Philadelphia Zoo

Last Saturday we had a fun morning at the Philadelphia Zoo with our friends Aaron, Christine and Emory. They so graciously shared their passes with us, all we had to pay for was the parking...and we paid for that twice...I helped Darin recycle our parking ticket...oops!!

We saw a range of emotions come out of Nash at the zoo. He was very excited to be out and about and wanted to look at everything...yes I am trying to instill in our child my hat feddish...he isn't a fan.

He showed us the point and squeal...

The clap for joy...

Climbing to get in with the animals...

And of course the temper tantrum...

I think his favorite exhibits was the monkeys. He was a little weasel and would crawl right up to the front of the groups to get a better look at the monkeys.

I can only imagine what he is thinking in this picture....

He then wanted to become a monkey...

But certainly did not want to be inside of an egg...

The zoo has a treehouse area for little ones to romp around in. Nash, Emory and the daddies loved this part. Darin and Aaron coaxed Nash and Emory through this little log tunnel. It was pretty hilarious watching the dads squeeze out of the end.

After doing it once with the dads, Emory and Nash were brave and would go together.

This picture I think is so sweet. When Emory was scared he would cover a part of his face and hold his moms hand...

Emory wanted a picture with the bears. Isn't he just the cutest little boy!

All during lunch Emory talked about riding the swans. Darin decided to take Nash too. Not such a good idea. Just putting on the life jacket made Nash IRATE and he started screaming. Darin was trying to attend to Nash and couldn't get the swan going so he went backwards for a little while...haha! Then when he finally got over by where I was taking pictures, Nash was looking over Darin's shoulder reaching for me and screaming....at least Emory and Aaron had a nice relaxing swan ride...minus the background noise of Nash crying.

We love giraffes!

We are so happy we got to go to the zoo with friends. Thank you Aaron and Christine! The weather was perfect, there wasn't too many crowds and it wore little Nasharoo plum out!