Zoo Time!

As summer drew to a close, we made a visit to the zoo with Erin and William, and had a great time!  Keira, while being "stuck" in the stroller, found some great things to see in the 2nd half of the zoo tour.

Brooke and William enjoyed sizing themselves up to see how big they compared to the baby elephant, Mario Lemieux,  etc.

I love the progression of Brooke's face in the next two shots.  In the 2nd one, she's laughing so hard at William's antics.

Ah, the Mama Elephant and the Baby Elephant!

"FINALLY!"  Keira says, as she's 'released' from the stroller.  In the aquarium, she could wonder about and see the fish up close at her level.  And boy, did she like what she saw!

The polar bear exhibit proved to be a lot of fun too!  The bear was jumping around in the water, throwing one of his "toys" in and leaping after it. 

Brooke finds a camel to ride!  At the very end of the zoo, they have a "live" area you can walk through...walking amongst deer and some other animals.  But the favorite part of the whole zoo for Brooke and William was the playground at the end.  Lots of "animals" to climb on, slides to down, etc.  By then it's 4pm, everyone's exhausted and we have to wrangle the children back to the cars.

More Sister Love

Ah, I hear my girls playing together much more these days, and nicely most of the time.  Lately they've been crawling into a chair together in the playroom and reading books.  I had to sneak so in for photo opportunities!
Here they're nicely looking at a sticker book together.

A couple days later, I hear them together in the chair again.  This time, it didn't end as nicely.

Classic.

Nap Shananigans

Ah, does she sleep or not at naptime?  Lately, not much.  There's just a lot of running around her bedroom, trying on clothes, emptying drawers, etc. 

On this occasion, she put her friends down for a nap -- see all the stuffed animals lined up on the pillows, with blankets over them?  And then she fell asleep...thus the lone leg laying in the bottom right corner.