Mom and Me at the Zoo

On Saturday, we spent the afternoon at the Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium. Each Mother's Day, the zoo hosts an event called Mom and Me at the Zoo, which offers special crafts, food and events as a way to celebrate Mother's Day. A purchase of a 10 dollar t-shirt serves as your ticket to the zoo for the day. Leila hadn't been to the zoo since August, so she was very excited to see all the animals. There are a few animals that are talked about ALL the time in our household: birdies, ninies (ponies) and monkeys...so a trip to the zoo meant the possibility of seeing some of these. 

Leila's cheesy grin!

Our matching ticket/t-shirts looked like this:
Daddy and Leila waiting and HOPING that a Budgie bird will land on the stick and eat from their hands. 
Still waiting....and calling "birdies, eat!" every few seconds. 
The man next to them got lucky and then helped transfer the bird to Leila's stick. Oh, what excitement to get to feed the bird! She is still talking about it!

Off to find some more animals...

This is what Chris and I call "the Jello defense." We ask her to do something, in this case smile, she doesn't want to, so she turns to Jello. Fun.
A little better this time around. Still pretty cheesy!
Looking for the whale...
We found him!
Every time he swam by us, he would snort with his blow hole. Leila would turn around and giggle at us. 
I LOVE this picture! 
And this one too! What a precious girl we have!!! She has such a sense of humor!


We didn't see any ninies (ponies) so Daddy gave her a pony ride instead...just as good. 
Nap time is quickly approaching (for Leila, not Chris).
The zoo had coloring tables, so of course, we had to stop. 

Running on the central lawn with Daddy. 
Leila took a 30 minute nap on the ride home and then was wide awake until bedtime. Sunday morning however, she slept until 9:15. Chris and I decided we would make this an annual event if it meant we got to sleep in the following morning! I feel very blessed to be married to such a wonderful man and to be the mother of an amazing, sweet daughter! I couldn't ask for anything else in my life! Happy Mother's Day to all!