U-N-C-L-E

R-A-N-D-Y

The kids love my brother more than any of my other siblings...Shhh don't tell them.

Don't worry they don't read my blog. hahah

Who could blame them.  He is pretty great and he is so amazing with them. 

The zoo was pretty bare, and that's my favorite. 

 I heard lots of screaming and laughing.  Nothing out of the ordinary when my brother's with us.  I turn around and missed wheelbarrow races. 

My brother asked to go to the bird house and we were happy to oblige. 

I've said this before, but here's a hint for a future post. 

 I'm so proud of my brave girls, petting an alligator.  No hesitation. 

 Pumpkin asked me to take a picture of the wolf's nose. 

Ok so, when we were in the wolf den there was only one family in there.  

The mom was on the ground playing with her baby and her other two kids were crawling around.

She had a thick accent so nosey me, asked where she was from.

We talked about montessori, parks, etc etc.

Out kids were having a BLAST. It turns out her kids were the same age as my kids. 

As we were talking Randy picked up her son and started "hulk smashing him" I can't explain it.  It was funny, but it was a strangers kid (it would be totally acceptable if he knew the kids).  I was waiting for her reaction and there was none so we moved on.  We were in there for at least an hour.  

When I tried wrangling up my kids, her son ran up to me and asked if he could see the bears with us. Again, I felt uncomfortable because I didn't know this kid and didn't know how his mom would react.   I said, "of course, but you need to ask your mom"

She said yes. and her kids started chanting "UNCLE RANDY" along with my kids. 

They just kept saying it over and over again.  It was the most adorable thing. 

We walked the rest of the zoo together, at least for another 2 hours, until the zoo closed. 

I wish we would have exchanged numbers.  Her kids were so well behaved. They loved my kids.  I loved their mom and her super chill parenting style. We would have been fast friends. 

Well I guess we were fast friends.