Walking Backwards

Well, I wrote an entry last night about Nicholas' preschool parent orientation, but it looks like it has disappeared. I'll just give you a quick run-down of what I remember. Its probably better this way, because you won't have to deal with the agonizingly long and tedious details. To give you an idea, it was two and a half hours long. I was about five minutes late and arrived to find the place packed with people who all seemed to know each other. Being no good at small talk, I sat down and filled out the three-hundred forms that I had to turn in at the end of the night (including a criminal background check, yikes). The three speakers told us all about the school, first aid procedures, yada, yada, yada. . . I spaced out about an hour into the whole thing. I am SO glad they sent us home with an information packet going over everything they covered. It does make me wonder why we had to go there in the first place.

In other exciting news, I took Nicholas to the Austin Zoo today with Cathy and her two girls. Coming from the awesome zoo at San Antonio, the Austin zoo was kind of disappointing, but it was the perfect zoo for someone Nicholas' age and a little bit older. They had a great petting area and the sold cups of food for the animals at the beginning. We took the train around the property and Nico was in heaven. It was so cute to hear him name all of the animals as we passed them. The zoo did have a great advantage over the San Antonio Zoo in that you could take your own food and drinks in with you, so Nicholas actually ate something. We left after about two and a half hours and Nicholas fell asleep almost immediately. I can't wait to get the pictures developed (I'm trying to get away from my digital for a bit).

I'm off to make dinner now and keep the baby from surfing on his changing table. Tomorrow is his preschool open house, so excitement abounds here.