Life as a Leach

Instead of waiting around for the phone call to tell us to come to the hospital, we decided to make lemonade and visit the zoo.   Check out the peacock with his babies! Riding the carousel  The zoo has overhead tunnels where the animals can walk.  It's so cool!  This is a lioness over our heads! It was his birthday today! Momma and baby boy gibbons (he ran with his hands up over his head and it was adorable!) The dad-to-be...his baby is going to be born in the next few weeks! The one in the forefront is named Abby!  She's easy to pick out because of the long hair on her tail. It was a really good thing that we went to the zoo.  We called every few hours to get an update and were strung along all day until 4:00.  I finally called at 4 to ask if I could feed her dinner and she said someone should have called us to say she had been bumped until tomorrow.  Ugh.  Gotta love hospital time! This evening, Abby loved playing with her RMH friends. ...

I decided last night that Abby and I needed a fun, relaxing day after the stressful week we have had.  We got tickets from the front desk for the zoo, packed a lunch, and off we went!  It was a wonderful day!  The nice thing is that Abby doesn't have any expectations, so we don't have to see every single animal.  I hit the ones that I knew she would like, such as the elephants, giraffes, chimps, and lions, and we just took our time and strolled around.  It was good exercise for me, and Abby loved rolling in her stroller, watching the world go by! Abby got a big kick out of this bird's nest... ...but hated the open-air one!  Go figure! Although she hasn't told me, I think her favorite part was probably brushing and petting the goats. Abby LOVES elephants.  Besides dogs, I think they're her favorite animal.  She would ride one if she could. Caleb likes giraffes, so we took a few pictures for him. The ...