Monday we went to the
Riverbanks Zoo in Columbia, South Carolina with our Mom's group. Turns out I picked a
perfect date for the trip!!! The weather couldn't have been more beautiful!
Here we are bright and early getting ready to leave. It takes about an hour and 15 minutes to get there, but we were going to a friend's house first to car-pool.
On the road. Ethan was super happy to be riding in Mrs. Janette's car!
Shortly after we arrived, while waiting for all the Mom's and
tikes to show up. It's Madeline with her friends,
Mariah and Owen. And Ethan with his friend's Ava and Holland:
Madeline with her best buds:
Excited to see the zoo:
Ethan helping Ava get her
Nuk:
Most of the kids that came with our group (I think there were 3 or 4 others that showed):
Mom's
Meetup of Columbia County:
The first thing we saw:
Then we saw many beautiful birds:
Then we visited the Gorillas. By far, Ethan's favorite thing to see:
Can you tell what he's doing?? (Yes, I know he's a he because of what he's doing):
Checking out the elephants:
My friend,
Sarrah, brought this Mei
Tei (
sp?) that she brought to lend another mom, but since that mom didn't show, I tried it out! I was great for the first hour...I couldn't take much more than that though. I think it was a combination of not having him seated high enough and the weight:
Too cool:
Looking at the tortoises:
I think our favorite part of the day was feeding the
giraffes:
Ethan wanted to feed him, but he didn't want to look at him while doing so. Quite a few people got a good chuckle out of it. He stood like this for quite a long time:
He finally stopped teasing the
giraffe and fed it:
Madeline was a little scared of the mama
giraffe, so she wouldn't come near for a picture:
The
giraffe eventually walked away, so Madeline came over:
She LOVED the baby
giraffe though:
Shortly afterwards, we saw some ostriches:
The three amigos:
I thought the tiger was
sooooo beautiful:
This must have been around when Ethan started to not feel well. Later that day he spiked a fever and I took him to the docs to find out he has an ear infection.
Baboons:
This is where we had lunch:
The car ride home:
Poor little guy:
We LOVED the Riverbanks Zoo and look forward to visiting it soon with Daddy :)
Madeline was pleased with the dress, but she informed me she wants a pink one and I should give the blue one to Ethan. When I told her that boys don't wear dresses, she said that we could mail this one to her friend, Mariah, and I could make her a pink one. ...sigh...
Turned out a little shorter than I like dresses, but I'm either going to have her wear some short leggings with it, or sew on a contrasting color piece of fabric to the bottom (thanks for the suggestion, Sarrah), to add length:
I learned a lot through the process of making this dress, and look forward to the next one...a pink one :)
