Sunday, May 4, 2008

Bella's Birthday and Taylor Visits Norman

Bella is one of Makenna's new friends in Norman. Her birthday party was Saturday at the Little River Zoo. It is a more rustic zoo with a petting zoo and some exotics. It is a really neat place. The kids absolutely loved it as the guide talked about all of the animals and brought out different animals for them to feed or touch.

This is a good shot of Makenna's new good friends feeding the kangaroos. They are in the same gymnastics class (except for Laney-- we met her through the gymnastics friends). From left to right it is Jake, Makenna, Chapman, Laney; and the birthday girl, Bella, has her back to us in the picture. By the end of the summer, three of the five will have baby brothers! You can see part of Jake's new baby brother's blanket right behind him. Bella's mom will have her baby in the next couple of weeks, and then, of course, we'll be the hold outs at the end of the summer. Makenna is signed up to play tennis with Chapman in June. She has been begging us to go every day since we signed her up!

Makenna was clingy to her daddy all day on Saturday. She has been "missing him when he is in Texas."

Taylor came to visit us in Norman this weekend. Makenna was so excited to see him. We had lots of fun. Saturday evening we went to Bricktown in Oklahoma City where we saw the Ranger's triple A team's baseball field and walked along the river walk.

Birthday girl Bella and Makenna loved feeding the goats.