Spring Weather in January

We enjoyed a BEAUTIFUL day today. The high ended up being about 61 according to weather.com...and we just appreciate it so much after these cold winter days stuck inside! I decided the zoo would be more fun than a park since we went Monday and will go again Wednesday, plus they have "Zoo Tales" on Tuesdays which I thought would be a bonus. Lorelei LOVED getting outside and seemed to enjoy the zoo even more this trip. We visited the farm animals, where she enjoyed seeing the chickens and pigs and I got to dodge a turkey who looked a bit possessive...but you know me and birds. Then we took a quick trip to see the monkey's before heading to the story time.

While it seemed like a good idea...Lorelei's interest was not kept at all with the books. (can't expect it when the reader is less than entertaining and the book is tiny and far away and she doesn't even try to show it to everyone!...guess I'm going to have to do my own story time since none of these are up to my high standards. ;) ) Got to see a tarantula and we would have liked to have pet the bunny but by then Lorelei had no patience so we headed out for the rest of the zoo. Got great views of the giraffes, elephants and lions...all very up close! Had the sandwich and grapes we packed and then headed home.

Then had to wind down a bit (hoping for a longer nap after the fresh air and walking but wanted to be double sure by putting her down a bit later too) so Lorelei played with sidewalk chalk on the balcony. Now it is over an hour past her nap time and she is still talking in her crib! I will remind her of this someday when she is a teenager and wanting to sleep all the time I suppose. :)


Enjoying some more chalk drawing outside with Dad when he came home.

More update of today...when telling Brad about our day I asked about each thing we did like "did we see pigs?" and she nodded about everything. She is big into nodding lately.

The other funny thing she does now I keep forgetting to mention...instead of just saying "no throw" we tried saying "we don't throw ____, we only throw balls" Well this plan has somewhat backfired because now every time she throws something she isn't supposed to, before we can even say a word she just says "ball!" Hmmmm.....