Who would have thought?!?!?!

Not me that is for sure. Today the kids had the day off from school in rememberance of Martin Luther King Jr. My neighbor and I decided that since it was going to be near 80 degrees we should go and do something fun.

We started by heading to Chick Filet. With her three kids and my six we were nearly the entire lunch population at the restaurant. Now, I am used to being stopped and questioned by good intentioned people, however today was a bit different. Of course, people wanted to know if they were ALL min. But luckily my response today was , " No, only six of them." Which seemed so "normal" to me. However, the look of complete and utter shock on people's faces when they reaffirmed my answer of "only six" made me laugh. I guess that is my "normal".

Next, we were off to the Tucson Zoo. After living here for a year and a half, we figured it was about time. It was small enough that it worked okay with only two adults to nine kids. LOL. Actually, the kids all did great and had a great time.

When we were in Utah last year, my sister in law and I took the quads and her two kids to the zoo. (Tanner and Hunter were camping with the grandparents.) Just as we got to the elephant exhibit they decided to do their "potty business". So naturally that stuck with the kids. You would have thought that was the only thing they saw that entire day. As soon as we got in the gate today they wanted to head off to the elephants to see if we could see it again. Aren't kids great?!?!?!?

Well it would have been nice if this was the end of the story.........But, that was not to be our luck today. We came home and "rested" and enjoyed snuggle time on the couch while watching a movie. We had just finished cleaning up and had headed into make dinner, play outside, and get our playstation reward time. Hunter and Bryan and done a great job of cleaning up the downstairs and were outside playing while the others finished up. I heard the horrible sound of true pain as Hunter came running in the house. As a parent you get used to the many different types of cries, and hollers, and I knew this one was not a good one. :<

Yes, he did it again. He was playing on the monkey bars and apparently one of them has worked a little loose. As he went to grab it, it was slippery and it moved. He fell and caught himself wrong. Since he has just recovered from a broken arm, I knew he knew what it felt like. So I called my neighbor and she came and sat with the kids while we headed off to the ER. Five hours later we arrived home. Good little man. He has a very high tolerance for pain and was charming all the nurses. The good news....... it is his left arm this time instead of the right, so it should not affect his school work, and they did not have to put him to sleep to set it. I will call our "favorite" ortho doctor tomorrow and hopefully we will have a "true" cast on it by Friday. But how do you tell the karate instructor that after just starting back again that we are going to have to take another six weeks off?

Perhaps I should write a book. This is stuff you honestly cannot make up. However, we did have a great day and we survived!!! Sleep well my friends. :>