My Sunshine Girls: Petting Zoo & Can I be just like you?

The Petting Zoo

A few weekends ago, we took the girls to the Yellow River Game Ranch. It is basically a petting zoo where you can see animals and feed many of them. I used to go there TONS as a kid. It has really become run-down and kind of sad...but the girls had a pretty good time anyway.

Janie and Lexie both LOVE animals so I thought they would enjoy it. They did have a good time, but it was quite comical!!

Janie LOVES dogs, she is constantly running up to them wanting to pet them. Lexie is the same way. But Janie DID NOT want anything to do with the animals here. She did not want to touch or feed any of them (except the ducks and chickens). Those of you who know my fear of birds, ducks, chickens (anything with wings) find that funny I'm sure!!! She did OK with dropping the food into the little tubes that go into the cages but she WAS NOT going to let any animal close enough to take food out of her hand. Funny girl.

Lexie was the exact opposite and was completely fine with any animal touching her, licking her, snorting at her...anything. Her only thing was she kept trying to eat the food instead! She would not let go of the food. The poor animals were biting and trying to pull the food from her hands and she had a grip on it. Then she would try to eat it-yuck!! It was quite the adventure!!!

Mommy and her girls walking thru the zoo

Janie climbing up Mommy because the deer is getting too close!

Lexie trying to give a carrot to the donkey. She wanted to eat it instead!

This sweet rabbit came up to visit Janie...she didn't like it at all, she pulled away and then began to cry! Silly girl!

Lexie didn't have any problems with the rabbit (as long as it didn't try to eat her carrot)

I joke about Janie and her fear of the animals that day...but who can blame her. Look at this face below. I guess seeing that come at you could be a little scary-ha ha :):)

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Can I be just like you?

When Janie came into my life, I felt my life was complete. Little did I know that Lexie would make my cup runneth over. These girls are amazing. There is a Chinese belief that a red thread connects people that are meant to be together. An invisble red thread that can twist/turn/and stretch all the way across the world if needed. It connects the hearts of those meant to be together and can never break. In the adoption world, many waiting families cling to that belief.I did too. Now, I fully believe that Janie and Lexie have a red thread that connects them. There is really no other explaination. God created them to be together.

It is simply amazing to watch them together. I know all siblings are close and love each other but there is really something special about these girls. Of course they look so similar. Obviously they would since they are full-bio siblings...but still, they look beyond alike. It is sometimes a little scary. Today at the shoe store, I had a lady kind of "argue" with me and say they have to be twins. There is no way they are just sisters. Of course she was kidding, but it is just that way. Unless they are standing up and you see that Janie is about 3 inches taller--they pretty much like identical, especially when they both have thier hair down.

However, thier look is not what I mean. I am talking about thier actions, thier love, thier hearts. They are connected in a way that I cannot even describe. You just have to see it and experience it. They have thier own language. They nap at the same time. They sleep at night at the same time. They wake at the same time (mostly). Their interests are pretty much the same. They love each other with all their heart. They argue and fight with all thier heart. Their passion for each other is beyond description. It can only be explained by the hand of God. He created them for each other. And I am honored to be thier mommy.

Lexie adores Janie. She wants to be just like her. If Janie takes a sip of juice, so does Lexie. If Janie sneezes, so does Lexie (a fake one). If Janie sits on the floor, so does Lexie. If Janie walks down the hall, so does Lexie. You get the point. Janie tolerates this for about 10 minutes then she starts to get annoyed. However, when she thinks I'm not looking..I see her engaging Lexie to copy her again. Tonight they were wrestling (their new favorite play activity) and Janie kept complaining saying "Wexie, no. Wexie, stop". Then when Lexie finally did, Janie immediatley yelled out "Wexie, come back". Too cute!

We went to the Lazy Days festival in Winder this past weekend. The girls had a blast.

Pony rides with Gramps

Janie wouldn't do it at first, but then when Lexie did and she saw it was OK she did it several times...and loved it!

Jumping, jumping, and more jumping (thier absolute favorite activity)

They had this HUGE inflatable slide thing that was WAY TOO BIG for Lexie. It was almost TOO BIG for Janie..but she was determined that mommy would let her do it. So I did. She did great of course and loved every second of it!!

However, like I said above....whatever Janie does, Lexie has to do too, right. Well luckily there was about 30 minutes or so that no other kids were on the slide so I just let Lexie go for it. Here is what this tiny little thing did--no slowing her down!!

Lexie taking off to go up the HUGE ladder!

She slid down a couple of times until she finally got the hang of it. Check out the face below..she looks so exhausted. Looks like she is thinking "why did I attempt this?"

Hard work climbing up that big ladder.