It's a Zoo Day!

We couldn't let a great day go to waste today - so we headed to the zoo to meet up with some friends and check out the animals. One of our routine stops is the birds nest.... my little birdies! (that's Megan chirping at Nicole)

Even our friend will jumped into the birdie family. I wish you could hear their role playing about being the mommy and daddy birds and taking the baby to the bird doctor. It was sweet.

Nicole liked having her friend Emma to hang with!

This is the view I had the most on the playground... Nicole running away to find a new source of adventure and trouble...

Megan kept telling me that she was climbing "sunshine mountain" - I thought that was cute... and then later once we were home we put in a kids praise music DVD (Cedarmont kids) while we were waiting for Tom to get off work and head to choir, and at one point she yelled - "see Mommy, it's sunshine Mountain!" Well sure enough... there's a song that a boy sings as he climbs a climbing wall - and it IS Sunshine Mountain. She remembered that song had a climbing wall in it... boy, I wish I had a memory like that!

We also spent a little time in the petting zoo....

Nicole wasn't sure what she thought about all those animals....

Here she is getting a little brave and going over to the goat to brush him...

Then - AAAUUGHH, he moved. Look closely and you'll see the brush flying into the air. She threw that thing and turned on a dime and ran back to mommy. It was very hard to not laugh at how fast that change of mind happened. Let's just say, the petting zoo is not Nicole's favorite place!

She prefered waving from a distance!

And we had to finish up our trip with a ride on the train...

It was a great day and we are looking forward to more spring-like days to head back over there for some wild times.