We had some good times this weekend. The Zombie hunt was quite the hit as we hit the Mall for a little shopping excursion. Whitney's mission was to find some new clothes for work. My mission was to thoroughly distract and occupy the kids to free up Whitney to successfully complete her mission. So, we're strolling through the department store and I notice that the sonic kids meal toys my kids had just received had been turned into ray guns and were being fired at objects all over the store and the kids were shooting the 'zombies' aka manicans all over the store. So this evolved into a very elaborate game where they were shooting the white ones, green ones, silver ones, black ones, brown ones, the 'cupcake' head ones, the ring heads, the headless zombies, the kid zombies, etc. Then every time we would pass a picture of a person modeling some clothes one of the kids would ask the picture for a 'clue' on our zombie hunt and they would give us the next clue. Eventually it turned into the quest for the zombie with the golden head (which we are still yet to find). Other features were the mirrors all over the store were the ray gun refueling stations and various colors gave you extra super powers like flying, karate abilities (which Emily demonstrated on one of the clothing racks to Mom's dismay), blending or camouflaging, invisiblity and hot lava-proof shoes. The game did get so out of hand that Mommy scolded all of us (including Dad).
The Zombie Hunters!
A Typical Headless Zombie
Today we caught a lizard and put it in the kids bug catcher. Emily attempted to feed it a snail but the lizard seemed uninterested. After we finally let it out Emily discovered one of life's little lessons: never try and catch a lizard by the tail. Well she attempted to grab the little guy by the tail and sure enough that tail popped right off. She then was so mesmorized by this that she made me create a display for the tail (a white plastic cup with a little sign 'lizard tail' that was taped on with masking tape). We then enjoyed some time on the back porch as Emily and Joshua each explained a typical day at their school while we looked at a campus map that Emily had made. We then made some popcorn and cinnamon popcorn and watched a movie together.
