First signs of Spring

Today was beautiful. It was in the mid 70's, and wonderful. We decided last night we would go to the Nashville zoo this morning knowing it was supposed to be nice. So to bribe Hutson a little (wrong I know) we told him if he was good last night and went to bed like a good boy we would go to the zoo when we woke up. Well all night we heard about the wions (lions), and tigers, and whippers (leopards), and the barking zebras. For those of you who don't know Zebra's really do make a barking sound like a dog. Hutson and John will get online and look up animals sounds. We were a bit disappointed that the baby tigers weren't out yet, but in a few weeks they'll be introduced at the zoo, so we'll have to go back during Spring Break. I'm glad that we decided to get a membership again, because it's a free entertainment now! We had fun though, here are a few pics....





This was really neat to see the Tigers like this....

Hutson LOVES the zoo.....

John goofing around with the timer and the hanging the camera on his back....

While at the zoo, some lady (I'm using this term loosely) exposed alot of her self to everyone in the kids play area while sitting down, and Tanisha had John laughing because she leaned over to him and said "Crack kills"....

Couple of funny stories about Hutson: When I picked him up from school yesterday, he was singing a song with the tune "Brother John" I couldn't understand the first part, but knew he was saying "I can smell red." He wanted me to sing with him too, but I told him I didn't know the words. He gave me a big sigh like "jeez mom" and very slowly told me that the words are "R E D Red, I can smell red." I about died, first cause he really could spell red, and second that he thought the word was smell. He later taught sissy the words and when she told him it was spell, he argued with her and said no it was smell!

Later in the evening as we were all lounging and enjoying our Friday evening, Hutson was down playing with his toys in the den and talking about Mommy, Daddy, his sister, his kitties, and his brother. We all looked at him and asked him who is Brother was? He gave us one of his looks like we are idiots and said "Peanut is my brother".... Well, Peanut is our little black pomeranian!
We've spent the remainder of our Saturday playing with our webcam and talking to family. We got to see Aunt Manda's baby belly (Aunt Leann wants a girl), and our cousin Katherine at Oklahoma State, and I tried my dad, but as always they weren't home. Webcams really are very cool. I'm hoping I can convince my sister-in-law to purchase one so Hutson can talk to his beloved Brooke and Nicholas.