Zoo trip, and other stuff

So, I'm getting closer to being done with the fishermen's wool longies I started while I was in Washington. Closer meaning I have about half an inch of ribbing to go on one leg, then I can start the second leg. Its a good thing too, because I only have an inch more body to go on the longies I'm working on with Aunt Barb's rainbow yarn, and I only have enough double pointed needles to work on one leg at a time, so I have to hurry and finish the legs on the first pair so I can finish the second pair. I'm not positive, but I'm thinking these may be for bigger babies. Like, around the 2 month age. But I could be wrong. Its so hard to judge what size baby these will fit, till I have a baby to try them on.

We went to the zoo yesterday. There were lions and tigers and bears, oh my! Rowan really likes looking at the animal pictures after we get home, because he likes to make the animal sounds. That means he only likes to look at the ones he knows the sound for. Like the bears, and the tigers, and the elephants. Here is a photo tour of our trip to the zoo yesterday.


Rowan is getting a lot better about holding my hand and going where we're trying to go. He usually would rather walk, but thats hard when he starts falling down every 2 steps because he wants to go the other direction!



This is his favourite exhibit. Its a holding pond, so you can look inside and see some "natural" fish (you know, the brown plain kind) and the underwater parts of water lillies, and mud and algae. He likes that these fish think his fingers are worms, and will hang out by the glass when he touches it. This time a really big fish kept chasing the littler fish (of the same species) away from Rowan's hand, and he thought it was hilarious!



Lion skin rug. But I think there might be a lion in it too.


Sleepy tigers.



One of two young bear brothers that was rescued. I forget what it was rescued from now though. But they were afraid it was going to grow up to be a garbage eating, people-threatening, dangerous kind of bear if it was left to grow up where they had been living as cubs. They still look teenager-ish to me. There's a fully grown one in another exhibit that was sleeping today that doesn't have that big headed-big footed look.

The mamma and baby elephants. Rowan can make the elephant noise now, and he raises one arm like the trunk too. Apparently, they had just had a "hay and sawdust bath"



One of the two lovely swans. Rowan makes pig noises at them, because thats how he interprets the sound that ducks make, and he considers this to be a very large duck.


Some people thought this muddy frog pond was a wishing well, because there were dimes and pennies on some of the lilly pads. This was the only frog we saw sunning himself today. Sometimes there are 3 or 4.


It was warm, and very muggy. After a few hours walking around in that weather, its time to go home and have a nap!