Zoo!

Eric left for California today, so I grabbed Grandma and Grandpa and we took Kaitlyn to the zoo. We got there early and went right to the kid area. Kaitlyn cannot be contained these days, so we figured she could run around more freely there. Right away she tired us out. She seems to always want to be where we aren't! She loves to be chased. Here she is when she ran off and was looking at one of the exhibits. We spent a lot of time in the "campground" area. Here she is sitting and playing in the mulchy dirt. We just love when she gets dirty and plays with different textures!

Here she is all smiles! She liked this bridge, although she tried to reach down into the water. Luckily here, it was out of reach. (Not the case in other places - thank goodness Grandpa kept her out of the streams).

She watched another little girl climb up on this stump and she decided it looked like fun! We are working on imitating, so good job!

Grandpa got her to climb through this hollow log. I didn't think she would do it. Once she tried it she was hooked and did it a couple more times.

A squirrel came to see her. Can you see it on the fence? Kaitlyn tried to go get it but she chased it away!

There was a garden area in the middle of the Discovery House. I knew we had to spend some time in there since she was contained and couldn't run away. She climbed on this little bench! Such a big girl! This was a first.

We only lasted a couple of hours and we decided to call it a day. Oh, that was after she got soaked in the fishing area. There was this little stream of water inside. She wanted to play in it and it looked OK to me, so I let her stick her hands in and splash. After a few minutes, I realized that water probably wasn't for splashing. Oh well.

Afterwards, we went to Bigz. We beat the church crowd, so she had the play area all to herself for a little while. She found a Frisbee and carried that all over the place.

What a fun day!