Yesterday mom and I went a few garage sales and got Kenna a few new dress up items. Since she went to Caroline's recital last weekend, she has been talking a lot about ballerinas. When she puts the dress on, she dances around the living room and tells us she is a ballerina. It is adorable. She even tries to mimic the hand and feet movements she saw the ballerinas doing. I think this means ballet class is in her future!
This morning, she again needed her ballerina dress on and was reading books to her baby. I had to sneak a picture. I knew if she saw me she would stop what she was doing!
Today was the Parkview employee picnic at the Zoo. We enjoyed Nelson's chicken, applesauce, macaroni and cheese, cookies and ice cream for lunch, then headed off to the zoo. They recently opened the new African Journey which was PACKED. It was so hot and the lines were outrageous for everything but overall we had a fun time. Kenna loved seeing the giraffes!
I like the new layout of the giraffe exhibit. Before the "remodel" you were pretty far away from the giraffes, but now they can come right up to the caged platform you are standing on. They also sell various food items that you can pass through the cage to the giraffes. In the backround of the pictures you can see the giraffe. It was actually closer to us than it looks. Poor Kenna was a bit disturbed about the giraffe eating. They put straw up in a basket hanging from a large pole for the giraffe to eat. Kenna was terrified that the giraffe was eating a bird's nest. It took all day and we still haven't convinced her that he was not eating the bird nest!
After the giraffe was done eating the "nest" he came over to us. Right up to the platform!! You can see his head, ear and neck in the middle of the picture~ he was probably close enough to touch. Kenna and two other kids were standing RIGHT THERE when he came over. I was surprised Kenna was not afraid of him. Of course they had no food, so the poor giraffe was disappointed, but I think some of the people behind us had plenty for him!
It was so very hot at the zoo that we really didn't stay long. We have a zoo pass so we can go back anytime for more zoo fun! We did ride the train, which Kenna loved. We saw turtles, ducks, geese, etc while on the train.
After the real train ride, there was some playing on the wooden train, then we headed to the car! We were beat! Tony pushed me (and Kenna) most of the time in the wheelchair. It was very nice of him, but I felt so bad because when Kenna didn't want to sit with me, he had to handle my wheelchair and Kenna running around. Next time we are definitely bringing some help with us!
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