mini vacay

This past week we headed south to Indy. Upon arrival to the city we headed straight to the Indianapolis Zoo where we meant up with Jennifer and Grant (my SIL and her hubby).  Of course in the whol 3hr drive Ian choose to nap the last 20min of the drive so we had no clue what his demeanor would be like: clingy, silly, or down right grumpy.  Surprisingly he was in good spirits with only a lil' clinginess other than that he wanted to walk by himself  or was content in the stroller so YAY!! At the zoo we saw all your typical zoo animals dolphins (Indy Zoo has a fantastic dolphin show but due to a new calf being born the show was not being preformed while we were there), tigers, polar bears, giraffes (which we got to feed, Ian was of course gun ho about this adventure up until it was his turn in which he tossed the slice of sweet potato over the fence and then was given a 2nd chance to feed and made me do it instead.  FYI a giraffe's tougue feels like sand paper, turtles, snakes, the whole animal works.

napping

penny smashing

snake charmer

we got to feed him

not bad after 3hrs in 90+ temps

Playground fun:

that was a fast slide

mulch in the shoe

being a kid

heading to the playground with Grant

Children's Museum:
Ian slept the entire way, unlike the zoo we didn't take the stroller and I'm so glad we didn't it. I'm still amazed at what all Ian was willing to do without me having to do it too.  FYI: The Children's Museum is one of the best in country, if you get the opportunity to go and visit and you have lil people I highly encourage you to go!

dino digging

just being a dinosaur

train fun

penny smashing

more digging

scuba diving-he didn't like it

polishing up the Hot Wheels car

driving the Hot Wheels car

in case he crosses the pond and needs to know how to drive on the wrong side of the car

and this is the best pic out of 12 taken plus one movie that was accidentally made

I'd say our trip was a success, and we will go back again! We tossed around the idea of heading to the Shedd Aquariuam in Chicago but decided to hold off for now.