While we went to the zoo with Addisons class my parents came up to take care of the other three kids. They wanted to do something special with them so they asked Vincent what would be something special to him to go do. He chose Giovanni's Pizza and Arcade. John, Addison, and I joined them after we got back from LA.
Addison's Kindergarten Class went to the LA Zoo yesterday for a field trip. His teacher asked John and I botht o come a long as chaperones. It was a 12 hour day with close to 80 five and six year olds but we did have fun.
Two treats in one weekend. How Sweet! Another thing with my childhood and my grandparents is that my grandparents owned and operated two Baskin Robbins Ice Cream Parlors. It was a special treat to go to one of their stores and get an ice cream cone. They had since retired and sold the ice cream stores by the time I got married and had children, but almost every holiday they give my kids gift certificates for Baskin Robbins. Unfortunately the one that was near us closed down and my parents have one there in Paso Robles so before we left town we went and got ourselves an ice cream. It was really cold outside, but my kids didn't mind!
Well, what can I say but this was an attempt at some family pictures. Kids just did not all want to cooperate.
My grandparents have a dog, but since it is just the two of them at home Sugar is not around kids, so she was not to sure what to think of my kids. She usually just sat behind the chair that my grandpa was sitting in or on the floor right under his feet and would get up and move if my kids came near her. Well, my kids discovered food was the key to her heart. My kids offered her a dog treat and she gladly came out of hiding to get something to eat!
We went to my parents again this last weekend as my paternal grandparents came down from Washington State for a visit, and we have not seen my grandfather since my brothers wedding so he hadn't seen Nicholas since he was three months and had never seen Eliza. We got there Friday evening and then on Saturday morning both my dad and grandfather went and got donuts. When I was growing up my grandpa would alway go get a box of donuts for us whenever he came to visit. Now that I have kids my dad has picked up what his dad did and buys a box of donuts when my kids are there. Well Saturday morning rolled around and my grandpa left and didn't say where he was going. About five minutes later my dad came out and he left. When they both came back they had both gone to get donuts. One brought back 2 dozen, the other 3 so needless to say we had A LOT of donuts. The kids didn't mind though, and they lasted all weekend long! When we left Sunday evening there were still some in the box!
Addison made this Abraham Lincoln hat at school and was very happy to come home and model it.
