Animal Fun

Since our new baby is due VERY soon, I have been starting to feel the guilt of "I'm going to be a bad mother as soon as my new baby comes," so I have been trying really hard to do fun things with Jared and Maggie, even when I haven't really felt like it.  We have been to the zoo, the dinosaur museum, and the planetarium recently.  These past couple of weeks we went to the aquarium and to the aviary.

Alan's parents actually gave us passes to the aquarium a year ago as a gift, and we have loved it!  I have taken the kids probably once every 3 weeks on average.  We went twice this past month, including the day before the passes expired. I plan to renew our memberships once the "bigger and better" (and closer to us!) aquarium opens around Christmas time.  

Jared making a snake face (???) in front of the green tree boa.  He is OBSESSED with snakes.

You can see one of the South American tarantulas in the bottom left corner of this cage. Yuck.

Maggie loves the turtles, big and small, at the aquarium the best.

Jared is officially taller than the Emperor penguins.

These next pictures and videos are from our trip to the aviary.  I feel like the aviary is totally underrated!  It is actually quite interesting, I don't consider myself a bird-lover by any means.  This is our second time there, and we will be sure to go again soon when Alan can come with us. (P.S. It was fun to run into you there, Crystal!)

This is the southern hornbill making its noises in its throat.  

In front of the southern hornbill

This candor was gracious enough to show us its wingspan

Tiny birds that can be found in your backyard if you lived in Argentina, apparently

More "backyard birds" of Argentina

Flamingos

Crane

Peacock on roof

Peacock on fence

I asked Maggie what the peacock says

This toucan was making a racket

Trumpeter swans

We paid a quarter for food and fed the ducks for a few minutes