2nd birthday weekend

percy had a very active birthday weekend. on friday nite her granma and grandad visited for dinner and present giving, then saturday morning was spent in the park primarily getting soaked in the water sprayer over the sand pit, and sunday was a family trip to the zoo!
i particularly appreciated the friends that came to the park on saturday as i hadn't seen some of them for months or believe it or not years!
the zoo trip was interesting as we didn't anticipate percy's reaction to it at all. in the morning while getting dressed etc we told her we were off to the zoo to see lots of animals. she appeared excited to see crocodiles most of all. she's very into being a "snapping" crocodile at present, plus she likes elephants, lions, koalas, wombats, snakes and frogs. however the crocodiles were a huge disappointment as they lay mostly submerged without moving a muscle. we had doubts percy could even pick one out from the water. i think because animals are always so animated in books she didn't get that at the zoo they mostly just lie about. never mind we're sure to make more visits which she'll enjoy in other ways.
a big hit was the seals! she stood at the window where she could see them swimming excitedly exclaiming "pussy cats!" over and over. we did explain that despite them having whiskers these were definately not cats.
there is also a small wading pool that she enjoyed immensely- so much for rolling her trousers up, she was wet to the armpits in three minutes. she very much liked splashing back and forth with her cousins as they had joined us by this time. at home, after zonking out in the stroller on the way back to the car, and a big two hour sleep there was yet another present to open.
percy also got a perfectly lovely edition of winnie the pooh from her oma, who visited over the weekend. it's got a great binding and very sweet pictures all thru it.

p.s. we figure the lioness, havig come within two metres of the glass was quietly humming "enny meeny myni mo, catching a toddler by the toe..." to herself as she sized up the 15 or so specimens lined up in front of her.