A Winter Zoo Visit

Saturday morning while I was changing Asher's diaper, I gave him a toy rhinoceros to keep him occupied so he wouldn't wiggle so much. He started saying "woof", which is what he seems to think all animals say. I told him that dogs say "woof", but rhinoceri say . . . .I'm really not sure what rhinoceri say. So, despite it being pretty cold, we decided to visit the Denver zoo for our Saturday activity. We invited Austin's mom along since she loves the zoo. Asher missed his morning nap and slept a little in the car on the way there, so he was kind of lethargic during the first little while. Some of the animals are a little hard to spot and not that entertaining for a one and a half year old, but some of the animals interested him. We let him ride the carossel, but he didn't like it all that much. Of course when he got off of it he kept pointing and getting excited like it was the greatest thing in the world.

He really liked the monkeys since they are really active and do a lot of things to catch a little guy's attention.

He was a little intimidated by the gorilla sitting right up next to the glass eating his lunch. He sat really close while Austin was sitting with him, but wanted to keep his distance when Austin got up to take this picture.

Since it was so chilly outside, I decided it would be better to nurse Leif inside, and the only good option was inside the gorilla house. It was kind of smelly, but we adjusted.

Asher liked the elephant, but was starting to get pretty tired by this time. We didn't get to see all of the animals, but decided it was better to get him home. We will probably make another zoo trip in a month or two to see the rest of the zoo.

P.S. We did visit the rhinoceri, but they didn't make any sound, so we still don't know what they say :)