Mother's Day 2012, A visit to the Zoo!

Happy Mid-May and Mother's Day!  This month is flying by!  We celebrated Mother's Day with an early wake up call from Ella, who told me "Happy Mother's time day"  So cute!  Jay picked up coffee and made breakfast (delicious)!  Here are some pictures of our trip to the MN Zoo yesterday.  Ella had a great time - it was so busy though!  Her favorites:  the cows and the fish.  We're at a zoo with all kinds of wild animals and she prefers to visit the cows and fish.  So funny.  But she did like the monkeys and the penguins too.

 Blueberry biscuit something or other (it's a Paula Deen recipe).  So good!

 My gift - a gift card to Best Buy (IPad, come to Mommy!)

Ella and I.  Notice her right eye?  She fell last week and had a huge goose egg above her eye and a red bruise down the middle of her cheek.   I have a better picture near the end of the post.

 Checking out the monkeys at the zoo

 So adorable!

 On our way to the farm to see those cows!

 Saying hello to the sheep and goats (below).  Ella would really say "hello" and she waved to all of them.

 Visiting the young calves

This cow was feeding near the center of the pen and as we were standing there, she came walking right over to us.  It was pretty cool, and Ella of course loved it!

 Getting our first look at the penguins

  Waddle, waddle, waddle

Here's a better picture showing Ella's big ugly bruise above her right eye.  The goose egg went away the next day, and the bruising has traveled the course of colors and is currently yellowish. Never a dull moment!