A trip to the zoo!

We went to the Houston zoo yesterday! I found out a few weeks ago that every first Tuesday of the month from 2-close the zoo has free admission! It gets pretty expensive for all of us to go, so I thought this would be great to take advantage of. I talked to Holly about going and Ethan and Ella were super excited, too. We picked the kids up from school at 1:00 and headed up to Houston to be there around 2!

I was a little worried about how crowded it would be, since it was a free day. But when we got there there were plenty of parking spaces and no lines! We thought that maybe because school was still in it kept the crowds down. Score!

The weather has been so beautiful lately. It was a little warm yesterday afternoon, but there was a nice breeze and lots of shade. Cooper took her morning nap from 10-12, so she didn't take a nap on the way up. Kendall fell asleep for about 20 minutes, though, so at least she got a short nap. The girls did so great - I was very proud of how Kendall listened and Cooper rode in the wagon the whole time and was so big!

 My big girls in the wagon together. Poor things had my purse in between them, but Cooper just rested her feet on top and played with anything she could find inside.

 She is so funny about shoes. She thinks she wants them on so bad - like this-she puts her foot up in the air for you to put her shoe on - and then we get it on and she immediately wants it off!

Sweet Ella loving on Cooper. Her and Ethan both are so sweet with her!

 Cooper mostly stayed in the wagon, but I did let her get out and walk around a few times. :) She loved this window where she could look at the otters. They held her attention for a long time, swimming and flipping.

I have wanted to ride the Hermann Park train that is right outside the zoo for so long now, but we always come to the zoo in the morning and leave when it's naptime. But yesterday we were leaving a little before 5 and were going to stop in Pearland at Chick-fil-A for dinner on the way home. We figured we would be sitting in traffic either way, so we decided to hang around a little longer and ride the train! I was very excited.

 This was Kendall's first time to ride the train, too. I have such great memories of riding the Forest Park train outside the Ft. Worth zoo with my family after we would visit the zoo, so I was excited my girls would get to do this!

 By now Cooper had not had her afternoon nap and was pretty tired. I kept thinking she might fall asleep on me during the train ride, but she stayed awake for the whole thing! Right when we pulled out of the parking lot though, she crashed, and slept all the way to Chick-fil-A.

We had such a fun day at the zoo and are already planning on trying it again on the first Tuesday in November! Yay for fall and the zoo and fun days with my girls and our best friends!!!