Riley wouldn’t let dad take her picture tonight …
… so I’m pretending that I’m the only kid in the house.
THIS IS ME BEING THE ONLY KID IN THE HOUSE.
(You really should let Dad take your picture if he’s going through the trouble of waving the camera around.)
(C’mon!)
Right. So. Anyway. Only kid in the house.
I figure I’ll take this opportunity to do two things:
(1) Look super cute.
(2) Play with toys and not worry about someone grabbing them.
Oh, the freedom.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is a ball.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is the ball’s universal product code.
And this, ladies and gentlemen …
… is how I roll.
We finally got to go to the Butterfly Pavilion again today.
A red-footed tortoise lives there! Some nice lady was asking me questions about tortie.
Ummm …
See …
Hey look! A butterfly!
Phew.
Dad has some really cool studio lights …
… so he left them packed up and he parked Riley and me near a window!
I was showing off all my new finger-mouth sounds …
… but Dad told me to stay still for a minute.
Knock yourself out, big guy.
Riley really wanted to see owls at the zoo today!
Now, keep in mind that there are no owls at the zoo.
Oh, no! No owls!
That’s OK. Mom and dad just pretend that the zoo’s tawny frogmouth bird is an owl. Riley buys it every time.
The tawny frogmouth lives in the zoo’s Bird World building, where I am now. There are birds everywhere. Um–wait–did I step in something?
Curse you, roseate spoonbill!
Even when she was looking at the penguins, Riley was really excited about going to see the tawny frogmouth owl.
Here it is. Hrm. I know owls. Owls are friends of mine. Tawny frogmouth, you’re no owl.
It worked out, though. Riley thought it was an owl, and then we all went to feed the lorikeets.
They were super hungry today.
Riley was super hungry today too. She ate a gigantic bowl of strawberries after lunch.
Usually Riley spends three-quarters of her time in Lorikeet Adventure washing her hands at the magical sinks, but they were out of order today. So she had to focus on the ‘keets.
Mom had five of them on her arms at one time! Sorry–there is no photographic evidence.
They even perched on dad.