First trip to the zoo!

We took E5 to the zoo yesterday and it was SO much fun!!! We were supposed to go last weekend on Mother's Day, but the weather was too lousy, so we went yesterday. I was a little nervous about going because little Eddie woke up at 5:30 and had a hard time going back to sleep. We slept in (until 7:30) and I made pancakes for breakfast. We then decided we would go ahead and get to the zoo (instead of letting Eddie take his morning nap first) and hope that he would sleep in the car.

We got there about 9:30 and it was already pretty crowded. I forgot to pack a hat for E5, so we bought one from the gift shop. We then started out seeing the bears and then moved on to the Penguin House. The zoo is HUGE, so we didn't get to see very much in the 3 hours that we were there. We saw the bears, penguins, apes, monkey house, reptile house, lions, zebras, camels, sea lions, prairie dogs, giraffes, and flamingos. We didn't ride the train and we didn't make it to see the elephants or the River's Edge exhibit, so we'll have to do those next time. We stayed for 3 hours and we thought little Eddie would take a little nap in his stroller, but he was WAY too excited to sleep. He skipped his morning nap all together!!

After the zoo, we took little Eddie to the Central West End. We ate at Culpepper's for lunch and then we walked around. We tried to go to the cupcakery, but it was closed on Sunday. :( We got back home around 1:30 and poor little Eddie was exhausted. He immediately went down for a nap and slept for 3 hours. He then only stayed awake for an hour before he got tired and cranky, so he took a little cat nap at 5:00.

Little Eddie went to sleep at his usual 7:00 p.m., but it was a ROUGH night. He woke up at 4:30 this morning and screamed until 5:45. He then slept until 6:15 and cried again until 7:20. I figured we would have a rough night because we missed the morning nap, but I didn't know it was going to be THAT rough. Hopefully he'll be back to normal tonight.

All in all, it was a GREAT time and I can't wait to take him again! I apologized to big Eddie about the lack of sleep this morning and his response was, "It was worth it. The Zoo was great!" That totally made my day!!! The lack of sleep WAS worth it!!