The Zoo

Since we didn't make it to the zoo yesterday we went today.  Though the rain came back we decided to go anyway and it was still fun, not heavy rain just a light sprinkle.  We renewed our zoo membership so we can go more often now that it's warming up outside.

The new exhibit at the zoo right now is zoorassic park.  They have a bunch of dinosaurs throughout that move and make noise.  John LOVED them and Phoebe HATED them.  She was nervous when we saw the first one but did okay.  The second one however spit water and she freaked out and was terrified of every dinosaur she saw after that.





John and Bella love dinosaurs of course but I need to work on teaching them the real names.  Thanks to The Land Before Time they call them long necks, sharp tooths and three horns.  I tried teaching Bella t-rex and she thinks it's dinosaurs rex, which actually sounds right when she says it.





There's a dinosaur park about an hour north of us that we went to right after we moved to Utah, but John was only 8 months old then so he of course doesn't remember.  Maybe we'll go up there next weekend since I know he'll love it.  Phoebe however might not appreciate it.





And then Hazel went on her first carousel ride.  She was really nervous at first and just wanted to lay on me, but as soon as it started moving she got very excited and bounced up and down with joy.  Our zoo has the best carousel I've ever seen with so many different types of animals.  The kids love picking out what to sit on.  Phoebe chose an elephant, Bella sat on a kangaroo, John on a praying mantis and Hazel on a cheetah.  Bella had wanted to sit on the Okapi because she's really into them lately but it didn't move up and down so she went with the kangaroo.