Friends at the Zoo!

Today has been lots of fun so far! As soon as I woke up, my neighbor came over to play for the whole day! We decided to go to the zoo.

We liked watching the people on the zip-line course called "ZoomAir". Here we are on the bench watching people climb around on the course. One of them even zipped right over us while we were riding on the train! We also spent some time at the Bug Zoo, where we did puzzles, played with bug and butterfly puppets and even did some puzzles. Here's my neighbor doing the butterfly puzzle.

We really liked riding the train together and had some snacks while we rode around. We also stopped to have our picture made in front of the wild turkeys because mom thought it was befitting that a couple of cute little wild turkeys should have their pictures made with some real wild turkeys . . . but the real turkeys didn't cooperate as much as we did and scooted out of the picture pretty quickly.

We checked out the herpetarium filled with snakes, frogs and other reptiles. My neighbor's favorite thing seemed to be the blue poison dart frogs, but I really liked the "Tomato Frog". On our way to see the elephants we stopped to feed the dinosaur a snack of leaves and pine needles. We even held hands along the boardwalk as we were walking there (below).

We stopped to see the elephants, Mary and Maude. They were just getting ready to eat their breakfast (hay) so we decided it was time for more snacks. We spread out a little picnic and ate some snacks with Mary and Maude. However, unlike the elephants, we did not put our snacks on our head or on our backs . . . only in our bellies!

The porcupine exhibit was closed, so we stopped to pet the pretend porcupines instead.

We enjoyed our time at the bug zoo and then went out for 2 rides on the carousel and a train ride. We ate our lunch at the zoo and then headed out to Seminole Town Center to play for a few minutes on the indoor playground there. Then, it was time to head home for a nap. Busy day! Lots of fun!

A Visit to the Northland Children's Library

We started out in the bookstore at Northland, but then we wandered into their Children's Library. What a treasure! I had such fun. After that, we headed up to the mall and ate some lunch and played on the indoor playground.

Publix and Chick-fil-a Today

Today we had a nice day. I went with Mom to the grocery store. She let me bring a blanket to use as a "seat" in the grocery cart, but I really liked riding with it in the car on the way to the store!

Then, I saw some Puffin Cereal at the store that I really wanted. Mom decided to spoil me (since it was organic) and put it in the cart. She should have remembered to get a picture of my face when she put it in the cart because I was . . . . "soooo happy". :)

I was so well behaved in the grocery store that not only did I get a balloon (an orange one), I got to go to Chick-fil-a for lunch! Miss Carolyn was there to paint faces, so mom put my name on the waiting list and just as soon as I was done eating my 4 chicken nuggets (and a few fries), Miss Carolyn called my name for a turn at face paint.

She painted some pretty flowers (pink, white and green to match my outfit) and put some glitter on there so they would sparkle.

Mom let me play on the slide and the jungle gym even though it was crowded with big kids. I loved it. I went down the slide 3 times and I took my shoes off and put them in the cubby holes all by myself.

It was a fun morning and I was happy, energetic and well-behaved all morning long! That was hard work, now it's time for a nap.

Hooray for the Zoo Today!

Today we headed out to the zoo. This time, we actually looked at a few animals before we did the other things like the splash pad, train and bug zoo.

This is a red-headed Macaw. I was not too thrilled about taking my picture with him. He was fun to watch, though.
I wanted to feed the animals at the petting zoo, so mom decided to go into this gift shop to get some pet food. I quickly gravitated to this duck-shaped watering can.

Mostly, I wanted mom to feed the goats and other animals, but I finally got brave enough to drop a few pieces of food (mom gave them to me one pellet at a time) into the sheep pen. Mom gave me the little food cup and told me, "put in one piece at a time". So, I dumped the whole cup into the sheep pen at one time. :)

Today we actually saw 2 big, beautiful butterflies in the Butterfly Garden. They fluttered around quite a bit. It was fun to watch them. While we were standing near the butterflies, we heard the leopard roar very loudly. It was neat!

Of course, I wanted to stop and say hello to the elephants.

Mary and Maude were especially close up to the pavilion area today. That made it lots of fun.

I got to watch them eat some hay and throw dirt on themselves with their trunk in order to keep cool.

I mostly liked playing on the steps inside the elephant pavilion rather than watching Mary and Maude themselves.

Rather than throw dirt on myself like the elephants, I enjoyed a blue raspberry slushee and a small cup of vanilla ice cream as we sat by the splash pad. Then, mommy and me splashed around in the splash pad for awhile.

On our way out to the train, we stopped by the bug zoo for a bit and I played with some familiar toys,

put on a few bug-puppet shows for mom,

and examined some pretend bugs under a magnifying glass.

Then, we headed out to the train and took a ride before heading home. We ate lunch in the car and I was ready for a nap by the time we got home!