Zoo...lovin' the monkeys!

So for Luke's birthday, one of his presents (from Gramia and Grandpa) was a membership to the Reid Park Zoo here in Tucson! We went with a group of friends from my mom's group a few weeks ago and had a great time! Luke loved the monkeys...hummm...enough said with my little monkey below...

Notice any resemblence???

I do see one difference...mine is wearing clothes!

We were there early in the morning before it got too hot (our temps had been in the 90s...yes it was only February). The monkeys were going crazy and swinging from the fences and ropes not to mention each other! We sat there for a good 20 minutes just watching them! It was great to see Luke get so excited about them.

We also met Bali, the resident male Lion at the zoo. He is 21 years old and has a 17 year old son that both live at Reid Park Zoo. Luke got a lion stamp that was definately a hit!

Luke also really liked the elephants. They have an African and an Asian elephant. We watched them eat breakfast and water and mill around their area playing...well as much as elephants play...they are big animals!

Luke turns 2!!!!

This is so long in coming, I obviously fell down on the job but here goes! Luke turned 2 at the beginning of February! We celebrated on his actual birthday with his favorite meal....hamboombooms (hamburgers) and french fries! We had our neighborhs from across the street over for dinner and cake (chocolate of course!). I was actually planning on making his big birthday cake for his party, so this was a good practice cake!

Luke was so excited as you will see in this video, he loved us singing to to him and being the center of attention!

Just the Day to Day!

Luke LOVES to color so he is hangin out in his chair coloring "Hano Manny" (Handy Manny) one afternoon! He is also pointing to his mouth where he is sporting a wonderful shade of blue or green marker! Gotta love those washable markers...his shirt was covered too by the end of our coloring session! So far it looks like his favorite color is orange...we will see if that sticks!