A trip to the zoo

Shoshanna and I went to the zoo before. We'd been twice before (once with each set of grandparents), but this was the first time that she REALLY seemed to engage with the experience of seeing the animals. We saw just about everybody in the zoo - elephants, tropical birds, rhinos, giraffes. Maybe I'm projecting, but I think Shoshanna liked the monkeys the best. It helped that the macaques were being very rambunctious, AND there were a number of baby monkeys.

Shoshanna was very funny about telling me what she wanted to do at the zoo. She didn't really want to walk much (of course, she hadn't napped particularly well, so she might just have been tired), but she would tell me when she wanted up so she could see different animals, and she would say and sign "done" when she'd had enough of a particular location. And, most interestingly, suddenly she's scared of certain animals. The gorillas I can understand, and she was certainly scared of them when the came and sat right by the glass (she got super-clingy and wanted back into her stroller posthaste), but the ittybitty lizard? She wasn't a big fan of him, either, when he was trotting along the glass roughly a foot from her face.

All in all, it was a good way to spend a sunny Tuesday afternoon.