MN Zoo

 We took a family trip to the MN Zoo on President's Day (super busy! go a different day!) and snapped a couple photos of the kids. Here are the ones of Isabel on the wolf statue in the MN Trail and on the tram with daddy. It was the first time we all took the tram there, which was a good way to see the outside animals on a cold day.

N.E.W. Zoo

Zollman Zoo

Zollman Zoo is in Byron in Oxbow Park. We have not been here since before Henry was born, The place gets nicer & nicer every year. I just wish it was a little closer to us and then we would go more often.

It had been about 10.5 months since Isabel & Rachael had seen each other. Rachael is a year older than Isabel and has gotten even taller. They played well together and had a fun weekend together.

RADZoo

We bought a family pass to the RADZoo (it's pretty close to us) so we plan to go there often. I should make a list of all the animals we have pet there, make our way through most of them, that would be kinda cool (except Big Al - the 12 ft alligator, well, and also the 15 ft snakes they have there too, and any that might be dangerous.)

Como Zoo

Milwaukee County Zoo

Como Zoo & Conservatory

Click on this top photo to enlarge it and see some additional pictures. The bottom 2 collages are ones that were my favorites and put on FB as well.

We had a good time. Isabel did not care for the manure smell in the building of the zebras, kudus, & giraffes. As soon as we got in each building she covered her nose and begged to leave.

She was wonderful about actually making us take time to smell the flowers. We had to stop & smell every flower we came across in the conservatory.

She said her favorite things here were the seals, the poisonous (black & blue) frogs and getting a "lucky" penny (the kind we pay 50 cents to have a machine flatten & emboss an image onto). She also loved the fish.

A Couple of Zoo Pics

I don't normally have pictures with me in it because normally I am the one taking the picture. But today I asked someone to take a picture. Here we are on the train ride. We also went on the carousel as well.

I think this picture is funny. I told her she needed to make sure a bird didn't poop on her head (there were lots of birds flying above us - it was indoors.)

We went to the zoo with our playgroup. I will post the slideshow in a bit. It was a lot of fun. We carpooled with Lori & Rachael. The girls on the same nap schedule, but it didn't work out so well. She napped for 15 minutes in the car and then about 15 minutes in the house and that as it. Maybe I'll get her to go down for a later nap.

She loved the fish again. I have a feeling that someone may be asking for a goldfish in a couple of years. She really liked the elephants too. She liked seeing all the animals, but the elephants & fish were her favorite.

Tonight we are hoping to take her to the Books & Co. Pajama Party storytime. Although, lately she has not been good about public storytimes. She doesn't want to sit still and just wants to run around.

Apparently, we made national news because a church downtown blew up. It was about 6-7 miles away from our rental here. And speaking of our rental here, the neighbors just put their place up for sale for $1,375,000. Crazy. We don't know the neighbors, but my theory is that it is a divorce. The guy would yell a lot at the wife & kids.