Back to the zoo

Apparently a 60-degree sort of drizzly day is the perfect day to hit the zoo. That, or the animals just REALLY like us. Here are three elephants:
The leopards were cooperative again.
Who even knew there were two? This is the second.
The sea lions were swimming loops right in front of the glass--a bit intimidating for Em.
A penguin posed in the window for us
As did a monkey--much to Emily's delight.
The gorillas (?) were up and about.
The ocelot even came near.
And a black bear.
We found more goats to pet. She liked this one because it was "chewing gum".
This polar bear was playing with a giant plastic barrel.
Then there were two others--one pacing on land, the other swimming laps.
The lap-swimmer would go over to the right, lay on his back & push off, then swim on his tummy across and start over.
Ellen really enjoyed all of this, of course.

Owls that were "a little scary" to Em.

Yet another close-up encounter: mountain lion

Laughing

You have to understand that you usually get "seconds" when we show videos--we enjoy what's going on, and then grab the camera. So Ellen was laughing a lot more prior to this video, but you get the idea.

Cutie

As much as she pretends to be a Mommy's girl, Ellen loves her Daddy's snuggles.

OMSI

My parents gave Emily an annual pass for OMSI for her birthday, and today we made our first trip. She played in the water a little:
She LOVED the balls (in the infant section, of course):

One of her favorite parts today was the dinosaurs


She actually touched the snake, but the camera took just a little too long and I missed it.
Much of the day was spent looking like this blur:

Chubby

Ellen is definitely a chubby kid, and weighs more than Emily did at the same age, but my family seems to think that Emily was always skinny. I need to post these pictures of Em when she was roughly the same age--see, chunky.