Potter Park Zoo

Today I decided to take Dallin to our local zoo, Potter Park Zoo. It's not very big, not even close to Hogle, but big enough for Dallin and less than 5 miles away. It only took us about 2 hours to see everything, but I think I only saw 5 or 6 other families there at the same time. It was great. He could run were ever he wanted and I didn't have to worry about losing him in the crowd.

We spent a lot of time watching the lion. The lion had a lot to say and Dallin loved watching him and roaring back at him.
Dallin also had to explain everything he saw to me.What animal we where looking at and why the zoo was so stinky (because the animals needed to chance their bums he said). He didn't want to leave the giraffe statues, and he loved the animal cut outs. They had a lot of them.

They had an area with barnyard animals. Dallin got to feed the goats, which really was him giving me the food and me feeding the goats. I guess he thought they would bit him.
They had some cool fish, and we had to go the the exhibit twice. He kept asking to see the starfish.
Over all, it was a fun trip. They don't have anything great or any really large animals, but they do have lions and tigers and camels. The rest are mostly smaller mammals and birds. My favorite was the otters. They were fun to watch swim around.

Potter Park Zoo is located in Potter Park, so after we left the zoo we played on the playground for a little while. Let me just say it can be dangerous to sit under oak trees in the fall. There are a lot of falling acorns.

We seem to get a lot of rain in Michigan. About ever 3 or 4 days we get a storm. We have been keeping busy inside. I've been doing some sewing (I'll show pictures later if I remember). I think Santa might try and bring Dallin one of those rugs with the roads on it, but until then we need to be a little creative...Masking tape. Makes great roads, plus pulling it up off the carpet is just as much fun for him as playing with the roads was.

We also have been going to the dollar store a lot. We made some fun bath toys from items we bough there. Dallin was so sad when I wouldn't let him take them to church with him. We made
sponge balls and a boat with the extra sponge. Let me just say that the Dollar Tree is great for getting things to entertain a toddler!