Forts and Frogs..

We have had a busy, busy week! This past weekend, the boys and Mike had an amazing opportunity to go to the Eufala Athenaeum (over $13 million worth of first edition books, civil war documents, and other cool documents signed by different Presidents), spend the night on the USS Alabama, and tour Ft. Morgan and Ft. Gaines. It was an exhausting, but very fun weekend for them...cool Dad/son time! Because the boys are doing a research project on it to present to our cover school, I told Mike "Please, please take pictures!!"...he did...over 100!?? Hopefully, this is the only picture we will ever have of the boys in jail. The girls and I hit the zoo while they were gone. I thought Abby would go crazy with all of the animals there (she is a huge animal fan)...but she wasn't too impressed with anything EXCEPT the monkeys - she LOVED them!! It was so much fun to watch her laugh and scream at the monkeys and gorilla. The zoo was insanely busy because it was spring break here...it was like Disney World on a smaller scale. Did I mention that we are potty training Maggie? So, imagine me with a double stroller, standing in quite a few bathroom lines so that we didn't have any accidents - that was fun. Unfortunately, I don't have any pictures to post because I had to borrow a camera (mine was being abused, I mean used, by the boys at the time :-)

Today, we went to a family's home to learn about running a business and tadpoles (I know, I know...2 very different things...I mean, who would have thought you could make money mailing tadpoles?). They run "Ribbits Galore" - shipping tadpoles to kids who have habitats to put their little tadpoles in and watch them grow into frogs. The husband/wife team also have their own toy company, so the kids were able to learn about how to take an "idea" and turn it into a "product". It was pretty amazing. The kids had a GREAT time, but of course, we had to come home with 3 tadpoles of our own...."Yoda, Princess, and R2". Hopefully, they will live longer than a week.