text-only weekend update

first of all ... there will be no pictures in this weekend update. so, if you're a picture-junkie, you'll have to go elsewhere.

now ... with that out of the way ... here's how we spent our weekend (along with accompanying rationalizations about why we couldn't/didn't take photos).

on saturday we headed to a nursery school open house. now is the time to begin applications for admission in september 2008, so we're shopping around for a place to send young jack. and the open house process is ... interesting. after mommy left the dear old theta house behind, she thought her experience with sorority rush was forever past. and it was. until the nursery school open house. it feels very much the same as sorority rush used to -- it's just that the letters of the alphabet pasted on the walls are in english, not greek.

mommy went to one last week before work, so she already knew a little bit of what to expect. and the place we went on saturday was great -- nice families, great facility, dedicated teachers, yummy pumpkin bread (that last one was a jack observation). we're not getting our heart set on anything, because like many things in our neck of the woods, admission is somewhat competitive. there are less than 10 slots for 2 year olds, and first dibs goes to siblings of kids already attending the school, residents of the neighborhood in which the nursery school is located (the one next door to ours, drat!) and then they award the rest of the slots to balance the class for gender and age.

so, we didn't take any pictures there -- we didn't want them to think we're weird. we'll wait until jack is accepted and then they'll find out eventually ...

on sunday, we "fell back," and jack celebrated by waking up at 5 a.m. i don't think he understands the concept of daylight saving time yet. but the early wake up made it no problem to get out of the house early in time for zoo class. mommy, daddy, and jack were all looking forward to it. unfortunately our teacher, miss lilly, also apparently failed to grasp the concept of daylight saving time and didn't show! so instead of class, we just walked around the zoo, visiting the sloth bears, the elephants, the pygmy hippos, tons of birds, and the small mammals. by that time, we were pooped out and ready to head home.

in this instance, there are no photos because mommy forgot the camera. i blame daylight saving time.

we'll try to make it up the rest of the week ...