I noticed that this in my 100th post, I am surprised that I have actually kept up with this blog! I mentioned earlier in the summer about taking Wyatt to the zoo, well Derek turned it into a 3 day vacation to Omaha. I can't say no to him when he actually gets time off the farm so off we went! Omaha is only about 1 1/2 hour drive from our house so it was an easy drive. I have only been in Nebraska once or twice, and that was to eat dinner in Rulo.
Wyatt and I at the giraffe, ostrich and penguin exhibit. (Do these three species live together in nature?
hmmmm....)
A very tired Wyatt woke up in time to ride a train through the zoo, those are wallabies in the background (this picture is for Derek's sister and her family who live in Sydney!)
In the petting zoo at the zoo the only animals they had to pet were goats. Wyatt was carrying bits of hay over to this nanny goat for her to eat. Wyatt loves to feed our dog and cats at home too. Sometimes he feeds the inside cats so much there is a huge pile of food in the bowl and all over the floor.
Omaha has a pedestrian bridge that goes over the Missouri River, so we walked over to Iowa and back. Wyatt insisted on pushing his own stroller for a bit.
The Children's Museum had a traveling exhibit that was Sesame Street characters and teaching about body parts. The entrance to the exhibit looked like the show set. Wyatt loves Sesame Street (especially Elmo) so we thought it would be fun for him.
"
Weeee-
oooooo,
weeee-
oooo" Wyatt played in this old fire truck at the Children's Museum and that is his noise for firetrucks.
Oh, watch out Daddy! I took this of Wyatt doing the "mad-flop". Those of you with toddlers knows this move well, they get mad and drop like dead-weight to the floor. Good thing Derek is used to carrying buckets of feed, I let him take care of this tantrum.
There was a ball machine at this museum that entertained Wyatt for about an hour! I told Derek it was worth the money to pay for this place, Wyatt was
soooooo tired when we left he barely made it through lunch. He took a great nap this afternoon (and so did I!)
The last day we went to their Union Station and they have a train
museum. Since Wyatt really likes "
choo-
choo's" He was in heaven all morning - and slept all the way back home!
Our friend Allsion Schweiser turned 30 this weekend. Her husband Cory planned a surprise party for her at the orchard their family owns. I think she was surprised, but she snuck up on everyone while we were hanging out. Whoops! Her son Cole is making sure the icing is edible.
Grandpa Steve Schweiser made train from wood for the kids to play on. Here are Wyatt and Cole in windows. They had a great time on all the playground stuff there!
Greg Baumann and Madison, she was hungry!
Derek was really impressed that Wyatt could hold on to the monkey bars and hang for a long time! He made me come watch Wyatt do it.
Just a funny picture from Sunday afternoon.
