Too Cute- Bibles, Zoos, Easter

First off is my edition of 'Too Cute Tuesday'... see my linking tab to visit Megan and Kenzie.  I forgot about this afternoon until I was loading photos.  They are sort of fuzzy because Jude didn't know I was taking them through the window.  But it allowed me to capture him in action.  He's sitting in his car with his baseball bat in the trunk and he's reading his Bible.  He sat there just reading for at least 5 minutes- and however long he was there before I started watching.  And I love this bottom photo.  For some reason it reminds me of old pictures of Christopher Robin, which I adore the classic stories of Winnie the Pooh.  Just the sweetest pictures to me.

Here is classic Jude.  He makes more cave, fort, bed contraptions that any other child I know of.  Except maybe me when I was little ;)  This is how he slept one night- bunched up in a corner.

We went to the zoo again with my friends and their kiddos.

Jude and I rode on the train- you know he LOVED that.  Even though it literally goes 2 mph and you just ride around the parking lot basically.  Thanks to Rachel for getting the bottom pic of us.

Here is Jude's Easter basket, along with the present in the back from my parents.  Pretty low key.  I bought him a bunny via The Sara Jane Project, which I love love love.  Check it out.  Here's Jude checking it all out.  The bunny is now named 'Clover'.  The wrapped present is a pirate puppet named Bart.

And last is Jude in his Easter gear.  It was a pretty yucky day here.  And of course Jude never cooperated for a cute pic, which seems to be the theme :)  But I have a theory that when I am 60+ these 'imperfect' pictures are going to be my favorite!

Charlea and Jude take the zoo

Over spring break, my friend and I took our littles to the zoo.  Jude and Charlea are both in the 2/3 year range, which is awesome.  We got there fashionably late (or late like moms of little kids do...) which aparently translates into waiting 30+ minutes in line to get in.  Luckily, the kids were fine.  They played around in line.  We chatted.  It was perfect.

We were probably in the zoo 1.5 hours.  Maybe 2.  It was the perfect sized zoo for toddlers.  It had enough animals that they recognized and were into seeing.  It had enough wide spaces for strollers and allowing them plenty of movement.  It had plenty of just low enough for toddlers to get up and see themselves.  Just high enough to be able to see everything.  Great for littles wanting to be independent.  There weren't too many people since its just a little zoo in Gainesville, so you never felt like you were losing them.  Which also gave them the freedom to wander about a little.  And then right about the time they started wearing out, we were at the end.  So it was cheap, we saw everything, and we got our money's worth.  I have always been a big Ft Worth Zoo person- and it is awesome.  But if you have toddlers- it's Frank Buck all the way as far as I'm concerned.  Highly recommend.

The rest is just super cute pics.  I think my personal favorite of the whole afternoon was at the end when Jude and Charlea were losing interested.  We were treated to some toddler crab walking, some toddler giraffe walking (with songs), and then they proceeded to walk down the ramp on their feet and hands like gorillas.  Seriously, I should have videod.  And then they walked the rest of the way singing together.  Most of the songs were made up.  Luckily, Jude and Charlea both have a certain affinity for song writing so they just picked up where the other left off.  So cute :)