$5 day at the zoo

Sunday, January 11th, turned out to be quite an adventure for all involved. Jason and I decided to break free from our shell and finally venture out for an excursion to the zoo with Jaxon. Thank you for my mother, being the brave soul that she is, staying home with Jillian for over 5 hours. You see, Jaxon and Jillian are very different in two ways...she pretty much refuses to take a bottle and she is ALL ABOUT HER MAMA!! With Jaxon, I could have left for three days and return only for him to pretty much run the other way, luckily he is not like that at all any more or else I would be very sad. But Jillian doesn't like for me to be our of her site for more than a few minutes and she will let everyone know she is not happy. We lucked out in that my mom was able to get her to take a bottle but Jillian cried 4 out of the 5 hours that my mom was with her. Funny, she was all smiles once I returned home...


Things were not much sunnier on mine and Jason's side of town that day. Luck would have it that the day we decided to go to the zoo also happened to be $5 day, yup, only five dollars to get in the door and EVERYONE came to the zoo that day. It took us over an hour and a panic attack from Jason for us to get less that a half mile. Once we got finally got in the door though, things started smoothing out for us and we had a pretty good time. Jaxon rode on a roller coaster, per his request, but decided it wasn't really for him. He and I went on a camel ride and he was able to feed a giraffe. All in all it was a good afternoon with Jaxon. I know he enjoyed not taking second fiddle to Jillian for once and we enjoyed our one-on-one time with him.

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