Lions and Tigers and Bears - Oh My!

Last Friday Megan, Bri and I took the little guys to the L.A. Zoo. It was so much fun! We left right around nap time and were worried about cranky babies but they were out after about 10 minutes in the car so they got a good lil' nap on the way there, thank goodness.
We were also worried that the little babies might not really get it but as you can see by the look on cute little Aisley's face they were VERY excited to be at the zoo.

Dyl jumped right in there. He was so excited about every animal we saw. This was our first stop, at the meercats and he kept pointing and saying "Ooooh...wassat?" With a genuinely curious expression on his face. He is such a funny little boy.

Here's Bri and Miss Elly showin' the flamingos how it's done.

These next few pics are at the ginormous turtles. We let the kids sit on the rocks and watch them crawl sloowwwlly by. Dyl was fascinated by them.

I loved how cute Elly and Ais looked in the little Tutu skirts I made them. Dylan sure had fun not being the only kid and hangin' out with his cousins all day.

Are you ready for the bird show? These two sure are! The kids had SO much fun here. They got to see lots of really cool birds from around the world fly up and down the isles and over our heads and stuff.

I love this next pic. They had fun music blasting really loud so of course Dyl and Elly had to get up and dance. I'll try to attach a video of Dyl dancing...it was hilarious.


Then Elly was chosen to go hide a soda can up on the stage for one of the birds to find. He found it pretty fast and went and dropped it in a recycling bin. It was cute.


On to the monkeys, by far Dyl's most favorite part. It was cute because the kids could press right up to the glass and be face to face with them, which of course to them was very exciting. Monkey's are his favorite animal and he of course started singing the monkey song and jumping around.


I had to include this pic because it actually was a pretty cool shot. I don't know if you can really tell or not but the baby turned around to face the daddy and started beating its chest like Tarzan. It was funny. I pretty much should be a professional photographer for National Geographic or something.
Okay, these next two are my favorites because there was this one little monkey that loved Dylan, Dyl kept putting his hand up to the glass and the monkey would put his hand's on Dyl's through the glass, then Dyl got excited and started smacking the glass with both hands which the monkey thought was pretty cool so he started copying Dylan. Dylan loved that this little furry monkey liked his game and started dancing around. Then the monkey started laughing at him. It was so funny to watch.
Had to include the giraffes even though this post is already way too long because they are my favorite animal to see.

Here's Megan and Bri growling back at the big black bear. It was actually kinda freaky because his ledge was so high up and the gate was so close it seemed like it wouldn't be too hard for him to clear it if he decided to jump.


Me and the Dylster checkin' out the hippo. We sure had a beautiful day at the zoo. We're so glad we're going to be close to family so we can have more fun s with cousins for a while. P.S. that's my new chopped hair! 5 1/2 inches baby! It's growing on me...still miss my long hair tho.