Deegan's First Trip to the Zoo!

Well I'm already doing horrible at this! haha. Go figure. I've been meaning to post pictures of Deegan's first trip to the zoo, but just never got around to it until now!

Okay, so Grandma and Grandpa Gochnour wanted to take Deegan to the Hogle Zoo in SLC when they went to pick up Andrea from the airport. Of course I said he could go, I knew he'd love it.  He was supposed to sleep the whole way there because we didn't get there until his nap time, but he didn't fall asleep until we were going up the hill so he got a total of about 5 minutes of sleep.

Deegan when we first got there

At first, he was happy to be out of the car, but he wasn't really engaged in the whole zoo experience.  That is until he saw the giraffes... and well, I've never seen him so excited. It was so cute!

Grandpa and Deegan looking at the giraffe

He wanted to pet it so bad

This picture says it all...

The next animal that he really loved was the monkey! He thought it was so cool when they were swinging around.  He did this cute little chuckle that I've never heard him do before.  The video is below, but its only the first few seconds. The rest of the time I was just trying to figure out how to turn it off. haha.

He really enjoyed the park altogether.  Here are some pictures to overview the day:

Grandpa and Deegy looking at the rhinos

Two of his wonderful grandparents

He'd much rather ride with gma than in his stroller, so yep, I just pushed around an empty stroller most of the day.  But the stroller housed the lidless drinks which kept spilling on me. At least I was good for something! ha.

Deegy and mommy in Asian land

They weighed as much as a baby elephant

Sitting on the big elephants trunk

It was huge!!!

Deeg and gpa next to a baby elephants skull

D and gma sheri

 Madagascar

Grandpa let him be a big boy and stand on the railing while waiting for the train

Crawling through the log in toy land

Pretending to be a turtle

Sitting in the tarantula thrown. Big shout out to sissy right here ;)

We went in the little ground hog tunnel thingy, but we couldn't see any and it was soooo hot so we were only in there long enough to take a picture.

...and then he was out before we made it back down the mountain.

~ Thanks again Grandma and Grandpa Gochnour