You think you're tough, here have a toddler, Part I

Posted by Aaron at 10/22/2008 08:50:00 PM

Shanna and I were marginally prepared for having an infant. Having a toddler has totally caught us off guard. First of all, they need to be entertained. Ezra the infant was happy staring off into space. Ezra the toddler will tear our place apart if we don't get him out of the house. Fortunately, two major perks about living in southern California is that the weather is usually nice and there are lots of things to do. This weekend we pulled out all the stops.

El Tigre
Mira! El tigre!

First up was a trip to the zoo. This was our third trip to the zoo in the past year (not to mention zoos elsewhere) which put us over the cost effectiveness threshold for buying the membership. We've learned an important trick. The food at the zoo sucks. I imagine this is true even if you don't eat vegetarian there as we do. Bring your own food.

Petting zoo goat
Without goats, what would we put in our petting zoos?

The zoo playground very good, but for a new toddler's parents, not for the faint of heart. It is packed with children, most of whom are a couple of years older than Ezra. The structure itself is large and generally intended for older children; there are plenty of Ezra size gaps he could fall through if one of us wasn't preventing him. However he loved walking around the play structure and climbing the animal statues on the ground, even though he nearly got mowed down by a bezerk four-year-old a couple of times.

Isn't this a limerick?
Isn't this a limerick? "There once was a boy on a hippo"... Okay, maybe not.

Stay tuned for more later. If you've missed last weeks Flickr posts, look here, here, and here. We also posted a video on Vimeo, here.

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