12/29/11Today we went to the zoo! As Serenity said, it was a “GORGEOUS day!” (Thanks Fancy Nancy =) Our animal goal was to see the Alligators. So we got a zoo map for the first time, and Serenity led us past the Monkey House (well, we had to go in and visit them, climbing the rocks there is Serenity’s favorite zoo activity) and to the Lowlands. Then we headed past the llamas to the Rainforest, where the Jaguar was back home at last. Then we took a curvy path past the rhinos, and then we went home. Serenity used some really cute phrases today, and I’m not sure where the rest of them came from. She said, “come on! There’s much to see!” and when choosing her dinner, while tapping her chin she said “perhaps.. perhaps…”
Donovan is really starting to express opinions now. He leans toward people and reaches out his arms to them. And sometimes he actually wants me to put him down, and he leans for that. We were outside and he was adamant about getting down in the grass, and at one point he tried to wiggle right out of my lap because he wanted us to follow Serenity, not swing on the brown swing. He added some emphatic “Unh, Aaah,” type sounds for emphasis. He wants to move sooo badly. He’s close to crawling and loves to stand!
Daddy came home before dark today! They got in a few more swings and now they’re blasting off to the moon!
