Our First Trip to the Zoo

This past week I have been teaching Jefferson all about animals, mostly the wild variety. We got a ton of books at the library (so many so that they told me I was at the limit) and sat down every day and read. Most interesting is that Jefferson is so much more willing to listen when the books are non-fiction. He really is his father's son. He was very good at identifying almost all the animals that we found at the zoo. He did call the prairie dogs rats, but in all honestly they are pretty rat like. We had never taken him before because we thought it would be a waste. We didn't think he would pay attention or even realize what was so cool about the animals. But know he is old enough and interested enough that we made the trip. My mom was kind enough to come along and join the festivities and we had a great time. Jefferson loved it so much that we couldn't keep him in the stroller. Even while it was moving he would slither out and run. He is such an energetic child, but it was great to see.

Anything with feathers is a bird to Jeffers, except an owl that is. I really wanted him to spread his feathers, but he was alone so he had no reason. One of these days I'll capture it.

Jefferson's favorites were by far the elephants, giraffes, and unfortunately the snakes. It took us a while to get him away from the elephants. They had a baby that just turned one and he had a great time watching him play with his ball. We had to stop by again on our way out of the zoo.

Jefferson is deep concentration trying to figure out what the elephants were going to do next. I love these pictures. It's like I can almost see what he is going to be like when he is an adult.


Our attempt at a family pic, but obviously the elephants were much more interesting.

I really don't like osteriches. They freak me out. And I swear this one was staring right at me with angry eyes. It definitly wanted to eat me.

The giraffes were great. This one really liked to lick the pole and Jefferson's response to this was, "Taste good?" Classic!

Another cool looking bird.


A moe-ney (Jefferson's word).

Jason absolutely measures up. He is the greatest.
It was such a fun day, unfortunately Jefferson won't stop talking about the snakes and he is really mad at me for returning the library book about them. Hopefully he'll grow out of it before he starts bringing them home.