A Smittle Bit of News

Mia FINALLY has enough "top hair"(as my brother used to say as a child) for a fountain pony. Yes, it's tiny, but it's there.

This is her cheese face again. HA! She's such a SILLY little baby! Don't worry, Addi isn't pushing her. It looks like it, but she's not! These two sisters are SO much fun together. By the way, Mia LOVES to climb and slide down slides. She's the bravest of all my kids as far as climbing goes. That girl will slide down, land on her FACE, get up, and SLIDE again! She's a TOUGH girl!!

 

 

We went to the zoo for Lulu's birthday yesterday. There were so many baby animals! It was so fun to see them with their momma's! Olivia was particularly taken by the babies in the great ape area. Look at these sweet things!

Seriously? This is the sweetest momma/baby picture! She was so gentle with her too!

We've seen this "baby" the last few times. I'd say he/she is ready to walk on their own, but the momma thinks otherwise. She kept pulling on the baby and getting it to cling on to her. So sweet!

This makes me laugh out loud. The baby kept looking up at the kids. Love his little ears.

 

Look! TWINS baby gorillas! Ha! The girls love getting on this giant gorilla. Ha!

Bub needed to get in on the action this time.

 

They had such a fun time this time because the weather was cool and the animals were out and there was NO ONE else there. We had the whole zoo to ourselves. The kids loved being able to walk all around like "big kids." I loved getting to give them a little more freedom without the fear of them getting snatched up by a stranger or lost in a crowd. 

They are so stinking cute!

 



Little Lulu. It seems like yesterday when we were taking her on her first zoo trip! Can't believe she's EIGHT now. Time flies.

 

Another (snotty) cheese face. Seriously so cute! They had never played on the playground at the zoo before because there are usually so many people there, but today we had it to ourselves. We also found out today that they are building an all-new set for all you other zoo members! We are really excited about it! Especially Mia, as you can tell in this picture! HA!

For some reason my kids love these silly picture things. Even when I don't have my camera they want to crawl up there and put their head through the hole. 

KK as a scarecrow.

Lulu as a farmer.

Addi as a squirrel. Ha! This is so her personality too!

Bubby doesn't seem to hold the same sentiment for photo op head hole thingies. He looks so bored. My thoughts exactly, Brub.

He does seem to like bronze bears though.

 We got to see so many animals we don't usually get to see today. All the bears were out, the cats were up walking around, and the otters were playing.

KK called over to this otter and it walked over to her, climbed as close as it could, then stood on it's back legs and looked right at her. He just stood there looking at her and barking.

 

 The kids always enjoy the penguins. Today it was like they(the penguins) were craving attention. One took a particular liking to Bubby. It would swim down to where he was and just watch him until he needed to go up for air, then he'd swim back down and do it again.

 Mia was laughing hysterically, and Olivia was trying to determine what was REALLY going on. Love these simple moments of brother sister time when they AREN'T fussing or sleeping.

Isn't this SWEET!?

 In other news, my darling son is working hard at being able to get his tongue to his nose. He's REALLY close. Ha! He's doing his best to make his momma(who can easily do this trick)proud!

 

He can already do the curl. He was trying to show off to his sister(Olivia) in these pictures. She has a tiny stub of a tongue and can hardly get it out of her mouth at all!