Trip to the zoo

The first weekend in October we took Pierson to the zoo and it was so much fun! I ran in the Zoo Run 10k that morning and Pierson and Drew drove down and met me at the zoo afterwards.  Pierson absoluteley LOVED it!!! He loves to read books about animals and always makes the animal sounds so it was so neat to watch him as he saw each animal in real life! (we'd taken him before... but he was much younger)

Staring in amazement at the animals

I'm sure at this point Pierson was saying "Long Neck" as he pointed to his neck... instead of a sound for a giraffe he tells us it has a Long Neck!

It was so neat to see him stare in such amazement at some of the animals!

Getting a better view of some of the animals

Pierson loved to ROAR at the lion... although the lion just snoozed right through it :-)

Looking at the lion with daddy!

The "pink birds" that Pierson "tweet tweet"-ed at :-)

Grrrr!

This monkey pic cracked me up!

Woah! Tiger!

Trying to push through the fence... just wanting to get closer to some of those animals...

The last place we went before heading home was the children's zoo

Luckily they opened up the gates and we got to go inside and pet some of the animals...

I set him down and he just took off running towards the animals...

These sheep were eating and Pierson went to pet one and apparently Pierson startled it and it turned around and poked Pierson in the tummy with his nose... It was hilarious!!!  Drew and I were cracking up!

We had such a great time!  Pierson was so sad to leave... he loved seeing all the animals and making all their noises.  He would even say bye to each animal as we'd move on to the next one... "Bye bye buffalo"... "Bye bye lion Rrrroar"... "bye bye froggy   hop hop!"

I think one of the greatest joys of being a mom is watching your child learn or experience something new! There's nothing like it!!