Buddy's Day at the Zoo

I took the Friday after Mac's birthday off from work so we could spend the day together.  I decided to take off the Friday so that Annie and I could have a special day with Mac while Madison Claire was at school.  We dropped her off that morning for school and she was very skeptical about what was happening. She saw Annie packing some snacks for our trip and asked as I got her out of the car - "Where are you going".  We told her we were going home because we didn't want her to lose it before going into school.

We had a great day at the zoo!  Buddy loved seeing the animals - especially the lions, pandas and dinosaurs.  Enjoy the pictures!

A few weeks later, we went back to take Madison Claire to see the dinosaur exhibit.  They are very lifelike - their eyes move, they make noise, even their necks and bodies move.  Madison Claire was so excited to see them because she loves the movie the Land Before Time.  As soon as we went in, she went running up to the first one and once it "breathed" and moved she went white as ghost, froze in her tracks, and squeezed my hand so hard I was sure I would have a mark.  She was terrified.  She started pulling backwards and didn't want to see anymore.  She did like the one long neck dinosaur - I think because they are the nice ones in the movie, and it was so tall that it was far enough away from her she didn't think it would hurt her.  At the very end, they have a HUGE T-Rex and you can see from the picture below that Madison Claire just buried her head onto Ryan and closed her eyes.  Precious.