It has been a beautiful week in the bay area. I feel like I've spent most of the week outside. Today, I took the boys to the zoo. As soon as the word was mentioned Manny was super excited. He's been watching Madagascar nightly, so he's always talking about giraffes, lions and zebras....oh, and hippos too.

We got to the zoo around 11:00 a.m. I seriously think that Manny ran from one exhibit to the next for the first hour that we were there. It was so fun to see how excited he was.

It is amazing to watch Manny grow. He is such a head strong, independent little boy. He knew exactly which animals he wanted to see, and the order in which he wanted to see them.

First, he wanted to see the giraffes, which was lucky because they are the first exhibit after entering the zoo. Next, he wanted to see the bears. The unfortunate thing about that was that they were on the complete opposite side. On our way to the bears we saw monkeys, gorilla's, and zebra's.

I had to carefully bypass the marry-go-round because I didn't have any cash on me, and if he had seen the horsies (which he mentioned by the way) there would have been a meltdown to end all meltdowns.

We finally made it to the grizzly bear exhibit. One of the bears was taking a bath, while the other bear was sleeping. I think we spent about 15 minutes just staring at the bears.

After the bears we saw tiger cubs (that are HUGE by the way), lions, and penguins.

It's been a really beautiful day, but I was hoping for a storm this week. John and I want to take the kids to the snow for some sledding, but we won't be able to if this nice weather keeps up. Let's all pray for some rain!