Wild Things!

Let me start by saying that Chloe is in love with animals. IN LOVE. She loves our dogs. She grabs whatever part of them she can whenever they are in her reach, and she smiles from ear to ear each time they enter the room. In the cabin that we shacked up at in Beaver’s Bend, there was a GIANT elk head hanging on the wall (translation: creepy), and she loved it. She waved to it every time we passed it (apx 50 times a day), and she crooned her head to find it as often as possible. There was also a small bear-shaped table that was disturbingly life-like and about the size of a dog in our cabin. When she first saw it, Chloe giggled and clapped with delight. She was very disappointed to find out that it was not as responsive as our two puppies at home.

Since our baby has so much love for animals, we decided to take her to the OKC zoo! It is around 100 million degrees here in Oklahoma right now, so we just took an abbreviated tour to the petting zoo and the aquarium. They just redid the childrens’ zoo, and it combines two of Chloe’s favorite things: small, furry animals and water. It was a massive success.

We started off the morning by chasing around some goats, petting a rabbit, and laughing at the donkey.

Then we played in the splash park until we were sufficiently soaked.

After that, we visited the Lorikeets. If you get a chance to go, DO–it is very entertaining. The birds land right on you, so we had a chance to feed them, and Chloe had a chance to get bit by one (don’t worry–she wasn’t hurt, and it took about 3 bites from the bird for her to finally figure out that she should stop sticking her little fingers in its beak).

We finished up our zoo adventure with a tour of the aquarium. At this point, the small one was pretty tuckered out and was angry that she couldn’t pet the fish like the goats and rabbit…consequently, we have no pictures. But, all in all, it was a wonderful time!