Dane's First Trip to the Zoo...

So thanks to Christi and her free passes, I finally got my lazy mom butt up and took Dane to the zoo for the first time... He had a great time. He was pooped when all was said and done. But I think this was the funnest zoo trip for me. I've never really gotten to enjoy stuff because the kids are everywhere, but I was able to see the giraffes up close, I got to ride the carousel, looked at farm animals, I got to watch and listen to an elephant drink water, and I even saw the Gorilla's get fed! That was amazing-a really neat thing to watch! So posts aren't really fun without pictures unless you're Mikelene and can write creative, fun things, so here's some pictures to look at!


This was the only one with Dane looking at the camera... too bad I'm making a silly face... it would have been a nice picture. oh well.


I took this picture while Dane was walking ahead of me. He was so happy to be out of a stroller... but then came the leash (which got me some dirty looks from a few other seemingly perfect moms. Big, Fat "W")


Posing with the lion- took about 3 shots to get this one, but Dane had a blast studying the statues and playing around on them.


Yes, he is picking the dear monkey's nose. Atleast it's not his own, right?


Tram ride back to van- possessed or tired? maybe a little bit of both? (couldn't delete this blurry one, I thought it was sooo funny)


I'm thinking tired and he was asleep before we got out of the parking lot.

Guard Frogs

So I've been wanting to show everyone our new pets. They live somewhere on our front porch... a whole family of them. They loved to eat all the bugs around our front door on those hot, steamy summer nights. One night I count 7 frogs around the ceiling of our porch and I found this cute little guy the other night on the floor of the porch.