June 2010 Blog Posts
The family took a trip to the Portland Zoo to try and get out of the house after a long weekend of being sick and crabby. Ashley wanted to get out of the house herself. We got there nice and early and saw animals, apes being grotesque, elephants and other animals being depraved and generally animalistic. So while we were barfing in our mouths at the motions of the elderly chimps, at least we didn’t have to fight crowds and we got nice close in parking.
Mom got Ashley a set of paints and stuff the Ikea. So they put down some cardboard and went to town. Much more than just the paper was dabbled on, but all in all it was a pretty fun exercise in messing up Mom. There were many cools paintings and even a special I Heart Daddy painting.
First she spends time making a mess, and then demands to help cleaning it up
We went with Auntie Laurel to a dirty farm filled with filthy farm animals. It was a pretty cool time. There were goats, pigs, deer and a wallaby. The wallaby didn’t know what the hell was going on (I think it was drunk) but the other animals were pretty happy to be there. Ashley rode on the ponies and confirmed the stereotype that little girls like ponies. So if anybody wants to “pony up” (zing) and help get the fund started it would be pretty groovy. Mom and Dad don’t want to participate in the horse shenanigans,...