we went to the zoo... on Monday

oh yes, we did.

The girls really had a good time.
Buglet tried so hard to stay awake the entire time we were there, and she finally caved and fell asleep while Belly & I were watching the elephants get their baths.

Oh yes. We watched the elephants get cleaned. AND, the soap/shampoo stuff smells pretty good. Like, really good. Like, I want to know what it is and if I can use it on the dog & cat & mayber even the kids good.
AND. It was ELEPHANTS getting a SHOWER. HOW AWESOME IS THAT?! I love elephants. Belly says they're all my elephants - sometimes one is hers, but she always tells me that she knows they're my favorite.
And, Belly asked a million times when we'd get to see them. Well, them & the "a-raffes" (giraffes for those who don't speak toddler-ese).

Now Belly, she likes the peng-juans (penguins, again for those who don't speak toddler). She could watch them all day long. She loves to watch them swimming and she just thinks they're great. She prefers to 'go downstairs' to watch them (the glass part of the enclosure is down a short flight of stairs) than to watch them from the observation deck that's set above/beside it.

Buglet seemed to like whatever she could focus on that would keep her awake. She spent most of the day chewing on a teether.

loving her new teether

Mumma & her girls

she loves her Daddy

PENG-JUAN!

After the zoo, we went out for pizza somewhere new (for us). We had a gc from one of the local deal sites so we tried it out. It was good and we'll probably either eat there again or Nick will pick it up on his way home one night.
Belle danced around the place while we were waiting for our food -- she was really good, not obnoxious, and we were the only people there. If she was a menace, we wouldn't have allowed it. She's been eating in restaurants since she was only a couple weeks old and is always very well behaved. Buglet got to sit in the hook on chair and she thought that was just the bees knees. She LOVES sitting up at the table with us. She even got some pizza crust all for herself.