Flynn turned 2 on June 17th! Nicole and Owen threw him an awesome party.
Flynn and all the other kids thought that water balloons were the best invention ever, but that they ought to come in an essentially unlimited supply.
Then on Saturday, we got to babysit Flynn all day! After dinner and some playing around the house,
we went to the zoo.
We’ve been wanting to take him to the zoo for a long time, because he’s really into animals. We had a great time. Flynn’s at a really fun stage where he repeats basically any word you say. So a lot of the zoo time was pointing and saying animal names and listening to him repeat them.
It was really interesting to watch his brain work on the categories of animals. So many monkeys look so different from each other, and so many cats look so different from each other, but Flynn could tell that the gorilla was a monkey and that the lion was a cat.
Flynn was really interested in the toucans, with their remarkable beaks, and we stood watching them a while, Flynn saying “Be” (which means bird, due to Mum’s lovebird being named Be), “bird”, and “toucan”. About an hour later, we came to some flamingos. Flynn immediately said “Toucan!”, which made a lot of sense, because they’ve got some pretty big beaks too!
Flynn loves water and everything to do with it. Anytime there was a river or a lake or even a little puddle in a cage, we’d say “look at that animal”, and Flynn would say “AGUA!” and point to the water. Then he would start saying “fish! fish?”. Usually, there weren’t any fish in the water, although we did see a couple. Interestingly, when Flynn saw a duck, he said “Be! Bird! Fish!” :)
Flynn enjoyed the non-live-animal parts of the zoo at least as much as the animal parts, including milking a plastic cow, driving a stationary tractor, and climbing on the animal statues that were outside of most exhibits.
