A WILD ADVENTURE!

Today we explored the Tautphaus Park Zoo, in Idaho Falls!

It was Connor's first ZOO adventure. Shea's family joined us for our WILD day of fun!

The most adorable part was Connor's sounds! The first friend we met was an Asian Squirrel we got to see them pretty close, only the cage separating us, Connor just "oohhh"-ed and "oohhh"-ed at them as they jumped all around the branches. 

Connor, Grandpa Stanger and the Pelicans

Every time we saw an animal that Connor had an interest in he would growl at it. It was pretty much the cutest thing of the day. I loved hearing Connor growl as we passed each exhibit! It made the Zoo worth the walking. And when you have a child at your side excited for the adventure of it all, you don't have any regrets (even if your 7 months pregnant)!

Aunt Ellie and Connor 

Petting a donkey with Daddy

We got to meet some friends at the petting zoo, but Connor wasn't too fond of getting to know them. He is more of an observer than a petter. 

A scary lion!

When we saw something exciting (say the Zebra's)
Connor would look for me and want me to come over closer to see.
So he would point and grunt at me. 

Connor even wanted to imitate the monkeys. We could hear the monkeys screeching throughout our whole park adventure. So Connor tried to make some noise back.

Screeching Monkeys!
(And when we visited them they were silent, silly little things.)

He got a little exhausted at the end, after running around, following Daddy through the park, and meeting all sorts of new friends. As we were leaving we passed a duck pond where Connor heard they quacking banter. So the rest of the walk to the car we had a "quack"-ing Con Duck with us. 

After such a WILD adventure we were starving so we stopped at Five Guys Burgers and had what else? Burgers and Fries. Connor got to have some munchies while we ate, even though he was wearing down he was such a happy boy! What can we say we have a kid that thrives on attention!

Finally we got home and were able to relax after a day in the sun with lots of walking!