First Zoo Visit!

We went to the Fort Worth Zoo together as a family on Saturday. Brant had so much fun looking at all the animals. His favorite part was when we took him on the train at the zoo. He got really upset though when we missed being part of the first group to go on the train because there was no room for his stroller. He was very excited once he got to get on the train and was listening for it while we waited and told us when he heard it. Brant has been telling us about the animals he saw. He usually mentions the monkeys first and reminds me that they were making a mess (one of the chimps was tearing up a paper bag and throwing it around) and then says that they were "silly monkeys". He also liked seeing the kangaroos and the pink flamingos. Here are some of the pictures from our zoo experience over the weekend.

The Flamingos

Looking at the flamingos

Looking backwards for Mommy

Posing, or not really posing in front of the Fort Worth Zoo picture background.

One of the kangaroos that would pose for the camera

Looking through the glass at the crocodiles

One of the crocodiles

Happily waiting for our turn on the train (but only happily waiting for a little while)

Sitting on the train waiting to start the ride

Mommy and Brant on the train

Sitting with Daddy looking ahead as the train gets ready to go

Our zoo train

Waving to the animals as we pull away

This is Brant's silly, messy "monkey"

At the Park with Elmo

I took Brant to the park on Thursday and he wanted to take Elmo out of the car with him. He took him around the park sent him down the slide first and the went down himself and a few times went down holding Elmo with him. He had a great time at the park with his buddy Elmo, but he did have to tell Elmo sorry a few times for throwing him onto the ground. Here are some pictures I took with my camera phone since I didn't have my camera with me (sorry they aren't as good quality).

P.S. Check out his shirt it reads "I look like Mom I act like Dad" I couldn't resist buying that one. He may look like me, but he has his Daddy's great happy and fun personality.

Outside Time

Brant and I spent a little time outside yesterday. I was just taking him outside to play on his new slide that he got from his Grandma and Grandpa and his Aunt Mo and Uncle Ryan. He loves his new slide, but then our neighbors dogs (on both sides) started barking and he took it upon himself to tell them they were not supposed to be barking. He went to both fences telling them "No Bark! Doggie, NO BARK!" even though it just made them bark more. He seems to enjoy telling them to stop so he spent some time doing that and then running around in the backyard, but he did stop for a bit to give the tree in the backyard some love. Brant wants to keep our backyard clean so when he found a Sprite Zero can he kept trying to throw it over the fence into the neighbors yard behind us, but he could never get it to go high enough to go over. After several attempts we took the can and then put it in our recycling bin. We had a fun time in the backyard and I'm so glad that we put it to use more now that Brant is in our lives, we never really used the backyard at the old house except to let the dogs outside. Brant definitely keeps us on our toes and helps keep us more active since he is a VERY active boy.

Playing on the slide:

Playing by the fence after yelling at the dogs.

Posing for the camera

Sweet boy!

Running in the backyard

Throwing the can

"That's How You Know"

Brant loves the movie Enchanted. We have watched it several times together and he watched it this morning with his Daddy. I downloaded the song "That's How You Know" from iTunes and was playing it and he came in and started dancing and trying to sing along, and I was able to capture some video of him doing this.

*Please ignore my messy scrapbooking room and the few parts I'm trying to encourage him to sing myself.*

Here he is dancing (mostly with a flashlight he finds in my scraproom) and singing (a little bit) to "That's How You Know" from the Disney movie Enchanted.

Mimi & New Boots

Brant got to visit with his Mimi on Saturday when she was in town from Florida. She played with him, gave him snuggles and eskimo kisses and had lunch with Brant, Mommy, and Daddy at Zio's. Mimi brough him a pair of cowboy boots from a friend of hers in Florida. Brant tried them on and was walking around the house in them wearing his shorts. The boots are a little big, but I'm sure with the way he is growing they will be too small in no time. We are glad that Brant got to visit with his Mimi since he doesn't get to see her too often. Hopefully he will get to see her more when she comes back in June, and then we are going to take him to Florida to see his Mimi at her house and he'll get to see a beach for the first time. Here are some pictures of Brant in his boots and with his Mimi.

A kiss for Mimi

Now some Eskimo kisses!

Smile for the camera!

Brant in his new boots!

Happy Easter from the Allens

Our family is truly thankful for all of our blessings especially at this time of year. We hope you are all having a wonderful Easter.

Easter Sunday Egg Hunt

Soon after we got home from church Brant found a stash of eggs from the Easter bunny in the living room. He had a great time finding the eggs (there were 52) and shaking them to see if there was something inside them. Here are some pictures and video from this morning.

Dropping eggs into the basket.

What's inside this one?

Looking at how many eggs are in the basket.

What's in this one?

Brant's filled basket of 52 eggs!

Enjoying what is inside the eggs!

Here is the video of Brant doing the egg hunt: