Feeding the Giraffes

We had such a fun weekend!
Before I get to that, here are some odds and ends pictures from last week. (I still haven't gotten my little camera back from my mom's house so these are just a few random ones I have taken...)
Paiton wearing a super cute outfit last week ready to go to Barbs! She is still doing SO good at Barb's and loving playing with the kids. Last week she even took a nap for Barb! Amazing!
She insisted on taking Swiper and Papa Bear (the bear Papa won for her at Fuddruckers) with her!

This girl LOVES guacamole!
Yes, that is a guacamole hand print on my couch!! :|
We have also been spending a lot of time on the big girl potty. She hasn't gone in it yet, but she does love to sit on it! She has even been wearing her big girl Ni Hao Kai Lan panties, and hasn't wet them, but again hasn't gone in the potty either!!
I started letting her look at books or sit on her potty while she watches a cartoon in the hopes that she'll accidentally go once, but no such luck yet!
And now, the best part of our weekend!! On Friday Paiton and I picked up Mom and Grandma Riggs and headed to the zoo. We met the Lurcooks there and we got in line to....FEED THE GIRAFFES!! I have been wanting to take Paiton to do this forever and we finally had a day where we could! My mom was VERY excited! She loves giraffes and we couldn't wait!
We got to feed a 5 year old named Julius! Paiton loved the giraffe, but wasn't so interested in feeding him, just looking at him! She called him the "Baby App." Giraffe is a very hard word to say! :)
I love this picture of my mom, you can tell how much fun it was!
In addition to feeding Julius, we got to pet him too!! He was very soft! SO FUN!!

Paiton loves zebras, so she was very excited to see one! She was leaning over the fence yelling "Hello Zebra! Hi!!" trying to get his attention. Very cute!
She also LOVED the lions! So did Ryan!
Ryan checking out the lions:
There he is!


"Do you see the lion Ry Ry?"
Paiton kept saying "Lion! RAWR!"

Cute Ry Ry!
When I told Paiton we were going to the zoo the things she said she wanted to see were elephants and pigs! Of course our zoo has neither! This was the closest we got to seeing an elephant:
Then it was time to play in the Jeep!
Playing on the wooden xylophone

Paiton LOVED the Serval cats! We were cracking up because she would go "Meow!" at them and they would meow back! She thought that was pretty cool!
She was also patting her knee and saying "Come here!" like she does to the dogs!
I think she would have stayed all day watching those cats if she could!
Us in front of the monkeys, which of course Paiton made monkey noises at!
Ryan riding the elephant!
Playing in the sand box
Mommy and Pai going down the giraffe slide
B and Ryan
At first Paiton didn't want anything to do with this giant lizard, then she sat on it and didn't want to get off!
Cute lemurs all snuggled together!
Baby in an egg!
Paiton wanted to ride this tiger so bad that she made Ryan get off, and then she cried the whole time she was on it!
We got to feed the goats and sheep too! Paiton didn't like the goats very much, they were very pushy, but she LOVED to feed the sheep, they were very calm and sweet!
After the zoo we walked over to the park and walked around Art In The Park. We love to do that every year. Such a fun day!!
~ I can't believe I forgot to mention this, but Paiton said the cutest things all day at the zoo! My favorite was that at EVERY animal, whether it was cute or not, she would get this high pitched little voice and say "It's so cute!" It was so funny and so sweet. Little does she know that she was, by far, the cutest little animal at the zoo!! :)