"Funky green bench" and the wild animal park

When the description on craigslist said, "funky green bench", I knew I had found the answer to our table seating dilemma. It's green, but fits nicely in our apartment space, and will be handy when we have people over for dinner. The girls love it (unless Claire's plate wanders too close to Ashlyn's plate during dinner), and Lara likes having an alternative to her high chair.

We took a trip to the wild animal park and it was the first time Lara really appreciated what she was looking at. Ducks are her favorite right now. Being 15 feet away from a tiger just didn't do anything for her, but man those ducks. All the girls are becoming quite the little picture posers. We had a great time posing by the mom and baby gorilla statue. The gorillas were "off exhibit" when we were there, so we had to make due with statues. and gorilla/man comparison charts.

One of the highlights of our visit was the acrobats from Tanzania. We all enjoyed the show, except for Lara. about 10 minutes into the show Lara became very nervous about the guy doing the limbo under a pole that was on fire. Lara kept saying "All Done" and waving her hands. I finally turned her towards me and she buried her head against my shoulder for the remainder of the time. These guys were pretty amazing.