Yes, I know it is about time that I am updating this. Frankly, I am so busy. Absolutely loving being home with the boys daily and not quite sure why I didn't do this sooner. It helps that I have a wonderful group of friends that I see and do things with daily. I really do love these ladies and cannot imagine how I lived here so long (before kids) and did not know them - especially since they have all lived here just as long as we have.
Gary is out of town, so it is just me and boys and LOTS of ice outside. Ben is still up talking, clapping and singing in his bed. Alex is fast asleep.
Sunday after church and Sunday school we went to the zoo for our little Sunday adventure. We brought a picnic to eat with our gloves on in the 34 degree weather. Gary and Alex have gone to the zoo a couple times this winter, even brought Ben along once, so from the moment we entered Alex was Mr. Tour Guide. He guided us first to the Sloth Bears. I learned from him that they don't eat people and have long claws as they dig for roots and bugs to eat and that lots of time they have brown stuff hanging from their bottom. The eating people comment was very amusing to Ben, who from that point on questioned loudly at every animal: "bah eat people?". I believe that "bah" is Ben's way of saying "that." He is talking more (and we have a speech therapist evaluation next week), but Bah is still a favorite word.
We moved on down to these otters...which didn't seem to be swimming around on this cold day (much to their dismay)....
Then the red pandas (very cool) and the fishing cat (looked like a normal house cat to me...but Alex knows all about them and claims it is his 3rd favorite animal after the sloth bear and the flamingos).
This is it and then my camera battery died.....ugh....Love my new camera, but the battery life is SO much less than my old one. I could go weeks without recharging my old one and this one needs it every 3 or 4 days. Oh well, we visited the flamingos who were thankfully awake this time. And boy were they fighting amongst themselves. Ben actually looked a bit frightened as he quietly said to himself several times "bah eat people, bah eat people".
We got as far as the camels (which had been replaced with wild australian horses...which alex said "basically they look just like a donkey." The elephants seem to be on vacation at Disney World while they await a new and bigger home. Other than that, we had a great time despite the cold and we had all the animals practically to ourselves. The zoo is SO much improved in the last year and i think we might be making this a regular stop on the Sunday Adventure express. Next week we promised Alex that we can go back to the Painting musuem as he calls it....
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