We Love the Zoo!

Mom and Dad, you have made Stella one very happy little girl by getting me a zoo pass for my birthday. This little girl is so happy at the zoo.  She really loves the goats in the petting zoo. She gets really excited about touching them, but can’t quite bring herself to pet them. She also really loves all the other kids and she walks around waving to them and showing them her belly.

Stella went nuts over these pretty white foxes. They were running back and forth and Stella was so excited about it.

She also really loves these little statues. Sometimes I wonder if she thinks they are real. She had a little crowd of people watching her play with this Rhino because she was being so cute.

I have learned to strap her in tight in the stroller because she can maneuver around and stand up. Silly girl.

Stella had the time of her life in the manitee/stingray room. This was right up there with the goats.

Making friends:

She loved the aquarium room, too. She kept running up to the glass and then running back to me and saying “Love ya! Love ya!” and then she would run back to the glass. She could stay there all day.

We also found a little fun little Australian and Pacific Islands bird aviary that was completely empty. We stayed for a good 45 minutes just looking at all the cool birds.

Kookaburra:

The Kangaroo Walk Through is one of our favorite spots in the zoo!

I’m pretty sure Stella full on sprinted to catch up to that Kangaroo. She just took off after it and would have given it a big hug if I didn’t pick her up at the last minute. Right as Stella got to the Kangaroo, it took on big jump and cleared the fence on the other side. A few seconds after its friend from the other side jumped right in front of us and cleared the fence, too, to join its friend. It startled us both, but it was pretty amazing!

We love having a zoo pass because we can go for and hour or two and take our time at each place. We just take each exhibit slow and Stella just loves it so much. We don’t feel a need to see the whole zoo and there is still so much to explore, so we keep going back. We will have this pass until we leave Columbus in a year, so expect lots more zoo pictures. Thanks so much for the zoo pass, Mom and Dad!

Stella in the Spring

Its been an up and down spring. One day its snowing and the next its 70 degrees. But Stella is cute no matter what the weather is like, so here are some pictures of her just doing her thing!

Stella is obsessed with bubbles. She asks me multiple times a day “bu bu?” When we blow bubbles with her, she says “pop!”  And as much as she loves bubbles, she loves putting the cap on the bubble container and taking it back off over and over just as much.

She really loves her dad. While he is gone, she will randomly look up at his picture and say “love ya, dada”.

Soaking up the sunshine!

Stella is kind of a pig. In this pictures she is devouring some veggie tikka masala and naan bread. Sometimes we just let her get all messy and have fun and then stick her in the tub.

Sometimes we have bad hair days. Still cute right?

And some days her hair makes me want to cry because its so stinkin cute and sweet. Doesn’t she seem so tall and grown up in this picture?

Swinging is one of her very favorite things to do.

She is a big fan of sliding, too.

Most of the time she walks, but who could resist crawling through the green grass?

And I have no idea why she is crawling on the rough cement? Silly girl.

She LOVES her shoes:

Oh…those eyes!  They melt my heart.

She is talking more and more every day. Here is a list of her words: mama, dadda, uh oh, Jesus, Temple, bird, book, balloon, puppy, baby, poo poo, yuck, love ya, duck, clean up (its more like “neen nu” but she sings it because I am always singing the clean up song), dog, more, nana (food), bubble, ball, ya, hi, all done, nose, eyes, nap, and wow. They aren’t all pronounced right and many are shorter versions of the word, but she is figuring out how to communicate. I just adore her. I could go on and on gushing about her. She is the sweetest, silliest little girl and I am amazed by her everyday.