The Zoo

We went to the zoo a while ago and I wanted to post some pictures. I had a free ticket for Jackson that expired the next day and so I wanted to use it. When I got to the ticket booth to pay for mine, I realized that I couldn't find Jackson's free pass. I still haven't found it. I swear I put it in my purse and I think it flew out my window on the way up there. It is a mystery. Anyways we had a great time. If you were there you wouldn't know how much Jackson and Hayden loved the zoo. Jackson seemed pretty nonchalant about the whole thing and Hayden cried and wouldn't get too close to the elephants, the gorillas, giraffes, or anything else semi large, but they still talk about the zoo every day. Hayden tells me all the animals he saw: the zebras, the tiger, the goat, the peacock and most emphatically, the giraffes, even though you wouldn't know he saw them since he spent most of the time with the giraffes like this:

He loves giraffes, at least in books. And when we went to the building it said to be quiet because loud noises scare the animals. We walked in and Hayden started his cry that gradually gets louder and louder and I'm sure would have eventually caused a giraffe stampede. So I told him it was ok. If he was scared and didn't want to see the giraffes, just close your eyes and . . . he did, almost the whole time. He loves to talk about them now though. Go figure. Here's Jackson copying his brother.

And this is what he did when I told him NOT TO SMILE.Here are some more of my favorites.

Yay for the zoo!