Kansas & The Zoo

Over Spring Break we all took a trip up to Kansas for the week to see Granny (Shelby's Mom). We spent most of our time rebuilding the corners of a pasture fence. Everyone pitched in and helped, Granny, Charlie, Emily, Kaitlynn and myself. Of course Shelby did almost all of the heavy, heavy work. I was able to help when the girls were both asleep. Emily helped some, and loved playing in the soft dirt from the holes we had dug.

One day we took a break from building fence and went to the Sedwick County Zoo in Wichita. WOW what a great zoo!!! Emily absolutely loved seeing all the different animals. Some of her favorites were the turtles (pictures below), the gorilla's, giraffe's and the hippopotamus' (you sould here her pronounce that one, HA, HA!)

We spent about 5 hours looking at all the differnt animals. Thankfully we had the handy, dandy double stroller! Emily loved the part of the zoo where she was able to feed some of the animals. She was not one bit afraid of goats and sheep and she went into fed them. She was able to get about 2 feet from the giraffe's and loved it!
Granny bought us lunch at the zoo, and Emily got a kids meal, which came with a plastic monkey head lunch box. She loved it, and always wants to take her snack in it where ever we go! Thanks Granny for the great keepsake! We will always think of our wonderful day at the zoo when we use it!! It was an exhausting day, but well worth it. We all loved seeing all the animals and seeing Emily's expressions everytime we saw a new animal was priceless! We highly recommend going to this zoo if you are ever in the Sedwick County area. A few more animals at this zoo include 3 toed sloths, sting rays, penguins, rinos, lions and tigers and bears (oh my!), a bald eagle. bats (little and big), parrots, wolfs, one animal that looke half zebra and half giraffe, kangaroos and many, many more. If you are really interested you can visit their website.

These turtles were bigger than Emily and would stand up and let the zoo keeper clean under their shells (you can see it in the background a little bit)!

Emily watched this turtle for about 20 minutes

She did not even have to get out of her stroller to feed this rare sheep.

Kaitlynn enjoying chewing on her shoulder strap.