Leap Day - Because Real Life is for March!

It was Leap Day! So, of course we celebrated. What do you mean you don't celebrate Leap Day?!  It's our family's thing! Well, we decided to make it a tradition based on the Leap Day episode of "30 Rock." Here's an explanation of Leap Day:




Here's a (fake) Leap Day movie that plays throughout the episode:


We take the "Real life is for March" sentiment seriously, so on Leap Day we've decided that T will take the day off from work, the girls won't go to school and we will just do fun stuff all day!

T was telling Pippa about Leap Day and the fun things we were going to do. Pippa replied, "Yeah! And on Leap Day we watch movies!"  I love that she thinks watching a movie is one of the funnest things you could do.

For our Leap Day adventures I tried to dress the girls in the traditional Leap Day colors of yellow and blue but they weren't having it. I wanted to take the girls to Happy Hollow (a little kid amusement park) but they are closed on Mondays. So are all the other places that have kiddie rides. We did have success in teaching Pippa to fake cry for candy!

We started by going out to Black Bear Diner for breakfast (we literally never eat breakfast out and very rarely other meals). Then we went to the Oakland Zoo. And it was absolutely not crowded because it was a weekday. For your viewing pleasure:

 Pippa really enjoyed the lily pads.

If you go, skip the train ride. Super lame.

On the ride home all of us (well, not T as he was driving) fell asleep.

Then we cried for candy and watched a movie. A good first Leap Day for the girls.