Idaho Falls

My 3 little Bears

 Bear World up in Idaho Falls was a really great surprise.  There was just enough stuff that you felt like you got a full experience, but not enough to make it overwhelming.  The first thing we did was drive through the bear part of the exhibit.  It was fun seeing such large animals up close and personal, I only wish we would have had a safari car with cages for windows so we could have been even closer.  Then we walked through their gift shop where my mom and I bough fudge:)  Outside there were small amusement rides (perfect for Mason and Zach who are afraid of everything lately.)  My favorite part of the whole experience was the petting zoo area ... which ironically I don't have any pictures for:)  We were able to pet and feed a lot of different animals.  My kids favorite though was the baby deer.  They would pick grass and let the deer lick it out of their hands.  Mason was the bravest at first, but the other two caught on quick.  We stayed at an older Hotel across from the falls, but despite being old it was really nice and we had the really large pool all to ourselves, which was awesome!!   I had never been to Idaho Falls, but have decided that it would be a place I could live.  I loved it!!

Oh the things kids say ... sigh

  My happy happy child Zach has become very grumpy in his 3rd year of life.  I am just waiting and hoping I will see my happy go lucky child emerge again soon.  Until then ... I will continue to tell him not to tell other kids his age that they are not his friends and that he doesn't like them.  and will continue to tell him not to "hate" everything.  We were at Spencer's sisters house the other day and I could not get Zach to stop telling her that he hated it there.  (If only I had a sock ... I would have shoved it completely in his mouth)  Then at church yesterday he was not happy that his normal teacher was not there and that he had a new teacher.  It took a lot of work for us to get him to sit with his class. We finally told him that he needed to guard the suckers so the other kids wouldn't steal them.  Then when I took him to class he kept insisting that he didn't like his new teacher and so I told him that he was a nice guy just like his other one ... to that he replied "But Mommy, I don't like his voice or his face"  My own face went about 20 shades of red at that point and I just started laughing.  His teacher was very gracious and told me not to worry ... he get's that a lot.  lol!