Day at the Zoo

Today, we met up with our good friends Mike and Steph, who were down visiting from L.A. When we last saw them in May, we made plans to get together and go to the zoo in July-- which is what we did today! Nikos had a great time, though he wanted to walk around on his own quite a bit (which is both good and bad... he likes to run willy-nilly with no particular regard to where he's going!). However, he enjoyed the elephants and llamas (as always), and was a little scared by a close encounter with a polar bear who dove into the water right in front of us. He liked the gorillas, too, but was more fascinated by all the waterfalls and ponds in their exhibit. And his favorite part was the petting zoo, where he actually went and touched the goats all on his own for the first time (no prompting!). He didn't want to leave, but it was naptime... and he conked out within minutes of getting into the car. Anyway, here are a few pictures from today's adventure!




Finally, a picture with Mike and Steph!
And yes, our sweet baby girl was there, too! She was perfectly content in the stroller, either snoozing or looking around quietly the entire time. And her feeding schedule worked out perfectly today- she was hungry right at noon, when we were all sitting down to eat, anyway! Hooray!