Last night we went to the Zoo Lights. I love going to this every year...so festive! But we must be the dumbest parents to go there without a stroller. I swear, I think Joacim and I both agree that we've had some moments of sheer "parental stupidity" since we had Izzy, like forgetting her diaper bag on an outing, but to go to the zoo without a stroller??? Stupid. We ended up carrying her around the entire time because, oddly enough, she was petrified of the animals. This from the little girl who asks anyone and everyone to read her animal books 17000 times in a row. When we got there we went straight over to the seals, and she looked at them, and then looked at Joacim, and shook her head and said "No" in her angelic little voice. Then she buried her head in Joacim's neck...her sign for being scared. It was like this whenever we were near an animal. Sooo strange....maybe it was the darkness, because she wasn't afraid when we were in ocean's exhibit with the sharks and penguins...
But we were able to get a nice family self-portrait...
Compared to the one last year...look how much she's GROWN!!!
The lights were beautiful..
Now she's finally checking out the lights...
It wasn't easy to get photos, that's for sure!
Like I mentioned early, the FINALLY was OK with the animals once we got to the penguins. And lucky for us, they were really active that evening!
After the zoo lights, we went to Bazbeauz pizza for some dinner. We'd never been there before, but always heard great things about it, and we weren't disappointed!
She got bored rather quickly, so we kept trying to find ways to occupy her. The only thing that worked at the end was getting her out of her seat and letting her roam around (which I'm sure EVERYONE else there LOVED :) Screw 'em....it's better than dealing with a tantrum!!!!!
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