Lions, Tigers, and Bears: Oh My!

While visiting Grandpa Roy and Grandma MJ up in the DFW area, we took a day trip to the Fort Worth Zoo. It was Quinlan's first zoo experience, and he really enjoyed it, as did his entire entourage of Mom, Dad, Grandpa Roy, Grandma MJ, Auntie Jenni, and Shelby. We made it through most of the exhibits, only skipping the reptile house and the Texas exhibit because of time--the poor kid needed a nap and lunch pretty badly!

Q and his Mom in front of the orangutans--we got to watch the female spit at the male when he tried to steal her snack. We hoped Quin didn't learn any new tricks.

Fish! Q loved watching the ducks and koi swimming around on the pond.

If we can teach him to say flamingo, I think he'd really impress people.

Quinlan and his Dad, watching and learning about the gibbons. Q did not want to be in his stroller because he was worried that he'd miss the cool animals, so Dad carried him a lot.

Adorable!

Giraffes!
Q consistently points to all of the animals in the books we read (and we've been reading a lot of animal books lately), and he really seems to like the giraffes.

Listening to Mama lecture about the difference between primates and
monkeys--note the glazed eyes.

Quinlan's first carousel ride!
Shelby and Jenni graciously offered to take him.
Of course, as soon as he saw his Mom watching, he burst into tears.

You can see Q trying to make his elephant sign--the lifted arm and the trumpeting noise--we tried to catch it on video, but he was really quiet and there was a lot of background noise. He usually does it on command now, whenever you say, "Elephant."

Quinlan poses on the same komodo dragon that his Mom sat on when she was a
little kid visiting the Fort Worth Zoo.

All-in-all, it was a great day trip to take and Q really had a lot of fun. It was fun to watch him sign for "more" as we walked in between exhibits. We had a wonderful family adventure before returning to schedules and work.