"I'll just busy myself in this cabinet."

Not much time to blog tonight. We still have a lot to do to prepare for Abbie’s birthday party in two days, and we accomplished very few preparations today because we spent most of it on a visit to the Omaha zoo. We had fun, but I want to devote a proper posting to our day when I have more time, hopefully tomorrow because I always have more time tomorrow. To whet your appetite, here’s a picture of the most common thing we saw today:



Lines! Lines everywhere! This line is at the concession stand where we wanted to have lunch but gave up after waiting for about 20 minutes. It turns out half of a bag of animal crackers makes an adequate lunch when you’re sick of waiting.

Here’s a quick non-zoo Abbie story. Abbie loves playing with the kitchen cupboards. The game she usually plays is Throw Everything Within Reach on the Floor. This is a complicated game that involves grabbing objects AND throwing them onto the floor, resulting in a pile of resealable plastic food containers and lids suitable for chasing across the kitchen floor, or possibly tripping daddy. Tonight she got stayed with the step of opening the cabinet door. For some reason, she deemed watching herself open and close the cabinet door to be high entertainment. She would open the door, and turn her head to look at the door, and then close the door, and turn her head to look at the door again. She would then repeat the process, moving the door faster and faster. Her head turning kept the pace at first, but soon she just started moving both hand and head as fast as they could go. So the door went back and forth at one speed, while the head flipped back and forth at a much faster speed. Soon she realized that the two were not moving in synch, and returned to moving both at a slow but increasing speed. This cycle repeated a few times until Abbie, possibly being incredibly dizzy, gave up. Ellie just called her our Exorcist baby.