Saturday at the Maryland Zoo...The weather was in the low 80's in Baltimore, a perfect day for the zoo!
Go Ravens!
The raven.
Silly girl at the polar bear statue.
Ellie on a turtle (statue)!
Look, it's Ellie in a shell!!
Brushing a goat in a bucket... Why not!?!?
Ellie is nearly 11 hands high... Way to Grow!!Ahh, The Great Shoe Saga...
So, Ellie insisted on wearing her Princess Aurora shoes (note: she hasn't worn them all summer but today she HAD to wear them). About yards within the zoo gates she whines, "My feet hurt." and my response is, "Kiddo, you insisted on wearing those shoes so now you have to live with it, lets go." So, we went. By the time we got to the gazelle and helmeted guinea foul exhibit she was walking with one shoe half on her foot. She stood up on the fence to get a better view and BAM!!! A fit like I have never witnessed from Ellie before... She threw herself into the air then and straight onto the ground while shrieking and I was able to make out the word, shoe. I looked over the fence and about 12ft below us laid her right shoe in the grass. Fantastic!Thanks to Sandy, the very kind zoo volunteer and the keepers we were able to finish our day at the zoo with 2 (uneaten) shoes about 30 minutes and lots of funny looks from passer-byers later. No, there is never a dull moment!!
And here are the nice people who retrieved Ellie's shoe. Thank you so much!!
Feeding Lily, the giraffe.
Hmm...
Um yea, that was pretty cool!!
Yay snacks and yay zoo!!!
The chimps.
Ellie really got a kick out of the monkey who was picking at his butt. Seriously though, it is kinda funny!
Snack time for the chimps!
Ellie noticing that they really are a lot like us!
Ending our great day at the Maryland Zoo.
Sunday... Port Discovery fun in the giant bubble!
Monday, we headed down to Largo, MD to meet with Uncle Larry and Aunt Donna who where in town for a conference in DC. Yay, good times!!We hung out for a long time in Border's coloring pictures of Captain Underpants and reading lots of books.
Awesome pictures!!
Ellie (bah-bah head) and Bill the Bison at dinner.
Uncle Larry, Ellie, and the moose
MB, Ellie, and Aunt Donna before ice cream and good byes... I am so glad we could get together!!
Tuesday... Look, deer!!Yes, there were three fawns outside of Ellie's school by the playground grazing when I picked her up.
We hung out for about 30min just watching them... it was really cool!
Ellie and Erica at Colleen's baby shower.
Two VERY silly girls!!Ellie running like a crazy girl down the ramp at the library, just like I used to love to do when I was her age!
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