A Playgroup Zoo Trip

Our little playgroup took our first adventure today. We drove up to Waco to the Cameron Park Zoo. The other 2 moms and kids hadn't been there, but we had taken mine back in December. But they have gotten older and it was a new experience at least. It was us, plus my friend/next-door neighbor Karen with her 2 kids, Tyler (2 and a half) and Audrey (9 months) and my friend Irene with her two daughters Natalie (4) and Izzie (2 and a half).

We had our row of double strollers coming through each exhibit. It was fun to see the kids' reactions to all the animals and also how when they got hot and tired how quickly they were just ready to go! It was definitely and experience to remember.

Afterwards, we found a picnic table outside and ate our lunches we brought with us before the drive home. My car got quiet for a while as mine and Karen's kids passed out, except for her son, Tyler. But as we got back in to Round Rock, they were all up and ready to party again.

This is when the momma's need a nap!

Our journey begins...everyone in their strollers

Me and my kids

All the kids around the Gorilla statue

Lined up on the picnic tables

Audrey and Lillian (twinkies for the day)

Cameron Park Zoo

Brandon took vacation this week, so we planned on taking the kids to the zoo to do something fun as a family. Although it was a cloudy day, it wasn't a bad day to go and on the plus side, there weren't many people there, so we felt like it was all to ourselves.

Lillian loved every minute of it running to each place saying, "Find more animals." The only part she was a little wary of was the snakes and then the nocturnal animals building since it was so dark...she didn't really want to look at the owls. Andrew was freaked out by almost everything...my little scardy cat. He would start screaming everytime we went inside a building...even if it was just fish! I think he thought we were going to feed him to the animals or something. Speaking of which, when Lillian heard the Lion roaring across the zoo, she asked about him, so I told her it was a lion. I told her he was probably hungry and if he could eat her. She said no! I asked if he could eat Andrew. She said no! I asked if he could eat daddy. She said no! Then she looked at me and grinned and said, "Eat mama!" ha ha...my little smarty!

Here are some pictures of our outing. I had to take one of the lion because anytime I've been there before, he has been way off and this time he was pacing back and forth in front of the window looking at us! I think he thought we were bringing lunch.