Jan. 18, 2006

7:00 Drop-off. Adam was still asleep, so I left Ariel in the living room. And then I had an unheard of 15 minutes when all three kids were asleep. I was able to attend to such personal hygiene activities such as drying my hair. Alex was up by 7:15 and Adam by 7:30. And Ariel kept sleeping, so I had a very productive morning. I made breakfast, cleaned up after breakfast, got a load of laundry in the dryer and our lunches made.

9:20 Ariel finally woke up. She took a quick full 3 oz bottle.

9:40 Left for the Denver Aquarium. Ariel was awake and not screaming in the car. Yay!

10:10 Arrive at the Denver Aqarium. We've never been before, so we were very excited. Part of the reason we went is because when we were at the Butterfly Pavillion, Alex was looking for sharks in the 40 gallon tanks and the koi pond. And we found sharks:



Adam thought the tanks were pretty cool too:





Some parts of the aquarium were too loud and too dark for the boys, so we had to hurry though.



11:45 We had lunch and Ariel woke up and took a full 3 oz bottle. Then we went back to look at the big shark tank, which was too dark to get good pictures.

12:30 Before leaving, I changed a poopy diaper

And Ariel has the disease that we call eye-boogers around here. I've been using a folk remedy that worked on Adam a few times - a cotton ball with some breastmilk on it. But Becky, you should probably get it checked out.





Enlarged to show gooey detail:



12:35 Leaving the parking lot, I had a dilema. Parking was $6.00, cash or check. I had $2.57 cash, no checks and credit cards. So I told that to the parking attendent, and also offered 1 or more children as collateral. Luckily, I just had to sign my parking stub and I was let through. Whew, I still have all 3 kids!

1:00 Get home. Ariel was on/off napping in the carseat.

2:00 Crissy stopped by real quick, Ariel woke up so Crissy wanted to hold her.

2;15 Full 3 oz bottle.





2:45 Back in the Bjorn.

3:00 Adam was needing me, so I swaddled Ariel and put her down, but she was on to me and woke up. Or she had to poop. Not sure which.

3:15 Change poopy diaper. Back in the Bjorn.

4:20 Pick up.