We got passes for The Good Zoo at Ogelbay today. It helps to have a sisterinlaw whose sister a - works there and b - adores your children. CrazyHorse and Hubster have been picking berries like there's no tomorrow all week and we took some to the zoo today for Enrichment Day (when they give the critters fun stuff to do - like ripping apart paper mache stuff). We watched the African Wild Dogs tear up some paper mache fire crackers and the woman - I think she's in training to do the kid tours and stuff - asked about his name (his real one not the one I use here though they come from the same place) and he told her it was a lakota souix word. I'm not sure if she didn't know the lakota souix are American Indians or what but she decided that CH & the AFRICAN wild dogs have something in common. So it didn't surprise me at all when, regardless of the sign, he kept calling them American wild dogs. Anyway after that we made our way over to the ringtailed lemurs. CrazyHorse got to take the berries and go inside the enclosure to feed the lemurs. By hand. As in, he held the berries and they took them. From his hand. Of course, at this moment, my camera decided to eat its batteries again. Again. Fortunately, hubster got a few pics on his phone so hopefully he can figure out how to send them to the computer and I can post them. I'm not sure he fully realizes just how cool it is that he gets to do stuff like that. He's gotten to play with baby kangaroos and feed the otters and now the lemurs. We also fed some overripe strawberries to Petunia the Pig. Throughout all of this Wolverine was a basketcase. Crying and screaming and generally being a fussy fussy boy. I really hope this phase goes by quickly. I know a lot of it has to do with him needing to be away from me a little bit more. He and I are together almost 24/7. That's got to stop or he's going to be even more clingy later... on the upside - this food thing appears to be settling in some. Not sure its doing anything but - can't hurt him not to eat artificial crap either.
Posted by Shade53 at July 5, 2008 08:30 PM