trip to the zoo

We celebrated Liam's 1st birthday by going to the zoo. Liam loved seeing all of the animals (especially the animals from his favorite books). We saw the gorilla, lion and elephant from Goodnight Gorilla, the tiger from Zoo Picnic, and the hippopotamus from But Not the Hippopotamus. Liam was very quiet while taking in all of these new sites and sounds...but as soon as we started to leave he chatted up a storm as we passed the animals we had already seen (it was like he was telling us all about what he saw!) The coolest part of the whole day was we were in the Gorilla house just 1/2 hour after a new baby gorilla was born! It was amazing to see how small he/she was and to wish a happy birthday to a new life on Liam's birthday.