Another Zoo Trip in Winter!!

How often can you get a picture of 5 kids sitting together, looking at the camera and smiling? I'm quite proud of these little ones, but this was one of the first pictures of the day, so they weren't annoyed by me taking a million pictures!! YET

This is the "green slide" inside the barn at the zoo. This slide drove me crazy up until 9 months ago. I tried and tried and tried to get Jacob to go down it - I knew he'd like it if he would just try. Well, he finally did in May last year (when he was 4) and he LOVED IT!! He requests it all the time. You see Ashlyn in this picture going down the slide for the first time at age 2! This just shows all kids are different and that Ashlyn IS my little daredevil (again)!! She absolutely loved this slide too!!

We had a good time at the zoo again this winter! Last Friday it was about 70 degrees. I couldn't pass those temperatures up. So we headed to the zoo. We made this outing, pretty much, the whole day and had a picnic lunch out there. This time the kids didn't seem as interested in seeing the animals as they were in just playing with their friends. We made time for SOME animals, but I think most of the day was spent running around and playing at the park inside the zoo. Oh well, it was still a beautiful day and the kids still got to play outside.