First trip to the zoo

Or as Monte calls it, a day he won't forget for a very long time! It was awesome, we have never seen Isabella SO excited. We told her on Saturday morning that we were going to the zoo after she woke up from her morning nap. I can't imagine she even really knew what a zoo was, but she knew that she should be excited about something, and she was running all over the house excited and squeeling. Then she only took about an hour nap because she was so excited, which is pretty short for her. She is usually very shy and quiet, and wants us to hold her when she is in a new, strange place. But not there, we hardly even used the stroller, she was running and holding Monte's hand the whole time while I pushed the empty stroller. She loves birds, so of course all of the tropical birds were her favorite. But her very favorite were the chickens, yikes. I figured she would love the monkeys or the tigers or the zebra, but nope she kept wanting to go back to the chickens! She also experienced her first real "owie" there, she fell down and skinned her knee. Both Monte and I got blood all over our shirts as we were trying to comfort her. Thankfully she did that while we were on our way out, because it was all over from there! I love that we live pretty close it's only about a twenty five minute drive, so we will definitely be going back. I took pictures of a lot of the animals, and made a little book for her (I'll try to post it sometime). She loves it, she always brings it to me and says, "read, please", she names all the animals, her favorites to say are, "cock cock" (peacock) and "MON kee" (monkey). She has even been bringing it to bed with her!