spoken for

On Thursday, Elijah and I went to the zoo with my sister-in-law and niece. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I love our FREE zoo!! We had a blast, even in our short time there and despite the heat, so how about a quick version in photos?

First, breakfast!

My niece refused to talk to or even look at me for the first hour and a half, lol. Then driving:

She’s still a little bored, Elijah’s his usual self.

Then, animals and such:

And some prairie dogs that Elijah still insists are chipmunks:

Yup, that last one reminds me of:

Cracks me up every time.

We had some photos taken with a hippo:

Then my niece’s dream for the day came true with an elephant in the WATER.

Elijah was very disinterested with the elephants and nothing I could say would make him smile at them and so I finally said, “what’s the matter, you tired?” He said, “No. I just… I just… I just want to see the penguins…” Silly boy.

So then he was mad that I wanted his picture with a penguin that was *gasp* NOT in the “cave.”

Yes, he was telling me at that second that he wanted to go in the cave, and not see the penguins that were outside. Because, you know, when you’re four years old, it’s absolutely impossible to wait even five seconds for something.

The penguins were the last thing on our list — I LOVE the penguin display!! And so then who was still having fun on the ride home?

And then?

Peace…………. for a few minutes at least!

And finally? A picture to send to Grandma and Grandpa!

Alvin, Elijah, and Alvin!!

(At least he is now carrying around that photo instead of the diagram of the eye… Oh, yes, that’s another story for another time but I’ll tell it here anyway. The other day he said, “Mama, what’s in my eye?” So we looked it up, then he asked me to print it out, then he carried it around all day and showed it to people at the grocery store, at Subway, etc. Crazy.)