Zoo Day

Happy October!

Which around here means it's too cold to wear shorts but it's still too hot to wear sweaters like I've been dying to do. It's like the awkward teenage stage of months in the calendar year in Jersey. 

Jersey has a way of ruining anything and everything.

Since my mom is still in town, we decided to spend the afternoon at our little local zoo. She hadn't seen it yet and it was cool enough (68 degrees) to walk around on the pavement without melting, and Camden even wore a long sleeve shirt (with shorts...sigh.). Since there were hardly any people there today, I let Cam walk about half the zoo, which is big for him, there's not much more that boy likes than roaming around without having to hold someone's hand. 

Cam and Gramma (and monkeys)

It was also the first time he really took notice of the animals at the zoo (I wonder what he thought we were there for the previous time we went?). He would point at the birds and the monkeys, in particular. 

Smart boy, my monkey recognizes his own kind when he sees it. And the monkeys climbed the fence right in front of us and stared at Camden. They knew. He was one of them.

Staring at Camden through the fence

After the zoo (the nice thing about small zoos is you can complete the whole thing in 45 minutes) we had special Spiderman ice cream treats (and a special Crustables PB&J for Cam who hates cold treats) which Calen was especially excited over since he was wearing a matching Spidey shirt. 

And then we decided to use up what last ounces of energy the boys had by taking them to the adjacent humongous playground. They raced down the double slide and climbed and ran and used up every last neuron of energy they had. 

They were ready for bed at 6pm. Victory.

Climbing the "fire ladder" as he calls it

 

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