Best Mother's Day Ever

We had a great weekend, topped off with the best Mother's Day ever yesterday. We headed down to Denver early and I ran in the Mother's Day 5k with Anne at City Park. The weather was beautiful and it was great to catch up, even if it was while running. 

James has been wanting to go to the Mammoths and Mastodons Ice Age exhibit at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, so we headed over there after my race. James was absolutely fascinated and slowly made his way through the entire exhibit, stopping to look at every display, watch every video, look at every artifact and wanted to read every single piece of information. Mac was a good sport and we only had to hussle James through the very end, when Mac had reached his museum limit. James has not stopped asking questions about the exhibit since yesterday.

Since it was such a beautiful day, we walked over to the zoo after the museum. Both boys enjoyed seeing all of the animals and riding the carousel.

James was especially excited to see the 3 lion cubs that will be leaving the zoo soon and a new Red Panda (we get the Zoo magazine, which James reads cover to cover). We walked all over trying to find the Red Panda exhibit and James finally found a zoo keeper who showed us the way. We happened to see him awake and walking around, which I guess is pretty rare, and James was beyond thrilled. I love taking James places like the museum and zoo. He is so curious and asks so many good questions. He stops at every display and wants the entire thing read to him and doesn't stop asking questions until he reaches the next exhibit. He definitely has a love of learning when it comes to animals and anything historical and I hope that it doesn't go away!

We stopped for an ice cream and couldn't find any dairy free treats for Mac so he got an old jolly rancher from the stroller. He didn't seem to mind one bit.

We headed home and hung out in the yard enjoying the perfect weather the rest of the day. Tim took the boys to the grocery store and I got to read in peace and quiet for an hour and then they came home and made me grilled pizza for dinner. James gave me a hug and told me it was one of the best days he has ever had. I have to agree, I couldn't have asked for anything more!