Oh My! The Bowers/Asmus girls hit the zoo today. (Have I mentioned how much we love this place?) This time it was just us sisters and the Bug. Syd had a grand time, and hardly had to walk anywhere. 
She fed Chrissy, the giraffe, and the goats. 
She also just loves the statues around the place, since she got to crawl all over them. In the aquarium, she ran from tank to tank and pointed out every "shish" or said "wow!" when she didn't know what it was. She especially liked the owl at the bird show. 
Sydney liked the Lorekeets until one landed on her head. 
One of the Lorekeets that landed on me loved my camera and didn't care about the treat I had in my hand.
She fed Chrissy, the giraffe, and the goats. She also just loves the statues around the place, since she got to crawl all over them. In the aquarium, she ran from tank to tank and pointed out every "shish" or said "wow!" when she didn't know what it was. She especially liked the owl at the bird show. Sydney liked the Lorekeets until one landed on her head. One of the Lorekeets that landed on me loved my camera and didn't care about the treat I had in my hand. We got a suprise just as we were leaving. 
The wallaby exhibit wasn't going to open until this Saturday. Of course we didn't know that until we actually got there! Well as we were walking past the wallabies, a group of Zoo directors were being shown how the exhibit was supposed to work (it's a walk-through where you can go inside and walk around with the animals, so cool!). One of the Staff saw us and asked if we wanted to try it out. Of course we did!!! Sydney was beside herself and wanted to run right up to them. Unfortunately we had to stay on the little trail and couldn't let her go over to them. But we got some cool pictures of them.
The wallaby exhibit wasn't going to open until this Saturday. Of course we didn't know that until we actually got there! Well as we were walking past the wallabies, a group of Zoo directors were being shown how the exhibit was supposed to work (it's a walk-through where you can go inside and walk around with the animals, so cool!). One of the Staff saw us and asked if we wanted to try it out. Of course we did!!! Sydney was beside herself and wanted to run right up to them. Unfortunately we had to stay on the little trail and couldn't let her go over to them. But we got some cool pictures of them. (P.S. More pics on facebook!)
I've decided to pick and choose my battles so she can be naked at home, but she understands that she has to wear clothes when we go places or outside. This has made it 
Still trying.........we'll get there......eventually........
This was a very good sized bird. I could go into details about how old it was, if it was a good fighter, and how much he had been breeding this season, but that might reveal exactly how much of a redneck I am, so we won't go there. 
When they brought the big boy home we took some pictures (as you can see) and my sister Beka (aka Carson) ripped some wing feathers out-southern girls, what can we say?
My dad took off the tail feathers so we can dry the spread and save it. No we aren't going to mount it. I'm not that redneck. Then he cleaned it. In a few weeks, when Jess gets back from some of his trips, we're gonna have fried turkey breast. (The breast is about the only edible part of the bird, the rest is too tough.) I can't wait. This is one piece of wild game I can have while pregnant, so i'm gonna enjoy all I can!
Syd donned her pretty new dress and grabbed her basket and all the kids took off. Sydney really got into this whole egg hunting thing. 
She even gathered eggs from an abandoned basket after all the eggs had been found!!!
Later we played with the basketball and Daddy helped her make some slam dunks. 
Then we got on the fourwheeler and rode around the yard a little bit.