Zoo, Zoo, Zoom

Zoo . . .
Grammy came to town for Daniel's birthday week! We went to the Jacksonville zoo on a blustery day (you can see Grammy braving the cold in her thick jacket). The kids rode the carousel and oohed and aahed over the baby bonobo.


Zoo . . .
I discovered a deep bond with the colobus monkey. Like me, it has a vivid stripe of white hair on either side of its face. I used to refer to my white streaking as my skunk stripe, but as it's spread from the midline out to the edges, that name is no longer accurate. So it's with great satisfaction that I can now refer to my "colobus stripes" instead. It's not as pleasingly alliterative, but you can't have everything, can you?

two colobus monkeys snuggling (the one on the right has its back to the camera)

Zoom!

Daniel asked for another race track cake (a repeat of his third birthday) for his birthday this year. Even more so than most kids' birthday parties, Daniel's party was a celebration of all things sugary. This is because Daniel, whenever anyone asked what he wanted for his birthday, said very slowly and deliberately, "Candy. I only want candy." To his delight, and our consternation, he got EXACTLY what he asked for. And this is a boy who never sits still anyway. (Today's he's wearing a shirt that says, "Been There, Broke That." How true.)