Killion Photography Blog

We took Holden to the zoo for the first time this week. He had so much fun and was just in awe of everything.   He pretty much ran from animal to animal, stopping when he saw something of interest to stare with his mouth wide open for a few minutes. It was the most adorable thing ever!  His favorites were the monkeys and the penguins. Oh, and we did have to stop and chat with a parrot for quite a bit.  It’s so fun watching kids see things like this for the first time. I mean when he saw the penguins, he was so excited, he started clapping, yelling “yay”, and looking at everyone in the room and pointing to the penguins to make sure they saw them too!!!  I know he was wondering why everyone else wasn’t clapping too and why we were just sitting there staring. I’ll bet when you’re a kid, you think adults are just total duds who don’t appreciate anything worth getting excited about in life. When was the last time you saw something so exciting, you immediately stopped what you were doing and started clapping and expressing your excitement in front of everyone?! I’ll bet it’s been awhile. We could probably learn a lot from one year olds. Since the monkeys were his favorite, he spent the rest of the evening walking around going “eee,eee,ooo,ooo,ahhh,ahhh”. Simply adorable!

So anyways, here is the look of pure awe and wonder that we saw most of the day…that is when we weren’t watching his backside as he ran as fast as he could through the zoo!

And here’s what he was looking at when I took that picture….

When he realized that the parrot was talking to him!