February 26, 2021 - Friday (144/365)
We went to the zoo today! We expected it to be fun, and it was eventually, but it started out really rough. First, the weather was nothing like what it was predicted to be. Rather than 50 and sunny, it was 40 and cloudy. This might have helped with the crowds, but really amped up the whining. Second, we realized that we forgot Ollie's coat as soon as we parked at the zoo 🤦. We had to turn around, go home, get the coat, and come back again. After an hour in the car, we finally get back to the zoo, park, go in and get to the first exhibit, and Ruby suddenly has to pee so badly that she thinks she's going to go in her pants. Of course, we no longer carry a change of clothes for her, so Ben runs her to the restroom as fast as he can. By the time he gets back, he's hungry and grumpy, Ruby has been continuously hungry and grumpy since we got her from school, and everyone is on edge. Also, Ollie is in a very independent stage with walking and refused to ride in the stroller, so we were walking at a snails pace for most of the time...or listening to her scream and struggle to get out of the stroller when we forced her in there for longer parts of the walk. I know that these days are fleeting, but man. I don't know if I'm going to look back and miss the days when we couldn't rely on the kids to tell us ahead of time when they had to pee or when they screamed at us in public because we wanted them to walk a little faster.
Here is a terrible photo from today that I shot on my iPhone. I didn't want to bring my camera, because there are plenty of times when we want to leave the stroller behind and I didn't want to lug it around everywhere.
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