So the women from my mom’s group at church decided to meet at the zoo today. (except Shawna and Edi – we missed you) We all got zoo memberships last week and decided that we needed to get right out there and use them. You can click the photo above to see the slideshow. Stephanie and her foster kids were there too, but no photos of them are allowed on the Internet, so I had to crop a few photos. Here are Elliott, Nadia and Clarity.
Nadia got the Little People A-Z Zoo for Christmas from Grandpa Greg and Grandma Brooke and she is a master of all those animals. Mike plays a game with her where he puts them all in the bag or in a pile on the floor and asks her, “Which one is the penguin? Which one is the tiger?” She can pick all 26 out and make sounds for quite a few of them. My attempts at catching this on video are a joke, otherwise I would post it.
So today was very exciting for her to ‘see’ the animals. She got the most excited about the Penguins (back at the FTW zoo finally) and the zebras! When we saw the giraffe’s she said, “Neck, neck” because Mike always tells her that giraffes have a long neck. She liked watching the hippos swimming around and said, “Hippa, hippa.” I had a great time watching her get so excited about the animals and pointing to them and saying things to me. Having the membership is going to be great because we can go and stay until she is tired instead of trying to see the whole zoo in one shot.
Once the kids from various elementary schools left we practically had the zoo to ourselves which was awesome. We took the kids on the carousel and the Yellow Rose Express Train and Nadia liked both. On the carousel she kept going, “Neigh, neigh” and when the songs would end she would clap.
On the train I got her to make a choo choo sounds, but then she got tired and decided to lean back and relax. We left shortly after that so she could get a nap.
