Well, we are officially old. We went to the Hogle Zoo on Saturday with our two kids. A real family outing. Sadie was so excited about it that she let me do her hair, climbed into her car seat willingly, and gave me her best smile on the way there.
We've been trying to teach Sadie about animals more lately. I bragged about how she knows letters and numbers, but when it comes to animals she is mostly indifferent. Over the past few weeks she has gotten sheep, cow, lion, pig, frog, turtle, tiger, monkey, and cat down. She already knew dog, horse, fish, bird, giraffe, and duck before. Let's see- that brings us to a grand total of 15 animals. That means we only need to teach her....lots more animals.
Our first big time sighting was elephants. Sadie loved the baby elephant (not pictured)
I know she recognizes elephants but she won't say it yet.
Another exciting exhibit was the monkeys- AKA monkey monks
Sadie likes to add the first syllable of an animal's name to the end of the name. For example, piggy pig, monkey monk, etc.
I included this picture since there haven't been any of me since Elise was born
The most exciting sight was the tiger
Sadie LOVED it. She ran around jumping and yelling "up!"
Elise did all her animal-observation from the stroller
(Margaret- please tell Booker we made the all-important trip to the zoo with Elise)
We saved the best things for last- the merry-go-round and train.
Sadie was so excited to get on the carousel, but once she actually sat down she got really nervous.
She had a death grip on Daniel and half-cried while saying "fun" the whole time
There are no train pictures. I had a very small window of time to get a picture. The first one I took was too early and my camera didn't have time to recover to take another one before Daniel and Sadie had passed me. I only came out with pictures of those sitting in front and back of them.
It was a very successful day. Sadie fell asleep in the middle of eating her lunch on the way home. That has never happened before.
BIG NEWS- not only will Elise have one best cousin, she will have two!
It's a great year for John babies.
4 comments:
Your family is growing up! They are both so cute. I can't wait to see them again.
It's weird how our family is growing up to- so many grandkids!
You look great! I love the picture of Elise's little legs sticking out of the stroller.
Here are my thoughts on your post in no particular order:
1) I wish I was there with you to go to the zoo and have our maniac daughters run around together.
2) You look really good, to the point where its making me have angry feelings towards you.
3) You are also giving me hope that perhaps one day I will look normal again.
4) I'm a little disappointed that you didn't make fun of Daniel more in this post.
5) I want to know your thoughts on how your stroller is working out. I need to start looking at purchasing one.
I've been going to the zoo for years. Does that make me uber old?
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