The Zoo!

POLAR BEARS!!!

CHETAH!!!

OOOO, says Claire as she looked up at the fish and the polar bears!!

Claire and a goat!~

She didn't really want to pet them which is probably a good thing because we didn't have her covers on her hands.

We took our first trip to the columbus zoo with our memberships yesterday! It was a lot of fun and such a nice day, and A LOT people! Claire had a good time hopefully when we go during the week it won't be as busy and she can see the animals. We had some issues when we would get her out of the stroller to see an animal and then she wouldn't want back in, but until she gets her extendors out I'm not letting her run on concrete. (Mitch thinks differently but I'm not taking the risk of her falling again). We have friends that have memberships to the zoo also and so we plan on MANY trips this summer! And it looks like most of Claire's cousins are going to the zoo too! So they will have a lot of knowledge about animals! Claire had a visit from Newhope on Friday and ofcourse she charmed the pants off of her Early Intervention Specialist. She said "your welcome" and "Thank You" and "Here you go" she was pretty impressed. And so was I! Although when she asked where mommy was she went to the door and grabbed a shoe, I don't know if she was trying to say we leave a lot or what?! The girl has a mind of her own! Sunday is our day to recover from yesterday and tomorrow we have a doctor's appointment in the afternoon in cleveland. I am going to guess they will give us our date for surgery to remove her extendors. We are hoping it is sooner than later I'm going to guess the beginning of June since her extendors are starting to push through her fingers. I can't believe June is almost here, we are excited for summer so Claire can play outside and have tons of fun but hoping her casts are off soon enough for baths and playing in the pool we got for the back yard! We have a few road trips after surgeries and school, To knoxville and Ashville, and maybe a few more. We had to cancel our earlier trips just because of her hand the long trips are worse and it's not fair to either of us. I hope everyone is doing well and enjoying the lovely weather(hopefull it's nice)! We miss everyone and hope we can come and visit or see everyone soon!