The Zoo with Two

Everything went really well on our first trip to the zoo as a three-some (and Andrew’s first trip ever).  I don’t usually take any cameras because it is easier without, but I wish I’d gotten a stll photograph of the outfit Susanna chose to wear and a video of the singing siamangs.  I hope I get one of the latter before we leave Seattle (Susanna has already changed out of the former).

Here are some stats:

Approximate number of pounds of children I lugged up the long hill to the zoo entrance: 55

Number of dollars I saved by taking that walk instead of parking in the zoo’s lot and walking right in: 5

Number of times the one-year-old gorilla jumped right at Susanna through the viewing window: 3

The number of families I watched come and go at the table next to us while we ate lunch: 3

Number of animals Andrew saw: 0

Number of times I dropped a blanket on Susanna’s imaginary sister: 2

Number of jumping jacks we did before getting back in the car: 10

As you might have guessed, my favorite animal today was the siamang; Susanna’s was the gorilla “especially the baby one.”

Happy Halloween!

Since Andrew was born, Susanna has considered herself to be goldilocks, and the rest of us to be bears.  Of course this has something to do with her hair, but I actually think it has more to do with Scott’s habit of chasing her and growling like a bear (the story goes a little differently at our home).  Whatever the source of the idea, we have been Goldilocks and the Three Bears for a while now, so it was an obvious choice for Susanna for a Halloween costume.  Scott and I went to a Halloween party with some friends (no kids allowed), and we decided not to be Mommy and Daddy bear for that; we came up with the costumes below as an alternative.