Lily’s trying out her new cat ears I made her on Christmas morning.
Lily and Waldo at the Zoo.
Some of Lily’s buddies are having a birthday party with Lil’s new birthday cake set.
Nothing makes me think of Christmas and my Memaw than Poinsettias.
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Random shots from the Zoo
I have started using our nice point and shoot lately so I don’t have any mobile shots to post today (not that I’m really good about doing a random shots post every Friday, but I try), but I liked these so I thought I’d post them.
Lily looking at the lions.
The Fam.
Lily and Waldo looking at the giraffes.
Lily doing her witch face.
Cutie.
Lily on a tiger.
Butterflies at Zoo Boise
I guess I haven’t blogged about the butterflies at the zoo before and I find that almost a crime. Every summer Zoo Boise has a beautiful butterfly exhibit. Lily is really hit or miss if she wants to see the butterflies so we only went a few times this season. I think Lil doesn’t like the idea of the butterflies landing on her; although she seems to be getting over that, because she’s getting more excited about the beauty of the butterflies. She also hates crowds especially in small spaces, she comes by that naturally.
These are some of the pictures I took the last time we went through the butterfly exhibit.
The outside of the wings.
The inside. Amazing!
I believe that this next guy is a glasswing. When his wings are open the middles are translucent. It’s really neat.
The butterflies were retired this Monday for another year. I’m so glad that we got to see them the few times that we did and I already can’t wait till next year.
If the zoo really did hold a talent show Lily would win
I think Olivia has an episode about talent shows so for a while Lily was all about them. It goes along perfectly with Lil’s love of dance. These days when she hears a song she likes she can’t help but dance to it, even if it’s just to wiggle her shoulders. I love this trait and hope that she keeps it.
This was at the zoo a month or two ago. The zoo has this great African musical instrument outside the lion exhibit. Lil never even noticed it till a few months ago, now it’s her favorite thing there. In these videos Waldo is laying down the mad beats with the neat instrument.
*Sorry the second video is sideways. I told youtube to turn it and it says ok, then it’s all f-you, I’m not doing S for you. Man having a three year old is playing havoc with my language.
I guess in the end youtube did what I asked, yay!
Yet another Zoo trip
Yes I’m here to talk about going to the Zoo again. We love going to the zoo. It’s a good way to spend a few hours as a family doing something outside in a fun and controlled environment. We go so often that we know what animals we like to see and the ones that we don’t really care for. Which is to say we know our way around really well and hit the best spots most often.
Last April we bought a year pass to the Zoo in Fresno and lucky it worked in Boise too. I knew buying the pass would save us money, and enable us to go to the zoo on a whim because it wouldn’t cost us more then a few dollars. I had no idea just how often we would end up at the zoo or how much money we would save. Our pass expired at the end of last month so I counted up our zoo trips and was astonished to find out that we visited the zoo 18 times. 18 times! In 12 months. It would have cost us over $250 to visit the zoo that many times, and that’s just admission. We paid $55 for the pass to the Fresno zoo. I’d say it was well worth it. We have already bought our pass for this year of course.
Since I’m already talking about the zoo I might as well share my favorite pictures from our trip this weekend.
I have no idea if the zoo would tell us to stop it or not, but Lil loves to feed popcorn to the geese outside the zoo entrance (there’s a big park). I popped a little popcorn before we left the house and Lil tossed it at the geese with great pleasure.
We have a tradition of sharing a soft serve ice cream cone at the zoo and this time while we were ordering they had delicious brownies next to the cash register so we bought one.
Baby ducks!
My little birdy.
While looking up how many times we went to the zoo I noticed that the number of pictures I took each time grew smaller and smaller. I don’t think I’ve taken our real camera to the zoo in the last half dozen trips, I just use my phone and hope that I get the best pictures possible.
