A Wild Celebration

    Today we headed out  into the rainy weather to go to a birthday party at the zoo. As you can probably imagine there weren't very many people at the zoo in the downpour and we tried to stay as dry as possible as we walked through the zoo to the party area. We spent a few minutes playing around in the children's area and looking at the animals within the building before we headed into the party room to kick off the celebration. First we walked to the carousel and went for a ride before returning for the rest of the party.

Big Brother had a hard time deciding

Froggie on an otter!

Not so sure about it moving

     We had pizza and saw some animal visitors. The kids really seemed excited about the animals and they didn't bring in anything too exotic (a ferret, hamster and chinchilla) so no one was really fearful of them. Froggie even pet the hamster and chinchilla!

Big Brother petting the ferret

Froggie petting the hamster

Big Brother petting the chinchilla

Froggie got to pet the chinchilla too!

     Then it was time to sing to the birthday girl and have some cake before opening presents.

The Birthday Girl!

She had some help opening her gifts

     On our way out of the zoo we got side tracked by the orangutans who just happen to be an indoor exhibit. Big Brother has always liked to see all the animals so it was nice to be able to go to the zoo and see at least a few animals. Since it was so quiet the orangutans weren't hiding like they normally are and the kids got to play hide and seek with the "baby" orangutan. It was fun to watch them and it was really neat to have some personal interaction with the animals.

Ollie the orangutan

Big  Brother with Ollie

Froggie and Ollie playing Peek-a-boo

Ollie really liked Froggie

     I almost forgot to mention that my sister and her fiancé recently came back from Walt Disney World and had brought home some little things for the kids. Froggie got a new stuffed Rapunzel Doll which she has been playing with and chewing on since she got it. Big Brother got a Lightening McQueen football, some candy, and a picture of my sister and her fiancé with Lightening and Mater at the park for him to hang in his room.
     They went trick or treating while they were down there so Hubby and I inherited a bag full of candy. While digging through the bag looking for something I found a baby peep! I LOVE peeps... I don't necessarily like to eat them but I think they're fun and really cute so I was pretty pumped to find 3 little mini peeps in the bag.

Froggie and her new doll

Big Brother getting his gifts

He loves his new Lightening football!

Our loot

BABY PEEP!