Dixie's Blog: Trip to the zoo

Genevieve has finally become interested in walking. She is up to 7 steps now! I have even caught her walking a little by herself without our prompting to do so. It won't be long until she is running all over the place. Of course, crawling is still her preferred way of getting around. She is very fascinated with dogs. We have this CD that we often listen to with her and one of the songs says "Hear the little doggie, listen to him say, woof woof woof woof woof all day" and it does other animals as well. I had the playing in the car and realized she was woofing along with the music. She does this all the time now. She even signs "dog". Of course, she thinks most animals are dogs but she'll get there. We went to the Puyallup Farmer's market a couple weekends ago and there were lots of dogs. She loved it. She was wildly signing "dog" and woofing. Another new sign she has is "Cheese". This girl loves her cheese. When she is done eating her cheese she wants more cheese. She must get this from Chad because it certainly didn't come from me! On the 12th we went to the zoo with My dad and TJ. Travis is in recovery from his knee surgery so it was helpful to get TJ out of the house. We had lots of fun. I think Genevieve loved the aquarium the most. She could see things up close at the aquarium. TJ got tuckered out pretty early on. He just sat in his stroller and said, "I done". Gen got to the point to where she was tired but was fighting it.

Going to the zoo.

TJ and the Lemurs.

TJ going down the slide.

Hey look at that!

I think this is Gen watching the parrot intently. He squawked, she cried. Later he squawked again and she cried again, so we left. Gen is really sensitive to loud noises.