Hills of Hayward

Harrison had fun at building green houses yesterday and Anders also went to the zoo for the first time.

Friday is usually Anders’ play day and we always go to the “play and learn” class at Hayward library.  Since Harrison would be gone for Habitat of Humanity, he suggested us to go to the Oakland Zoo too.  It turned out to be a pretty nice day.

At the beginning, Anders didn’t seem to have much reaction when he saw the animals including the tiger, alligator, crane and otter.  Until we arrived at the site of patting the goats and sheep, he became so active - pointing at the directions he wanted to head to and kept yelling, jumping and twisting his body.  :)  When he finally reached the goat, other kids “patted” the goats but Anders “grabbed and pulled” their hairs….  What do you expect?  Of course they ran away from him and I have to chase after them…  Poor mom.

While I was wondering that the zoo is really really small and not so many animals, people pointed us to the other direction saying, “that IS the main zoo.”  Hehe…  I thought it is a small zoo but not THAT small…  Anders’ next favorite is the giraffe and all kinds of birds.  He yelled, talked, danced and jumped for a long time for them but he has absolutely no reaction towards the elephant.  Maybe it is too different from his “singing blue elephant” from.  Ha!

Anders was going through the second round of teething and normally woke up 3-5 times at nights.  He was exhausted and slept much better last night!