It's a Jungle Out There!

Mer has been talking about going to "the jungle" for months, and we kept talking about how we should take her to the Rainforest Cafe so she could visit "the jungle."  We decided a trip to the jungle and Build-a-Bear was the perfect celebration for Mer's last weekend as an only child!  She spent the night with Gamommy last night (and called me crying at 10 o'clock because she wanted me to come get her...and of course I wanted to!) so when we picked her up this morning we told her we were going to the jungle!  She was so excited...at first..and then in the most serious voice, she says, " But I don't like snakes!  I don't want to see snakes!"  We made a point, once we were there, to avoid the giant snake wrapped around a tree branch overhead - ha!

It took a lot of coaxing to get her to sit on this wall under the huge giraffe!  Not that you can tell in the picture anyway, but she was wearing her giraffe shirt, so she needed a picture with the "real" thing - ha!

My two favorite people with a parrot!

She was NOT a fan of the crocodile.  There were kids surrounding the thing, and she wanted no part of even getting close to it - real or not - and had a death grip on Brian!

"I love elephants!" she said.

She really liked watching the fish, but was afraid of those at first too.

There was so much to look at all around us!  When the thunderstorm would start though, she would get so afraid and say she didn't like the thunder and lightning.

Yikes - Mommy's looking a little rough these days!  I need this baby out of me!

Before lunch, she wanted NOTHING to do with this talking tree, but by the time we finished eating she was begging to go back and see the tree and have her picture taken with it.

After lunch we were off to Build-a-Bear.  There is nothing nearer and dearer to this girl's heart than a stuffed animal - ha!  She picked out the calico cat, with a "meow" sound in its foot, and no clothes for it - because cats don't wear clothes.  Thank goodness.  Anyone knows me knows how much animals wearing clothes bothers me - so glad this girl thinks the same way!  Ha!

Meet the newest member of her menagerie - Catty.

We had such a fun day, and on the way home all talked about what our favorite part of the day was.  My favorite part was spending the day with my sweet girl, Daddy's favorite part was seeing Mer laugh so much, and Mer's favorite part was the jungle cats!

I just love these two!!