The Detroit Zoo

Hunter has his first trip to the Detroit Zoo last Friday and had a blast! Evan stayed the day with my mom since we wanted Friday to be a special day for Hunter. Special it was! It was great to see Hunter's face light up as he discovered the zoo and all the animals in it! We started in the butterfly house and stayed there for quite some time. Hunter LOVES butterflies and was in heaven with them flying all around him and landing all over the place. The giggles coming from Hunter were music to my ears and his smiles were amazing and bright enough to light up any room! From there we went to the penquins and he loved that exhibit too! Christian was holding him up on the rails so he could see better and he loved every second of it. I am not sure who had more fun there, us or him! After these two exhibits we just wondered around the zoo and stopped throughout it to see the animals. Hunter spent some time in his stroller as well as running around. He was such a joy! Not one meltdown the entire day! At the end of our adventure we stopped at the gift shop and he picked out a stuffed penguin for himself and a little polar bear for Evan. It was so cute to see him trying to decide what to get and take home. He decided all on his own too! Once we hit the truck he was out like a light all the way back to my mom's house. We stayed there for a bit and had dinner and then headed for home. We got home around dusk and the lightning bugs were coming out. Hunter had never seen these before and he had a great time running around and catching them! We even put two into a container adn he brought them in the house at bath time and really wanted to take them to bed with him. I told them that their parents would really miss them if they stayed here. So, we let them go so that they could go home for the night. Overall, Friday was an awesome day and we are really looking forward to taking Hunter to the Toledo Zoo later this month.

I will post some pics once I upload them to the computer.