Sometimes my home feels like a zoo! There are monkeys on the furniture, alligators in the bathtub, and hyenas at the dinner table. Believe it or not, one of my family’s favorite Day-Out spots is the real zoo!
We had a picnic lunch served by a gracious 4 year old hostess.
I put it back on, but my temporary fix was just that…extremely temporary. A few rotations later, the wheel was off again and I began to envision a trip to the zoo that involved me replacing a stroller wheel every 5 steps.
I quickly realized that would make for a less than enjoyable afternoon and trotted off to rent a horribly expensive, less than baby friendly, uncomfortably hard plastic zoo stroller. While I was standing in line at the rental place lamenting what this was going to cost me and trying to figure out how to make my baby girl as comfortable as possible, my son came running up to tell me my friend Carrie had hailed down a maintenance worker who thought he could fix the stroller. Yeehaw!
I return to 2 maintenance workers drilling a hole in my stroller and putting the wheel on with a cotter pin. It worked beautifully and we spent the rest of the day playing at the zoo!
Sally-Ann says
I love the zoo!
Kelly @ Sufficient Grace Ministries says
What a fun day! And what a blessing those maintenance workers were! God is good! I love how he meets our needs in big and small ways. Great pictures…great memories.
Lilyofthevalley - Tanya says
Beautiful memories! What wonderful maintenance men too. Not often will people go out of their way to help like that.
Enjoyed your post!
Mylla says
Cute kids!
Linda says
Amy, I love it that you have special memories with your sweet Emilie,…and I thank God for your precious baby boy.
That is neat that those men went to such depths to help you. I do thank God when people are nice.
God is Good All The Time!
Linda @ Truthful Tidbits
Aspiemom says
i love when people are kind – when it’s “not their problem.”
That looks like so much fun! Thanks for sharing.
Fruitful Harvest says
Oh Amy~
What a fun day it looks like you had!
The true joys of motherhood! I’m glad to hear your stroller story turned out! I was feeling the stress!
Did you get a new one? LOL
You should come to my blog and see what happened to my van a few weeks ago…(I finally posted it).
Don’t laugh to hard…ok you deserve a good laugh!:} so go ahead!
It was supost to be Wordless Wednesday but…I talk no matter what! so there are words too.
Blessings,
Georgiann
Lynnette Kraft says
Don’t you just love nice people who go out of their way to help!? I do.
Looks like you had a fun day yesterday. We’ve been dying to go to the zoo. We haven’t been in about a month. We tried to go during spring break, but my goodness the line was a mile long (seriously) so we went to Sedgwick Country Park right by the zoo and had a great time. I even blogged about it! 🙂
Thanks for joining us Amy! It was fun having you.
Lynnette
PS I love the picture of sweet Emily.
Patricia says
Zoos are a great place to take the children. Thank you for sharing your pictures and memories.
Jenilee says
I can’t imagine going to the zoo with a broken stroller! 🙂 how wonderful that they were able to fix it for you.
mommyx12 says
How wonderful. I love the pics. and I noticed you have the colored set of dishes. We do that too. A friend of mine has the same color everything. Whoever has the pink dishes has pink bath towels, pink toothbrush, pink sheets and blankets, everything pink. Always easy to find the guilty party when things are left around!!
mwell says
That is SO ironic!
We took our DD to Disneyland when she was 4 months old, and the wheel came of her stroller…and we fixed it with a ‘bobby pin!’
It looks like you had a lovely time at the zoo! (and what a helpful little hostess you have!) 😉
Blessings,
Michelle
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