My Best Shot Monday: The ZOO!
Dorrie and I went to the zoo last week. She loves the zoo, and asks to go there a lot. She talks about the “hotopopus” and the monkeys and the gorillas and the giraffes and the zebras and so on and so forth. But we had never gone on the carousel before. I couldn’t really see the point – $1.75 for a boring ride that the kid doesn’t even know they’re missing? No way.
But this time she saw it. And asked to go. And I figured hey, what the hell?
She loved it. Adored it. Every time her hotopopus went up and down the whole time she went, “Uuuuuuuuuuup! Dooooooown!” I have really rarely seen her happier.
$1.75 well spent, apparently.
The little sibling is still doing well – I’m hesitant to talk about the lack of annoying symptoms because it will jinx me. So just assume that no news is good news. When I get kidney stones again, I’m sure you’ll hear plenty of whining about that, so we’ll just go with the whole don’t-talk-about-it theory for now.
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August 17th, 2008 at 8:35 pm
Beautiful pictures!! My daughter (2) loves the carousel but gets scared every time it starts. But she’ll learn. Right now we just do the sitting-down in a teacup thingie part – not the up&down animals.
August 17th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
She looks so big! How cute!
August 17th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
I love the first shot. What beautiful blue eyes. I have found out too that sometimes taking that one extra step that you dont think is really a big deal, is really an enjoyable time for them.
August 17th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
Sweet! I love how completely serious she looks about the whole undertaking.
August 17th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
She’s a cutie!
August 18th, 2008 at 6:33 am
Aw, give the girl a merry go round ride, won’t ya? It’s a childhood must. She’s just precious.
August 18th, 2008 at 7:24 am
“hotopopus†LOVE it!
What sweet shots.
So happy there aren’t any annoying symptoms :)
August 18th, 2008 at 8:00 am
My kids always want to ride the carousel too and we try to avoid it too. Sometimes you just have to indulge them. Great shots.
August 18th, 2008 at 8:32 am
Adorable pictures. Sometimes it’s so worth that little bit of extra to see the joy on their face. :)
August 18th, 2008 at 10:41 am
So sweet! It looks like she had a wonderful time!
August 18th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
So fun! Our first carousel ride was TORTURE, but subsequent rides have been enjoyable. I love that she was so into it, saying upppp, doooown.. So sweet!
August 20th, 2008 at 9:46 am
Aw, she is darling! My son loves the carousel, too. Even the small ones in front of stores.
August 21st, 2008 at 6:58 am
Woohoo! Great zoo shots!