Mother's Day 2010

My boyfriend is amazing. He is such a great daddy, but he spoils me rotten too! Early in the morning, I think it was around 7 AM, Caira woke up; she was freezing! Chris got her out of bed and laid her down between us. Everyone went back to sleep.

I heard something and opened my eyes. Chris walks out of the closet, he is fully dresses. "Where are you going? Don't leave me!" "........I'm going....... to .. ge breakfast" He was clearly think of something else to say, but what else could he be doing on a Sunday morning! "Why? We need to finish those sausages" (LOL we use half a pack of sausages each weekend morning) "But it's Mother's Day.." I smiled. Oh yeah.. it's Mother's Day.. "OK. Did you order yet?"

Cain woke up and Chris got him out of bed, and put him in bed with Caira and I. Chris asked me what I wanted to do today. I didn't know. I had kinda figured we would go to Dayton to see his mom and grandmother. He said he planned on taking us to the zoo. YAAAAAAAYYY THE ZOOOOOOOO!!
I had been wanting to go for MONTHS! Since last summer, really lol.

Chris went to get breakfast from Bob Evans, and I called my mom. She was home alone, which I thought was kinda sad, but she sounded OK now (apparently she had been crying most of the morning 'cause her kids don't love her. Oh, mothers.)

I walk into the living room, carrying Caira on one arm/hip, her bottle in my free hand. Cain is running ahead of me, screaming with excitement. (He doens'nt like being "'trapped" in our bedroom very long, he'd much rather run around and get into stuff he's not supposed to) I walk over to the dinding table to put Caira down in her bouncy chair, so we can eat our precious Bob Evans. LOL.
There's a beautiful bouquet on the table, accompanied by a card. I opened the envelope and started reading, but quickly slid it back in the envelope. "I'm not gonna read it right now, you're just trying to make me cry!" My boyfriend is so sweet, you have no idea. I love it when he buys me flowers. It makes me feel all girlfriend-boyfriend. lol. He always picks really nice ones too. :) The cutest part about the flowers, however, is that he bought them in a vase, not just flowers that he had to cut and put in a vase himself. Most women would probably like the latter better, more effort and what not, but I thought it was cute, 'cause I told him a week or 2 ago that I wanted to start a vase collection since I couldn't have flowers and plants on our balcony. He is very attentive.

(I'll update it with a better picture later)

After breakfast everyone got ready and we headed for the Columbus Zoo. We got there a little bit before 3PM (LOL). It was busy in the parking lot, but not too bad. We found a decent parking spot, and loaded the babies into the stroller.
We waited in line for about 2 minutes, and only paid for one ticket- Cain and Caira are both free since they're under 2 years old, and I was free as a Mother's Day special, with the purchase of any other ticket. NICE.

We had so much fun at the Zoo. Chris loves to go, and I hadn't been in probably 10 years. I was excited to take Cain, 'cause I was sure he would love it.
He enjoyed looking at the fish and other animals in the aquarium, but everything else was too far away or sat too still for him to really see. He would look at the animal, and be distracted by something. He liked it if we would point and make the sound, but I think he was a little too young still. Caira liked the "Shores" too, we sat on the far side of the room and looked at the aquarium as a whole. Bright blue background with all the moving objects and brightly colored spots was perfect for her. She sat in the stroller and stared until she feel asleep.

We got home around 7PM, after we went through the Burger King drive through. Cain played with his Iron Man 2 figurine while munching on his fries and chicken. He was so excited. I guess he's at that "doll" age. He LOVED it. We now know what to get him for his birthday. lol.

I had such a wonderful day, and we spent it just the way we wanted to. At the Zoo. :)
Next weekend we'll go to Dayton and celebrate Mother's Day with Nana, Saundra and Great Grandmother.