a piece of hail. Once it started Adam and I sat in lawn chairs in the (vehicleless) garage (no way I was going out in that hail to move my car). He was amazed that there was ice falling from the sky, and even more so that I let him eat some of it.

Looks like somebaby is tired of Daddy playing XBox (and no, it wasn’t me that threw the remote in the potty – that’s all Luke).

We’ve had a lot going on around here lately. The biggest news to share is that my sister got married last weekend!

The boys and I spent the week prior to the wedding out at my parents to help with the last minute wedding details.

Adam was the ring sign bearer. I wasn’t sure if he would actually walk down the aisle alone, in a church full of people he didn’t know, but he did. He turned around and ran back up the aisle at the end, but that’s alright.  And he did it all without wearing shoes.

I didn’t really take any pictures of my own, so I stole these three from others. I’ll post more once Stacy and Rob get the professional ones back from their photographer.

Hopefully right now they are busy enjoying their honeymoon in Hawaii. I am so happy for them both (and a little jealous too).

Last week we visited a new (to us) playground near our house. It is closer than the one we normally go to and was a lot nicer too.  Adam was a big fan of the rolling slide.

And Luke loved his comfy swing.

The children’s zoo we visited on Monday also had a great play area for the kids. Adam jumped right in to the ball pit. Luke wasn’t so sure about it though.

I may have given Luke a little push to help him make up his mind.

Adam was all over the playground. He mastered the cargo net in no time at all.

He loved the big slide, “green is my favor-rite clolor!”

I’d bet I’m not the only one looking forward to our next visit.

On Monday we took the boys to the children’s zoo near our house. We got there at just the right time, the goat “maternity ward” was open so we were able to spend some time with the cutest little baby goats.

Adam was very gentle while petting the goats.

Luke kept trying to grab their faces.

Baby goats don’t really like having their faces grabbed.

Luke learned that the hard way.

Adam tried to show Luke the proper way to pet a goat (Tip: Stand to the side to avoid headbutting).

They had other animals there too. I was a big fan of this silly looking guy.

Luke liked the deer.

They also had several tortoises and hares – no races that we saw though.

There were areas where you could feed some of the animals. Adam wasn’t interested in that at all; he stuck to Luke feeding.

The Duke had his 12 month well child visit today. He ended up with three shots (all of which burned, according to the nurse) and a trip to the lab for them to check for lead. The poor kid was not impressed. This picture was taken prior to Luke being used as a pin cushion, you can imagine the mood he was in afterwards.

And I did figure out how Luke measures up to Adam at this age. Luke is starting to pull ahead, Adam was only 20 lbs 12 oz and 28.5 inches tall. I’ve been warning Adam to be nicer to Luke because someday Luke will be bigger. I don’t think he believes me.

For now Luke is still my little guy though. He’s warm and cranky, I am sure it has a lot to do with the shots. So we are going to go find some tylenol and snuggle in the air conditioning.