SO BIG!
We have been having camera problems these last couple of weeks, so I have not been able to take new pictures or make new posts. The good news is that Keith fixed the camera!
We had our first "Family Fun Night" last Friday evening and we had been looking forward to it all week long. Keith and I will be taking turns planning a fun day/night with Mia... kind of like a Date Night with her. :) I planned our first one and decided we would go to the zoo, then to dinner, and lastly to Ted Drewes! Keith works until noon on Fridays, but since it was really warm on Friday we decided to wait until after Mia's afternoon nap to leave. That way the sun would be lower and maybe the crowd would have thinned out a bit. While Mia napped I carefully planned what we would need to bring in the diaper bag to make our trip out as lengthy as possible.
We luckily found a great FREE parking spot quickly and as I was getting Mia out of the van I realized I forgot the diaper bag!! I was so disappointed and thought our night would have to be really short. However, a super-nice couple offered us a couple of diapers so we would at least make it through the zoo. Keith purchased a disposable camera so we wouldn't lose those first zoo memories and even got Mia a really cute souvenir hat (which was lost before we got back to the van at the end of the visit).
We decided not to zoom through the entire zoo since we could come back another time. We visited the bears, the apes, the Monkey House, and the Reptile House. Oh, and the sea lions! We weren't expecting a lot of interaction from Mia since she is only 8 months old, but we were pleasantly surprised that she enjoyed watching the apes! The apes were hanging out close to the glass so it made for some great camera opportunities (and we did the best we could with the disposable).
Mia was as good as gold through the zoo and during dinner at our favorite Vietnamese place called Mekong. We opted to skip Ted Drewes on this trip... it will give us a reason to head down that way again! Mia really needed her bottle, and the baby food we picked up at Walgreens wasn't buying us much time.
I learned a very valuable lesson! (Other than the diaper bag is a wonderful resource.) I learned that there will be times when Keith and I will need to be creative and resourceful, and it will always work out just fine. I can't wait for Keith's turn to plan Family Fun Night! Remember when he used to plan Mystery Dates before we were married? He's very creative and fun with that stuff!
Hello there!
So pretty!
Do you see the monkey up there? And holding me?
There are sea lions back there.
Until next time!
