babies bongorno: Tigers and Bears and Sheep, Oh My!

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Tigers and Bears and Sheep, Oh My!

Over the last few weeks we've had many fun animal adventures, the highlights being trips to the Zoo and the Lake Metroparks Farmpark. Surprisingly, Nora was not so excited about the loud baaing lambs (although she's been baaing ever since) at the Farmpark...they scared her a little...but she liked the chickens and horses and the cow milking presentation reminded her that she hadn't nursed all afternoon. Mostly, I think she just wanted to run around in the grass.

The zoo was an adventure in toddler parenting - one of many to come, I'm sure! Nora wanted to walk the entire 3 hours that we were there, always in the opposite direction of where we were heading and she was the most interested in all things un-exhibit. Such as, the rope gate thing at the food court (fascinating!), wheelchair/stroller ramps (up and down and up and down), the big turtle statue (that was pretty cool), pebbles and sticks on the path, the bridge being built over a segment of the park (Chris was also excited about that one), and each and every one of the seemingly hundreds of crying human babies (she was signing 'baby' the entire time, staring into strollers, and clearly did not think these babies' parents were doing enough to keep them content). She's a constant reminder to reassess what is interesting in the world. :) Who wants to look at a caged wild animal when you can analyze two human parents attempting to calm a crying baby in a stroller by sticking a plastic thing in its mouth? Seriously.

On to the pictures...

So many exciting things at the Farmpark!