Mom helped to cut down on the amount of spit that it took to get the candles out.
You can spit candles out but it's generally frowned upon. Something Trey hasn't picked up on yet.
Score! Thomas the Train magnet book.
Trey loves trains, planes, and (no not just any automobiles) firetrucks. Any present geared toward that or baseball or basketball and he's excited.
"Anything else?"
You gotta make sure you can see right to the bottom of the bag.
"A bag full of tissue paper? How'd they know I was potty training? Dad, did you put it on your blog? Is nothing sacred?"
"Wait! There's something under the paper. Dad, you can nevermind about the potty training comment just in case you didn't actually mention it."
Too late now. =)
"All that work for . . . clothes? Next present!"
That's what happens when you grow like a weed. Clothes become the best present (from a parent's viewpoint).
These are the Beatle twins not looking at the giraffe. George and John are twins and complete half the group. I told the parents to save Ringo for the very last. It'll probably be a girl.
Here's the other half of the party with kids also not looking at the giraffes.
"Giraffes are so yesterday. Let's go see the monkeys."
"Want to help me with this?"
"Of course. Come on everyone, have another drink and lighten the load."
The cool thing about being a kid is that when you get tired, you just lift your feet.
You've heard of a silverback gorilla? Well, this is a redneck monkey.
But he was a good sport and wore the hat so who can complain?
This is a picture of everyone not looking at the camels.
I'm beginning to wonder if anyone saw some animals that day.
"Aaaaaahhhhhhh! It's a blogger with a camera! Mommy, it's a blogger with a camera!"
Bloggers are terrifying enough but give them a camera . . .
Trey symbolizes how much time bloggers feel they spend on the computer.
The gorilla silhouette shows how much time the blogger's family thinks the blogger spends on the computer.
Looking for more dropped cookies. This kid was a pigeon in his previous life, much to the chagrin of his mother. Look at it this way. He was doing a service. The animals aren't supposed to eat that stuff.
This was supposed to be a family picture but Kylie wasn't going anywhere near the gorilla. So they took the chick magnet instead and voila, there's Kylie. Not necessarily happy but she's there.
You have to look close because my camera doesn't have a flash but here's what you're seeing.
There is a huge fake elephant and it makes huge fake sneezing sounds and then it sprays elephant snot (possibly also fake) onto kids that have been placed there by cruel, cruel parents who just laugh and laugh.
Trey would not go near the thing. Not that I tried of course. I'm just sayin'.
Here's a real elephant that blows real snot. I should have gotten a picture of the trainers shirt. Yucky!
"I smell bread."
He probably smells everything in a 3 mile radius with that nose. Ty mentioned that elephants can point their trunk in any direction and smell things for a long way (he knew the distance and now I forget). It gave me an idea. How about drug sniffing elephants for the police departments? Can you just see one going into a mobile home? Ha!
There you go. Now you can see a man drenched in elephant snot. Makes you want to run out and sign up as an elephant trainer, doesn't it?
Elephants are friendly and shake hands if you have their toy or some bread.
Look at that elephant. She's looking. Yay!
The elephants played with that yellow ball. They were very gentle with it. It was amazing to see. One picked it up with its trunk. Not to be outdone, the one in the previous picked it up using its trunk like a vacuum.
No suprise but they can kick hard.
Kylie had to leave early so she scored a hug from Trey. Kylie's mom probably has a better picture of it and has promised to share it. She's the one they are looking at.
This elephant used her trunk to jam hay onto her tusks to carry away like a forklift. One of the trainers said that she does this everyday, carrying her little stash away where she can eat in private.
"I'll get these to you after they are developed."
Developed? Are you living in the dark ages?
No, it's digital really but my mom had a funny story a couple of weeks ago. She was using a camera that had film. "What is this 'film' thing that you speak of?" She took a picture of Trey and he ran over to her. "Wanna see, wanna see." He loves to look at the pictures after they are taken. She couldn't show him. Now she has a digital. A birthday present from her sister.
"Do I make you horny? Well, do I?"
I can't show you his butt because, well, you know. We had it with teriyaki sauce at lunch.
Here's Trey just about to chomp down on two little rhinos. They sure blend in nicely with the rock.
"Happy feet, my ass! I'm in a cage in the wrong hemisphere and it's 75 freakin' degrees out! I gotta heart song for you. 'Get outta my face!' Want to hear it again blogger boy?"
"Dad, did you just hear what that penguin said? Did you really do that to a goat?"
"No son, that's just sick penguin humor. Let's go have a cookie and leave the nice penguins alone."
This is why you shouldn't feed the animals. He did get most of this cookie into his mouth.
Sneaking up on the ghost from behind. Crikey!
I did have Arwin saying "Crikey" by the end of the day. I'm sure it will come in handy for her.
Tis looks like something out of the Alice in Wonderland cartoon. A shovel bird. Maybe an elephant stepped on his beak.
