zoo trip and more

It was a beautiful day for the zoo yesterday (judging from the huge crowd, I'll say everyone else was sick of being cooped up for the last month, too!).  Rachel's been asking and asking to go, and I wanted to make sure we got there before school starts. 

Rebecca made lots of animal noises as we saw the different animals.  She makes a barking noise for pretty much every animal she sees, until I tell her the correct sound. 

She was scared of these goats at first, but it didn't take long for her to muster up enough courage to go touch it. 

Then she plopped down behind this sleeping goat and petted him to death (until some other kid came over and purposely SHOOK the poor goat awake!)

Yesterday afternoon we played outside  (making up for lost time, I guess, and all of the time we've had to spend inside over the last month of soaring temps).

Enjoy the pictures!