the zoo

We just got back from a morning at the zoo. Yes, I'm already posting my pictures. My kids are wiped and laying on the couch so I have a little time. :) 

We hadn't been to the Pt. Defiance Zoo in a really really long time. It had been two years since they had even been to the Seattle Zoo AND Molly had never been. So we decided to go. Just the four of us. 

Everyone loved it.

(pretending to get their photo taken in the photo booth)

My favorite is always the sharks. Molly seemed to really love all the fish, sharks, walrus, and anything underwater and behind glass. She would get really excited and it was pretty cute.  I bribed the other two with Cotton Candy to go into the shark area. Kyla said she was "on it" and everyone ended up having a great time in there (and then all four of us got to have a few handfuls of pure sugar whipped into cotton). 

Another exciting attraction- birds that you get to feed. It was crazy! Kyla was brave and did it. Heidi chickened out so I took her stick. Having birds fly onto your arms and hands is a little intense. These pictures are blurry because I was a little flustered with all the birds flying all over us and holding Molly at the same time. BUT I love Kyla's face in them.

Kyla was in charge of the map. We were on a quest to find their school mascot...the Polar Bears. We did and that was so awesome also. But we didn't get any pictures except with my phone. Once again, I was holding my bag, camera, phone, a sticky cotton candy Molly and trying not to loose all my children in a crowd of people. 

Super fun, spontaneous day with my girlies!