things are a changin'

i'm taking a leave of absence right now from "motivate me monday".
i'm trying to do too much at one time and when i can't accomplish a task, i get stressed and dwell on my failures.
if i was more laid back, i'm sure i wouldn't care so much.
but i'm not so i do :)

on to other things ...
webb has been quite the napper these days!
he's been clocking 3 hours most afternoons and it's been really nice to have a little extra time for myself.
now what i do with that time, i'm not always sure.
though these long naps are so great, i've found there's a downside.
sometimes they lead to a cranky toddler.
which i, for one, completely understand.
whenever i take a long nap, i'm kinda cranky myself!

this past friday afternoon a cranky webb woke up close to 4pm.
it was such a beautiful day and we had no plans, so we headed to the zoo.
from our door to the zoo entrance is no more than 10 minutes.
a really great bonus to our location. (of course we didn't care about that 21 months ago!)

anyhoo ... i decided that webb and i would just walk around the zoo, ride the carousel, play at the playground, etc.
this was the first time we had been this spring, gone by ourselves, and visited the zoo sans stroller.
this zoo trip goes down as one of my favorite days with webb.

some favorite moments were:
he loved seeing all the different animals, but then got scared and wanted me to hold him. (a very rare occasion!)
he held my hand the whole way around the zoo.
he mimicked the crazy noises the camels were making and made his adorable little fish face when we saw the fish.

all in all the best part was that we had no agenda, nowhere to be, and my mind was totally in the moment.
oh how i struggle so much with being present.

here's webb trying to get a good view of the muskrats.

he couldn't get enough.

the flamingos were his other favorite.

and then as we usually do on a friday night,
we met casey at el mariachi for the only meal where webb will clean his plate.
he loves their cheese quesadilla!
it's not just any quesadilla he loves, it's gotta be from el mariachi!
this boy is something else.

(they were watching the masters.)