Happy Birthday, Dave!

Dave got to choose what he wanted to do on his birthday, and he chose to go the Elmwood Park Zoo together as a family!  It was a beautiful afternoon to walk around the zoo.  Of course our first stop was to see his favorite turtle!   Who had a new home, which was rather exciting for Dave.

He then was off to see the prairie dogs and on his way there he found a caterpillar.  

And lucky for us the prairie dog's little babies just came out of their holes this week!  Aren't they so cute.

Then we continued around the zoo and stopped to see the ugly birds.  And Dave thought this was pretty funny.   A zoo ugly bird meeting a real ugly bird through the cage.

Then it was onto see the big horn sheep who also had a new addition.  (sorry the picture isn't that great)

Then since it was a nice day we thought that maybe the otters would be in the water.  But they were eating their lunch!

So after watching the otter's eat lunch, Dave went over the be a turtle.  (which everyone has seen a million pictures of in the past, so I thought I would post him as a monkey this time.)

And can you guess what was the best part of the zoo today?

Dave was so very excited!

The turtles are out for the summer!!!!! 

And are in the big pond this year with the fish and eagles!

It was a great afternoon at the zoo.  When we got home, we had Dave open his birthday present from us!

Happy 4th birthday, Dave!!!!