Veda and Neena

We had a delightful weekend. Friday David and I had our last Mandarin class together. He graduates to kids only classes this summer. It will probably be a great transition to preschool for him, but I am a little sad I won't get to go to class again until Max comes home. It's back to Rosetta Stone for me.

Saturday we went to the zoo with the lovely Veda and Neena and their parents. We saw the new Great Bear Wilderness plus other zoo highlights including a misting station, the carousel and a playground (because why pay attention to the exotic animals when you can go down the twisty slide?). David had so much fun that he slept four hours after we got home.
David and Veda (with Neena in the third picture)

Today we finally painted the steps that the boys repaired a month ago. David enjoyed helping and didn't even seem to mind that we painted them blue instead of orange as he had requested. Let the record show, Uncle Stanley, those steps are not Carolina blue. It is definitely darker than that...though I've already been harassed by one neighbor so far, and he's not the UNC alum. Maybe we should have gone orange.

We got to hang out with our friend Nickie this afternoon, and David skipped his nap. The second picture below is him at 5:30 sound asleep at the dinner table. He is still asleep, and we have our fingers crossed he makes it until at least 5:30 tomorrow morning. If he wakes up at 2:00, we are in for a long night.