Back at the Zoo

If you know my family you know that one of our favorite and very cheap excursions is to the zoo. Curt's mom and dad get us a family pass to the zoo that is less than 30 minutes away from our house every year for Curt's and my birthday. We like it because we can use it as often as we want and if we happen to go away to somewhere close to another zoo we can get into that zoo at a discounted rate. It is a great deal for us all around. Keeping all that in mind, I have a lot of scrapbook pages about the zoo. It is a great joke among my Rachel friends.

Anyway, this year our first zoo trip didn't happen until the week before we went to Disney. Yeah, I was packing away and then had to stop and go to the zoo. But really with those cute little boys wanting to feed the giraffes how do you say no??

The boys are very fond of maps. They don't really know how to read them, but they hold them open and look at them all the time. They've done pretty good at not running into things while they study their maps, but they've had some very close calls.

I love taking their picture while they are sitting on stuff. I don't know what it is, but I am sure that I have at least one picture from every trip to the zoo with the boys sitting on this same pile of elephant tusks.

This picture is pretty exciting to me. Ethan is the one feeding the giraffe a little cracker (especially made for the giraffes and provided by the zoo). Ethan is afraid of animals including dogs (even puppies) and cats (including kittens). He doesn't like them to get anywhere near him (especially with their mouths). But he did really good feeding them here.

Here he is petting the goats. You see he's petting it way up on its back and he wouldn't let Curt put him down to walk among the goats. Oooh No, that isn't going to be happening for a while.

This is the little elephant statue in the children's play area. I told you I liked taking their picture sitting on things.

I hope you all have a happy day today!

**I haven't had much opportunity to update our blog lately. I am going to try to catch up with some of the goings on over the last month or so that I haven't been able to share. I am going away again this weekend (scrapbooking with cousin Beckie, I am soooo excited) and Curt is going to join me on Saturday night so we can spend Sunday with Beckie and Mike. I will try to post more early next week.