The Fort Worth Zoo

Jacob and Caleb seem to have acquired their Mommy's love for nature, science, and animals. Where else to take two little boys (and a big girl) with such loves? The Fort Worth Zoo! On just our first visit, we opted to get a Zoo Membership! It's $57 per year for adults, and kids under 3 are free. We decided not to get Jon a Zoo Membership this year, because we figure he would really only go with us a handful of times - not because he doesn't also love it, but because his Fridays off and the weekends get so busy already. Zoo Membership includes unlimited admission for the full year, free parking, 10% off at the food places, $3 off admission for my guests, and several other perks. Admission to the Zoo is now up to $10.50 per person and parking is $5, so this would mean we would have to go 4 times to have completely have the membership "paid off." Well, we have already more than paid it off!

Plus I love having a fun place to just go. Oftentimes the weather and the boys' attitudes for the day are "questionable," so I would not want to chance paying $15.50 just to have to turn around a come back home. With the membership, if we get there and one (or both) of the boys have a meltdown, we'll just bring our butts on home - only being out some gas money for the drive there. And we can go just to stay a couple of hours, not feeling pressured to "get our money worth" by staying all day.

Anyway, we love it and have always had a great time! The boys might be "questionable" when we leave, but end up happy when we get there. AND, they nap GREAT once we come home!

I think Caleb likes the Jaguar and Jacob likes the Gorilla best. Of course, they are too little to tell me this, but their actions and eyes speak volumes. Caleb stares in awe and points to the Jaguar, while Jacob makes monkey noises to the Gorilla (although I must say Jacob's "monkey" and "dog" sounds are really awful lot alike - we'll work on it).

We have SO MANY pictures from our Zoo Outings, but here are a few highlights - le Crème de la Crème, if you will.


Checking out the animals.


Leaning forward to get a closer look.


We go with a lot of other twins from McMoms often. Here we are "taking over" the Zoo! People are so amazed to see a caravan of so many precious twins come through. Just wait until we take some of our triplet and quad friends along too. ;-)


The boys and their friends, Lily and Maddie, checking out the penguins for the very first time.


A close up of the boys' faces while watching the penguins. Caleb is pointing with his infamous look of pure awe, while Jacob gets those blues eyes HUGE and looks at me for explanation. They tell me: "This, this??" (It means "what is this?") This is my favorite Zoo picture - sums it all up so well.


Getting pretty sleepy, but we have to make it by to see the Jaguar!


Jacob and Caleb have a goof-ball for a Mommy - but she does have a wing span of a Turkey Vulture! ;-)


This is another favorite - Caleb and Daddy feeding the parakeets.


Daddy is still feeding the parakeet, but we had to get a shot of Jacob's face watching too.


Caleb's sweet, sweet face. He gets so relaxed and calm while watching the animals.


A classic! The boys NEVER sleep in the stroller, but we really just wore ourselves out this day.

Will we continue to go once Baby Gabe arrives? Who knows! But knowing the boys' crazy Momma who thinks she can do it all, possibly yes. After all (to steal a quote from Mr. Jimmy Buffett), "if we weren't all crazy, we'd just go insane!" I mean, that's what it's like having little ones, right?! I could stay home and go crazy or I could take 18 month old twin boys and a newborn boy and make myself crazy. My choice - but either way, I am left being crazy! hehehe I think we will wait at least a month or two before getting Gabe out. Just so that we don't have to nurse every two hours at the Zoo and wait until we get away from the 100 degree, blistering Texas heat. It's always an adventure with these boys!

If any of you local people want to ever go to the Zoo with us, feel free to give me a call anytime. We are almost always up for it!

I am getting better about blogging, so hopefully I'll keep up on pics as we go in the future. ;-)