At the beginning of the summer, moM and daD came out to visit us in our little temporary apartment and to get their Benji fix. Our big day trip during that visit was the Lincoln Park Zoo. Benji certainly liked the animals more than his last zoo visit (after all, he now knows the words for some of them), although the rocks were still more interesting. I think his favorite animal this time was the giraffe (also a favorite animal in his Noah's Ark toy and his animal puzzle).
"Oooh, Gramma! This rock is bigger than the other ones I've played with!"
"Let's see if I can climb the rock..."
"Yep, I sure am good at rock climbing, with Gramma's help."
"Hmmm... Giraffes or Gramma? Which is more fun to watch?"
"Ooh! Little rocks! And plants, too!" There was a conservatory next to the zoo that we took a little walk through. I think Benji rather liked it since so much more was at his eye level than the high fences around the big animals at the zoo.
You can never have too many big rocks to climb.
In the children's zoo there was this section of pipes set up like the old "telephones" — you talk in one tube and someone else listens at the other end. Benji thought this was pretty cool. And, it was just fun to run around among them.
At the beginning of the summer Benji was still a thumb sucker. Sometime over the summer, though — and we're not quite sure when — he just quit on his own. We hadn't even considered yet trying to get him to stop so I guess this is just one more way we should be thankful for such a cooperative child.
In another exhibit in the children's zoo you could get up close and personal with one of the animals in this tunnel. Benji was totally oblivious to the animal, however, and just loved standing in the tunnel. So much so that we had to pull him out so other kids could visit with the animal. What animal was it?
Yep. Still in the tunnel...
Benji and Grampa check out some animals in the monkey house.
Funny potty humor toddler story ahead: So Benji is coming up on the time for toilet training. He loves coming in the bathroom with us and has taken to telling us when he is peeing or pooping. So in the monkey house one of the monkeys (I think the black one at the top of the photo) pooped while we were there. Of course all the kids cried "eww!". Benji joined in and cried out "poop!" very proudly. I think that was his favorite animal moment of the day. Rock climbing and monkey poop. Yep, those are my kid's favorite parts of the zoo.
i sincerely do not know what you are doing here. are you lost? were you
looking for your delicate calico cat, and did you follow her up two flights of stairs
to this room? she is not here. she was here, yes. we gave her a warm bowl of milk, we talked with her about campaign finance reform for a time, and then she bid us good day. i believe she was
going to the post office two blocks down, but i don't quite recall.
for surely you did
not find your way from prinsiana, the least traveled site on
the internet. if you did, though, perhaps you are looking for humor. perhaps you are looking for profundity. perhaps you are looking for answers.
i'm sorry, but you shall go naught-for-three.
