The Denver Zoo

Today we asked the kids what they wanted to do and unanimously the kids yelled, "We want to go to the Zoo!" So...off we went! It was actually a nice day to go. Other than it being a little too cold for me, it was awesome. There was hardly anybody there and we all had a great time. Titus was excited for two things: The bird sanctuary and seeing real bats!

"Birdie" at Bird World 

Titus has been on a total bird kick lately. For weeks now he's been asking us to buy him a "real talking parrot" so he was really hoping to see one there. Of course the moment he saw two giant Macaw birds he said, "See mom...there they are! Let's just go get one!" (while cocking his head to the side and shrugging his shoulders as if to say "It's not that hard mom you just pick one of those giant birds up and carry it right out of the zoo"....NO PROBLEM!) I tried to explain to him that you can't just buy the animals at the zoo but he wasn't quite gettin' it. 

 

These were the birds he wanted me to buy for him.

He also loved getting to see real bats flying around. We had to reassure Max that they were, in fact, behind glass and that they wouldn't fly over to him and suck his blood. They were both fascinated by the vampire bats and we have since had many discussions on who's blood they actually suck!

Max's favorite part of the day was seeing the penguins. We actually got to see them get fed and hear all sorts of interesting facts about them from the zoo dude (or are they all called "zoo keepers" if they just feed the animals? Oh well, whatever...)

All in all, we had a great day and I was so thankful to have the time to spend together as a family!