Hug Twice

CJ’s favorite place has always been the zoo.  From the first time we took him at just shy of a year old, he had just loved everything about it.  The animals, the paths, wandering at his own pace - he has always been a fan.

And now I am experiencing the problem of being “fair” to my second child.  CJ got to do the zoo at his own pace.  Now, CJ tries to force Alexa to do the zoo at *his* pace.  A common refrain I now hear every time we are there is “I need to go *faster*”.

This weekend, for a while, at the zoo we split up.  Matt and CJ went through  the Indonesia area, while Alexa and I stayed with the ponies and watched them.  Alexa was fascinated with the ponies.  She stared at them, she reached out to them, she loved them.  Then she pulled off a shoe and chewed on that for a while.  Then we started through the Indonesia area backwards, so we would meet Matt and CJ somewhere in the middle.

It was a nice little break.  However, when i take them both myself, I have to balance the “I want to go FASTER” with Alexa’s need to stop at every turn.  So it may not be so relaxing.  Since CJ asks every day to go to the zoo, I somehow doubt we’ll be able to confine it to a weekend-only activity.

But it was nice for a day.

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