Highlights from four hours at the zoo

Here she is intimidating the hell out of a leopard.


Then we ate some snacks, or as Lyla would say, "Nacks!"


Today she was all about the cows. We were in the big smelly cow barn, cows on one side, cows on the other side, and Lyla looked around and said, "More." Like, "Dad, conjure me some more cows."

"Um, these are all the cows they have."

Silence. Staring at cows.

"So...wanna go look at some chickens?"

"No."

"Okay."

"More."

Then we stopped at one of the zoo playgrounds and, after some actual playing, Lyla decided that her cup contained not nearly enough pebbles.


She filled it up, fist by fist, dumped it out, filled it up, dumped it out, and on and on for 20 minutes. She was in the zone. It was very important work, and I could tell she was making profound discoveries about the world. I finally moved her under the slide to get her out of the sun.