Today Mama braved taking Daniel to the zoo by herself.  All went fine except for the 30 minutes he insisted on being carried and that was a little tough on Mama’s back.

Daniel had a bottle when we first got there.

While taking his bottle we were really close to the monkeys and they were really whooping it up.   We went to take a look and Daniel just thought they were really loud.

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The turtle was too slow, so I’m not sure Daniel paid much attention to him.

Daniel enjoyed shaking the bamboo.

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The fish were really moving so Daniel really paid attention to them.  He reached for them and wanted to touch them so bad.

We stopped for a snack break.  Daniel had some of his beloved rice puffs.

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He made a little game of putting puffs in his foo and shared a puff with me.

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Our little boy keeps growing up, just like a little weed.  Lately he has liked to spend some time in the mornings in the swing on our back patio.

Daniel was full of things to talk about this morning.  I wish I understood it.

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Daniel was really working on his whistling today.  You could hear the whistling better in this video if he had not also been trying to get the camera.

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Daniel has recently really gotten into driving his cars.  The first video is from yesterday and the second from this morning.

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Daniel has “items” in the dining room, like tea bags and empty plastic containers that he likes to play with.  One of the things he likes to do is to put his items in a basket and either take them out or dump them out.  Tonight Papa tied a string to the basket and lifted and lowered it.  At first Daniel thought that was strange but then really liked it.  He would situate the cargo like he wanted and then start the lift to signal Papa to pull the string.

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We use the word “good” with Daniel a lot about things he has done or food he is eating.  He’s been practicing saying “good” a lot and says it pretty clearly in this video with Mimi and Poppy.

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Daniel still needs help getting up on the loveseat but has mastered the dismount.

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Playing outside is fun.  There is grass to sit and crawl in and lots of “flowers” to pick.

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Daniel is an expert crawler, but when he’s transporting something, he has a funny scoot crawl that he does.

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