Saturday at the Zoo

The girls had Thursday and Friday off of School. I couldn't manage to get time off myself on those days so we went to the zoo Saturday morning and made great memories with Nathan's first trip to the zoo. We loved how we had to tear him away from each animal we saw so we could go see the next. I really think his favorites were the monkeys, the giraffes and the elephants. As for the girls and I, we loved watching Nathan! What a great day! My little flamingo girls.
We watched the elephants eat up close at their new elephant observation area. This cute one kept throwing grass on her back. We loved this spot.
Nathan can't stop looking at the turtles on the logs at the entrance.
All the animals were so active, it was so cool and breezy. The otter family was a hoot!
My stroller broke right after we paid for our year pass, luckily, just a few feet away from the stroller rental. Time for a new stroller. I guess I put too many miles on it looking at ducks with Nathan on the canal! This silly thing had no space for stuff, and wanted to tip and scream downhills. Crazy thing!

Hey Cutie, your are sure growing up fast. I can't believe how big you are!

Let's take a long walk and quack while we're at it

Nathan has discovered the world of animal sounds, especially ducks. I've been running with Nathan along the canal in the mornings, and to distract him we talk about all the wildlife we see and hear. His favorite are ducks right now. A very close second is dogs. But I think he loves the quacking sound ducks make and that they swim in the water,but mostly that he can quack. And pretty darn loud. Unfortunately,we noticed this new love of quacking during sacrament meeting last week, in the really quiet part during the sacrament. Its hard to miss a one year old quacking when it's that quiet. Krista has a bird on one of her sweaters and was quietly showing it to Nathan when he got really excited and started jumping and quacking. Goooo ducks!!!!!