Our Zoo Trip!

While Jeremy was with the school on their retreat, a bunch of us that had been left behind decided to spend the day at the zoo. Well, we initially didn't plan on spending the whole day there... but we went to breakfast first and ended up getting to the zoo around 11:30am (our original plan was to be there by 10am) and we didn't leave until 4pm! We wore our kids out!! It was a great day... the weather was perfect and the zoo wasn't too crowded. Here are some pictures of our fun day!

Here Kyle and his cousin, Collin, are standing in front of a life-size (9 1/2 ft.) polar bear picture the zoo has to measure up to. I don't think their little heads are as big as the bear's paws!

Here is Bryce entertaining himself in the stroller while everyone else is checking out the sea lions. He did great, especially considering he had to ride around in the stroller all day and couldn't see any of the animals.

Bryce seems to always be happy, which is great, because he has such an adorable smile!!

Kyle had so much fun playing with Collin and Jonah. (Jonah is my friend,Keli Sergeeff's, little guy.) Here he is in Keli's wagon, wearing Jonah's Elmo hat. We had been asking him all morning where we were going and he would say, "a zoo!" and we would ask him what we would see, "animals!" Too cute! I had taken him to the zoo last year and he was more into watching all of the people and little kids than looking at animals.

The zoo had some djembes that the boys absolutely loved! You could hear kids banging on these things all throughout the primate exhibits. Here they are banging away. Bryce actually managed to fall asleep while the were banging, despite the boys serious lack of rhythm.

Here is Kyle trying to help the gorilla statue out by picking his nose for him. He was actually just pointing to the "big monkey" as he called it, but it looks like he's picking his nose!

This last picture has nothing to do with the zoo, but I had to add it because it is too cute. Bryce is sitting so well, crawling like crazy, and pulling himself up on whatever he can. It's amazing to watch him doing all these things, especially considering he isn't even seven months old. Kyle didn't crawl until after nine months. I guess Bryce wants to be able to keep up with his older brother, or maybe just get away from him so he won't sit on him anymore! Bryce had just gotten out of the tub, so he's wearing his little robe. Too cute!