happy mother's day

mother's day weekend began with a saturday trip to the zoo with my sidekick.

i got train passes this time since he loves trains so much...and selfishly, so we didn't have to walk everywhere. why the heck is the kc zoo so spread out? brody quickly figured out that we didn't actually have to get off the train, we could just keep riding...so we did. back & forth from the front gate to australia, over & over. the train ride is simply a destination ride, you can't see many animals along the way...we could however see the elephants and he would yell 'look, mommy, it's the elephants!'...

get to the train stop in australia, full of tired tourists trying to catch a ride back to the front gate...and he yells 'look, mommy, it's the humans!'.

mother's day continues sunday morning at IHOP...it's a tiny IHOP, packed with families celebrating an early brunch with their moms. brody and i are sitting beside a table of 7- mom and dad, 3 daughters, grandma & grandpa. the family seems tense, the mom keeps nagging at her daughters...especially the middle one.

the middle one drops syrup on her shirt (of course she did, it's an IHOP), the mom starts yelling at her. brody, being the protective & still brutally honest toddler that he is, looks at the mom, points his finger and says 'you are a bad mommy!'.

oh god...do not laugh kaylen, do not laugh. the grandma puts her head down so no one can see the sly smile on her face. brody turns to me and repeats 'mommy, she is a bad mommy'.

and our mother's day ended with a trip to the emergency room after superman tried to fly.