Thursday
After being inside for a couple days from the rain and having our Wednesday trip to the petting zoo be a bust this week, Colin and I decided to brave the misty, moisty weather and head to the zoo. Here he is "roaring" at me like a lion as we get ready to go.
We met a few of our friends there too; here's Colin watching the flamingos while we waiting on them to arrive.
Girlfriends!
Colin, trying to convince everyone to come on!
We got to look at some of the animals before the rain got bad again, but what Colin really liked was the puddles!
FridayToday we tried the zoo again, with much better results. We got there early in the day and the weather was absolutely gorgeous! The animals were all really active (probably after all the rain this week) and it was in the mid-70's.
We did a couple things we've never done before too. One of those was going in to the butterfly sanctuary.
Colin loved watching them up close and it seemed like there were butterflies on every other leaf.
This one has a beautiful sky blue top side that I just couldn't get a picture of. :(
See what I mean about them being everywhere? That's one flying next to Colin's head and you can see them on the plants.
We sat and had lunch by the giraffe, which pleased Colin to no end. Of the African animals, that and the elephant may tie for his current favorite.
You wouldn't know it by looking, but this is about the 100th time through this particular puddle. They apparently are just as fascinating the second day! Fortunately it's San Antonio and everything was nearly dry today, with only a few puddles remaining, so we didn't get stopped up too much!
After checking out the African safari section, I finally got brave enough to go into the bird feeding area by myself with Colin. I don't know what I was afraid of ~ he didn't freak out at all; in fact, he LOVED it and didn't want to leave. A nice gentleman shared a cup of nectar with us. Colin desperately wanted to hold it, but the birds were not landing on anyone under about 4 foot today for some reason. Probably for the best! :)
Hard to see, but that crazy bird is still on my head. He wouldn't get off!
Colin finally looked up for the man taking our picture!
Afterward, we spent more time with birds. About 20 minutes just watching the ducks. Wow, he is mesmerized by them!
And this afternoon, when we got home, he wanted to play sock puppets: one of his new favorite pretend games (learned at grandpa's, I think?). Here he is "roaring" at me.
2 comments:
Great pictures! Love the looks on Colin's face in the bird shots.
The sock puppet came about on the way to Dallas. He threw his sock at the back of Papa's head so I decided to make a "seal puppet" and say not to throw things. (like socks and animals) Colin thought it was so funny that his sock talked so we continued this for many miles. But..he didn't throw his socks off anymore. :-)
It looked so much more enjoyable the second time...minus the rain :)
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