Annabelle & Max go to the Lincoln Park Zoo

Saturday found us heading up to Chicago to spend a day with Chris and Sacha and their little boy Max. Long time readers may remember that Chris and Sacha both went to IU and were friends back in college. They had Max about a year before we had Annabelle and they blazed the trail for us in the parenting world. So much so that they got us into our first daycare situation with Anna. Anyway, Max and Annabelle are certainly coming to know each other. In the days leading up to the zoo outing, Sacha and Nikki both told the kids what we'd be doing, only to tick them off when they realized that it wasn't for a few more days! They kept asking, "Where's Annabelle/Max?"
Saturday rolled around and the kids were ready for ANIMALS!!!! Annabelle was growling and hooting and squeaking the whole morning and on the drive up, it was pretty funny.
When we arrived at the Lincoln Park Zoo, it wasn't long before they were looking at giraffes, polar bears, and all sorts of critters. It was a great day and we had so much fun.
Take a look at the pictures and there is even a video of the two holding hands and running along. It isn't a terribly long video, but it was enough to catch these two critters in the wild on video at all!


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Daddy's Birthday and an evening at the ballpark

Saturday was Daddy's birthday. The big 33. All I wanted for my birthday was a clear day so I could do some landscaping and a clear evening to take Annie to her first baseball game. As luck had it, we had a great day, sunny and warm all day. The evening proved to hold out just long enough for us to enjoy an evening out and watch Annie take in her first (semi) pro baseball game.
The local unaffiliated team is the Gary SouthShore RailCats. The City of Gary built a really nice minor league park for them in 2002. I have to admit that minor league baseball has a certain charm with their mascots, prizes, games, promotion, and all sorts of things.
Anyway, all I wanted was to head out to the game and see what Annie thought.
Well, she loved it! The RailCats have two mascots, Rusty and his little brother Rascal the RailCats. Annie was mezmorized by Rusty. The video listed below was just too funny and the pics are great too.

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The Walkin Movie!

But wait! There's more! So, my dad pointed out that there wasn't any footage of the kid strutting around, at all. Well, now there is!

View the April 17th walkin' movie here!