Thursday, May 24,2012 Zoo Trip

Today several families from our group took at trip to the zoo. It was a nice, cool day and the zoo was well shaded, so most of the kids seemed to stay in a good mood. L seemed scared of the first couple of animals because she whined and wanted to stay in her stroller (which is rare) but then began talking to them and pointing. She was very interested. The highlight for me was the panda house even though it was crowded and extremely noisy. Jillian as always preferred the monkeys. I reminded her of when she was little and liked to climb, she would say, "you're the monkey mommy and I'm the monkey baby."

After the zoo, the driver took us to McDonald's to get take out. Jillian and I decided to just get ice cream and we think it must have been Laikyn's first taste, because she had a very shocked expression and squinted her face up. She tried it two or three times and then shook her head no. Thats the first food she wouldn't eat. She even liked the steamed bamboo shoots on the breakfast buffet. She had rice ceral with banana in the room and took a long nap. We had our regular beef noodles at the Holiday Inn next door and then spent the rest of the evening playing in the playroom with The Salmons family( Brian, Tracey, Emily and baby Jayden.