love of my life.

this little girl is the love of my life!!!!!! I simply adore her. she makes me feel such sweet joy & I am so grateful to be her mom. my heart is so full of love for her.

the zoo.

We took Adelie to the zoo for the first time yesterday. Sadly, we picked the wrong zoo to visit. The Minnesota Zoo is lame!!!!!!!! There are 2 zoos in Minnesota: the Minnesota Zoo & the Como Zoo (which is between Minneapolis/St Paul). We picked the wrong one. The Como Zoo has WAY BETTER animals! The Minnesota Zoo is lame. lame. lame. No elephants. No giraffes. No zebras. No penguins. Aren't those standard at any zoo?? Nope. Not so. I was really excited yesterday when I saw a picture of puffins...I thought the exhibit we were seeing next was a puffin stop...nope...just a nice photograph. The Como Zoo has puffins. Next time (and probably from now on, unless they do some major renovations & animal additions at the Minnesota Zoo) we will be Como Zoo visitors. I love seeing giraffes and penguins and elephants...

Anyway, Adelie liked the aquariums. I think she liked seeing the fish swim by & all the colorful coral. Other than that, the zoo was disappointing. Next time will be better!

our sweet "LITTLE A MONSTER"

We gave Adelie a nickname shortly after she was born: "little A monster". Of course we have many loving, tender nicknames for the little peanut, but "little A monster" describes her ferocious little appetite/attitude that she likes to display lately. She will eat (correction...TRY to eat) anything these days!!!! HILARIOUS!

Here is a post dedicated to her aggressive eating techniques.

Watching her try to eat the tissue pom-poms was outstanding! So entertaining! And I personally LOVE the photo of her eyeing up my ice-cream cone.

(and, NO I did not let her test out the ice cream...just in case any of you were worried)