Reptile Zoo!!!

By looking at this face you would think, ( what is she making that poor kid do ). You guessed it, I did make my poor little Maddy stand in front of this monster of a snake so I could take her picture. I must tell you that she was okay just going up and looking at it, but when she had to turn her back and take the picture, she started to freak. Just look at that snake, it would eat Maddy for a snack. SCARY!


When I got up close to take this picture, I swear this snake looked at me like it wanted to eat me. YUK....I just don't dig the snakes.

This guy was really cool, he was one of Maddy's favorites.

Daddy really liked this guy with his horns.

When we walked up to this tank, I thought oh what a cute little turtle. I then took another look after thinking is my mind playing tricks on me or does that turtle have 2 heads. Well you can see for yourself.

All I could think was squishy puffy cheeks....LOL

This guy followed me around pretty much his whole pen area. He is kinda cute!

While Maddy and daddy were checking out the room that I forbid to go in ( the spider room ) I was out checking out these cute guys. While doing so, the guy that was cleaning their cage asked if I wanted to touch one of the bigger ones??? WHAT ??? Touch one? Okay! By then Maddy and Daddy had make their way over to us and this crazy worker guy just walked into their stinky and I mean stinky pen and just grabbed one. I was a little nervous, but he seemed so sure of it and then he brought it out and said " okay she is calm enough to touch". So the next picture will say it all.


I couldn't believe Maddy was brave enough to touch her. I figured if she can do then momma has to too. I did and it feels really cool. The below picture is of one of my favorite ones. He has the coolest hands that open up and look like 2 hands. Plus his eyes move all the way around.

A STORY THAT WILL BRING A TEAR TO YOUR EYE!

I'm pretty sure everyone has watched King Kong, ( the new version ) well I have been a mean mom and have not let Maddy watch this movie for about 5 or 6 months now. Yesterday Maddy is trying to pick out a movie we can watch together, and she of course asks if we can watch King Kong. I of course feeling bad that I haven't let her watch it, says yes! If you haven't watched this movie, let me tell you it's very long and takes a while until the action starts up, so we always skip it ahead until it gets to the good parts. We had been watching it for a good half hour when I had to get up to use the restroom, and after sitting down for a minute or so, Maddy comes walking into the bathroom crying tears of sadness. I knew they were sad tears, because she was just sobbing and not screaming from an injury of some sort. I finally got her to stop crying a little bit and asked what was the matter, and she says " momma, King Kong is sad....they are taking the girl from him....momma, he is sooooo saaaadd". I almost started crying along with her, I had watery eyes as I hugged her and tried to explain that they would see each other again. I also though ahead and turned off the movie before the end when he dies, I didn't want to see thoes tears. I am a very proud and happy mother to know that my little girl has such a big heart!

Great finds, Great food, and Great people!

Another trip to Value Village and these little buggers had to come home with me. I also got little saucers which both match a set of tea cups I got there a while back. I was so excited to find them, I had to use them in tonight's dinner.

Got this great buy at our friends garage sale....worked great for dinner tonight.

Kept our chicken warm while we got all the other stuff ready for chicken tacos.

I love my new bowls.

Homemade guacamole, ( got this off Tasha )

Yum!

The spread!!! You want some, don't ya???

After dinner Maddy and the boys had a root beer float, which I was told that you can only use A&W root beer.

Yum yum!!!

Her first root beer float.....she loved it!

I'm waiting for this yummy desert!

Check it out.....I can't wait to sink my teeth into it....We are spoiled to have Donald here! I just got word from Jake that it is the best apple pie EVER!!!

Forgotten moments!

I can't believe I forgot to tell some really funny moments at the zoo! When all the animals had been scene, and it's time to go of course Maddy wants to see more. We tried explaining that we had scene all of them, but you don't argue with a 3 year old. We finally convinced her that it was time to go, but I think the only reason she agreed is her feet were hurting....Now this is where Daddy and I started laughing soooo hard. We are walking to the car and she is saying "where is it....can you see it....momma my feet hurt......is the car right here?????" "No Maddy that is a Volvo.....we drive a big silver one"....."Oh, well where is it....My feet hurt.....Momma, where is it????" This went on the whole walk to the car, which was not a very long walk, by the time we made it there I was in tears laughing. Of course we took off her shoes at the car and she was much better. Then we had a whole recap of the zoo trip while she looked over the zoo map. I think daddy was about to pop! By the time we hit the freeway she was fast asleep!

ANIMAL...ANIMAL...ANIMAL

Since the weather forecast was giving us one nice day out of this whole weekend, we decided to see what we could find at the zoo. Boy oh boy did we have some good luck with seeing some really cool things at the zoo, which you will see soon. Just a warning, if you don't have tons of time right now than don't bother. This is only a pinch of pictures that were taken today! Maddy was in heaven watching these little guys!



On the way to see more animals we spotted this friendly guy! He came right up to us, I thought for a moment that I would have to grab him and dropkick him if he tried anything.

We saw a big crowd around these two, I wonder why? They were putting on quite the show for everyone. They got pretty carried away, and would bump up against the glass, making old mom here a bit nervous. Can you believe Maddy wasn't scared at all.



Of course when we get to the monkeys, she freaks out and would not go up and say hi to this fellow. Sorry about the glare, but there were so many people trying to get up close that I had to snap a quick shot.

Then we heard this guy causing quite the stir in the crowd. He was very loud, and his neck would blow up and get pretty big.

His brother here was hiding out until Daddy spotted him, and oh boy he was not to happy having his cover blown. He got all bent out of shape and started in with his brother. We had to make a mad get away before we caused any more trouble...LOL

Of course the fake ones are ok mom! There nice, they really are!

One of Maddy's favorite animals at the zoo!


This guy was pretty mellow, but his friend down below was pretty anxious.

He kept rocking his feet and moving back and forth.

Since the Elephants play with them, of course Maddy had to see it!

These are cute little baby foxes mom!

Dad had to pick her up for a better look.....

and this is what she spotted....

and a very lazy hippo.

One of my favorites of the zoo!

Can you guess what this belongs to???

He was pretty cool!

she went right to it.

This cutie was right under our feet. Maddy chased him around for a while. Dad told her to act like she was going to feed him, so she does and the duck gets her finger in the process. Thank goodness it didn't hurt. All in all we had a wonderful day at the Zoo!