boo at the zoo 2011

I have taken my kids to Boo at the Zoo pretty much every year that I was their nanny and I claimed it as my thing to do with them even now.  I got to pick them up from school, which I LOVE to do.  Mr. Happy squeals and ruuuns straight for me and jumps in my arms and bear hugs me and smothers me in kisses every time!  :)  Then we headed straight for their house so we could get costumes and makeup on and be ready to meet our friends.

This year I had...

Little Miss Giggles, the pirate.

Mr. Happy, Count Dracula.

(He was this when he was two...which I might have to find a picture of here in a minute...)

And Little Miss Sunshine, Cleopatra.

There always has to be one silly picture when LMG is around...!  :)

So. Beautiful!

Then we were off to the zoo!  Where we met...

Jonathan the firefighter!

And my baby Madison...isn't she just one of the cutest things EVER???  :)

This is a great place for people watching while we waited for Leah and family to get there!  My kids asked me if Miss Shannon or Miss Leah were going to dress up and we decided that if anyone were to dress up, it would be Leah. 

We were right!!  :)  So fun!  Aiden told mommy he wanted to be a green bean...so she made him a green bean costume! lol.  And Anniebug was an Anniebug!

After walking through the candy stations, the carousel is our favorite stop.  It goes backwards for Boo at the Zoo!

I helped push Madison's stroller and this is how Mr. Happy walked pretty much the entire time I did.  :) We watched a dance performance and I held him so he could see over all the tall people and he watched the entire dance cheek to cheek with me.  He loves and misses his Kiki.  :)

Oh my goodness this is LMG to a T!  :)  Love her happy smile!  This was our annual after-boo-at-the-zoo stop at McD's.

We went home and everyone crawled into bed and was asleep in minutes...LMG didn't even make it through the bedtime story or goodnight prayers.  :)  Mr. Happy was even too sleepy for his favorite lullaby but still wanted me to snuggle next to him while he fell asleep.  

I think I'll be back with them in a couple weeks for an entire weekend and I can't wait!