Dumbo and Bambi

We finally renewed our zoo membership and decided to head up to the Wild Animal Park and check out some animals. Joli has been especially chatty lately and asked several questions on the way there including "What are you doing?" and "Where are we going?". When she asked the second question (for 900th time) I responded but saying "I am taking you out to the middle of nowhere to drop you off", she then said "Ummmm.... no thank you". I was very entertained.

One of the other things she talked about was how much she wanted to see some elephants. So first stop... elephants!!! It was actually pretty neat because there were a bunch of them and they were pretty close. I thought maybe part of the reason Joli wanted to see the elephants so bad was because she has been watching Dumbo a lot lately but when I asked her if Dumbo was an elephant she said "No, he's not", then when we came to the rhino exhibit she said "there's Dumbo", so we had a disscusion about Dumbo's ears and whether rhinos or elephants had ears like Dumbo.

While we were looking at the elephants Joe called, so we took a little break to talk to him. Unfortunately for Joe, Joli was completely distracted by all the people to watch and objects to climb.

I decided that instead of bringing the hiking backpack and having to carry it through most of the park without Joli in it, that I would bring the sling for when she got tired. It took us a while, but it turned out okay.

Kacie said it looked like I had two hats on because you could barely see Joli.

Our goal was to walk to the bus that would take us on a tour through their African exhibit and then to walk back, that way we would get some exercise but not too much for Kacie's bouncing belly. She has been discovering the effects of caffeine on a pregnancy the last few days. She's totally craving soda, but then a few hours later I can literally watch her stomach dance! Once we made it to the bus she was very happy! Joli was too!

Another animal that Joli had mentioned she wanted to see while we were there were the "graffs". The Wild Animal Park has a ton and when the bus stopped so we could see them Joli made sure everyone on the bus knew they were there!

This ball is kind of floating on water and Joli loved spinning it. Once we figured out it was actually a globe I showed her where Daddy is and where we are. Of course after that she just pointed to random places on the globe and said "Daddy here" or "We are".

This tree is just a fake tree for the kids to walk through. Just call me a kid at heart!

Joli didn't think it was quite as funny as I did, but I made Kacie take pictures anyway.

Once we made yet another bathroom stop, we headed home and Joli took a nice long three and a half hour nap! At the time I thought it was great, and then it was bedtime...