"more zoo, peese"

I can tell we're going to be spending a lot of time at the Detroit zoo this summer. We went with our besties Lauren and Mason (AKA May May and MayMay Mama) and had a wonderful time as always! Evelyn loves animals and knows a sound, a song, and a fact for just about every single one of them! She told me a big long story on the way there about how the zebras are scared because they need to run from the lions (insert multiple "roars" and screams). Has she been watching the National Geographic channel when I'm not looking? She belly laughed at the penguins swimming and jumping around, and had endless stories about how the kangaroos jumped to the animal talent show (thanks to the imaginative Little Einsteins show on the Disney Channel for that one!). On our way out, she kept saying, "ooooone more time zoo peese, got it?" I promised we'd go back soon. Probably tomorrow.

Kate was a dream, waking up only to eat and look around for about a minute before checking back out. We call her our little treefrog because of how curled up she likes to sit, so I had to get her picture with the treefrog stuffed animal. It was a beautiful day, and my first official day out in public with the 2 of them by myself! It was a complete success!

We've been on a ton of walks around our neighborhood this week. Evelyn is a chatterbox, pointing out every flower, squirrel, bird, yucky mud puddle and blade of grass. Every once in a while she'll interrupt her constant stream of observation chatter to ask me for fruit snacks or the playground. This weekend we'll be headed up north-- can't wait to take Evs to the beach on our lake and have her take in all the new scenery!