Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!

In the beginning, of summer vacation, there was a trip to the zoo. It involved three adults and four children aged 2 and under. Thankfully, two of them were mostly asleep in strollers or baby carriers which enabled one or more of us to keep up to the other two. We really enjoyed seeing the animals and visiting Jen, Caitlin & Julia.



Daniel liked the animals, but he LOVED the little train. Perhaps Heritage Park should be our next destination?



The night before our trip, as we were talking about what we might see at the zoo the next day, Daniel said he wanted to ride on a lion. We tried to convince him that this wasn't likely to happen. He sure was excited when he got to sit on this one!



Daniel has been really into dinosaurs since friends gave him a bucketful of them this spring. He was so tired already that we almost skipped going to this part of the zoo, but when he saw the sign he perked right up & walked most of the way through on his own. We had packed three of his favourite dinos in his toy backpack for the van that day- T-Rex, triceratops, & stegosaurus. We saw the first two right away and then Daniel was on the hunt for stegosaurus. It was one of the last ones we found and has henceforth been referred to as the "Sneaky Stegosaurus."




He was so in awe of the dinosaurs that he couldn't stop looking at them long enough to get his face in a picture!

Summer daze

Early in the summer we took a drive out in the country to celebrate Uncle Cor's birthday. While we were there, Uncle Cor took time to show all the menfolk present his collection of restored machinery. Daniel had been impressed as soon as we drove onto the yard and he saw an old car he took to be "Stanley" from Cars. He was even more amazed at all the other vehicles he got to see & climb on. Now every time we see an old car or tractor, Daniel says, "It's just like one on Uncle Cor's farm."