First trip to the zoo

This New Year's Eve, we were real party animals: we took Charlotte to the zoo for the first time.  It was so much fun to see her with the animals; mostly, she pointed and said, "Wow."  Yes, she really did say 'wow'. 

Luckily, Koby got to come and enjoy this first with us - it seems like he misses out on alot of firsts, mostly because of work. Although I will say, on the level of firsts, this one was pretty cute.  I don't have a ton of pictures, mostly because it was so darn sweet watching her watch the animals that I forgot to pull the camera out until about half-way through.  I guess the cuteness wears off after a while.

Looking back, I'd say her favorite animals were the meerkats, definately, followed by the elephants and giraffes.  We went again a few days later without Daddy (we have a membership now) and she was FASCINATED by the fish, of all things!  We had skipped them the first time.  I can see now we won't skip them again any time soon.  

Watching a mommy monkey and her baby climb

Feeling adventurous

    





Checking out the chimps

What's that silly lion doing?

Yes, that is a lion laying upside down, like an old hound dog.  Ferocious, isn't he?

She had a good grip on that fence!

Still not ready to leave the flamingos

   






The Houston Zoo also has a Children's Zoo with a petting zoo.  I was really excited to see how she would react, and wasn't very surprised to see she was more interested in the other kids at first.  Once we got across the idea that you don't pet children, you pet goats, she went along quite well!