WE'RE GOIN' TO THE ZOO, ZOO, ZOO

We finally made it to take these two baby besties to the zoo! and aren't they just the cutest?!

This summer we had been trying to make a trip with some of our best friends (Jacob, Kaylani, & Aubrey) up to the Woodland Park Zoo (about an hour trip up north for us), and it finally happened! Amazing how much work it can be to plan for 4 adults and 2 one-year-olds to go on a day trip! I can only imagine when the day comes where we have more kids to tote along... I'm sure this will have seemed like a walk in the park. I'm sure all the veteran mamas would agree with that :)  

 We ended up having just the most beautiful day for the zoo! helllloooo Washington summers! they are just gorgeous (...and no, it doesn't rain everyday here in the W-A) However, as summer has been reaching its end, the weather has been hit and miss (the reason we had to cancel this trip once before), but we were so happy it worked in our favor and what a fun day it turned out to be!
As you can tell, Harper thought it was a great day! :)

 This girl just LOVED all of the animals! (calling each one of them, from the zebras to the bears, 'daw' - her word for 'dog'). There isn't anything quite like watching her take in all this 'new-ness' for the first time.

While the two girls truly loved all that the zoo had to offer, there were also moments where they could care less about the animals, but had quite the interest in each other :) Not a care in the world that there's a gorgeous jaguar just a foot away on the other side of the glass! but what can you expect when you're with your best friend. 

 Don't those 'da-das' push those strollers like pros?! I think Kaylani and I could get used to this :)

 Two of our favorite animals from the day. We couldn't get over just how stunning the giraffes were.

Walking the entire zoo (which is huge!) made for us all to be quite tired by the end of it. Rather than trucking these two babes out to a restaurant for dinner, we all readily agreed to hit it home and call in a pizza delivery :) 

To top off the day, right as we pulled up to the house, there the ice cream man was! That famous music playing loudly from his truck. Why is it that an ice cream bar tastes so much better when it comes from the ice cream man?! 

"I'll take a strawberry shortcake ice cream, please" :)

These two did so good with the events of the day. With missing their naps (other than a couple tiny cat-naps to and from the zoo), they still had it in them to keep on playing even well after we had eaten dinner.

How fun it has been watching these two (only 2 months apart) have a friendship right from birth :)

Xoxo

-Brittney

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