Kangaroo Zoo is Family Fun

Michelle wanted to take our family to the Kangaroo Zoo.  It is one of those places with the super sized inflatable toys.  We've taken our boys to places where these big slides are part of the party but never to an entire arena full of inflatable fun.  Our boys went crazy, non-stop running.  Even for our boys that was pretty impressive. 

The boys were getting all the sliding their little hearts could handle but it was great to see when the older brothers would help the younger brothers to enjoy the larger slides.  David was especially good to watch out and help his younger brother Quinten to have fun on the various slides.

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We had a lot of fun but were only able to capture a little bit of it on film.  But it is enough of a taste of the action to remember just how much fun we had.  We would love to go back and have another day of fun at the Kangaroo Zoo.

(Posted 1/23/12)

Playing at the Zoo Playground

While it has long been debated where these kids come from and how they manage to have so much energy, well part of that question has finally been answered! Still not sure about the energy thing. Michael enjoys playing on the playground toys, but pauses to take it all in.

Michael and Anna discovered that they could do things together quite well.

Cousin Anna made it up the ladder and pauses to reflect on her accomplishments.

David is ever the monkey swing and climbing on everything.

The slides seemed to be the biggest attraction in the park.

Donovan decided that walking all the way around to the ladder was just too far to go.

Why spend time in line when there is a quicker way?

David doesn't believe in the common route and decides to scale the untamed country on the other side of the slide.

But who couldn't use just a little help from his cousin, Katie.

Don't think for a moment that fun escaped the mommies! Aunt Janeil plays on the teeter-totter.

Michelle goes for a slower approach to enjoy the day.


In the end, the kids had a fabulous time at the Zoo playground!

How to spell fun...G.R.A.N.D.M.A.!

We are trying to help Donovan get potty trained. Grandma was able to get David potty trained in about 24 hours (at least that is the way I remember it). But Donovan doesn't seem to be quite as motivated as David. So we hit upon this great plan...David had gone to visit Granda Petersen all by himself and Donovan felt left out. So we promised him that if he could get potty trained he could go stay at Grandma's house too. Well it was a big success (finally)! So David and Donovan went spend the night at Grandma's house.

From all accounts they had a wonderful time (obviously I wasn't there...which was the point of the reward, to stay at Grandma's house alone). They got to stay up "late" and watch a movie, ate popcorn and had other treats (I think Grandma was trying to spoil them and then laugh as she sent them home again). They did some walking and exploring in the morning. The plan was to meet at the zoo and we'd take them home from there. So the zoo is where we came into the picture...

We went to the Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake.

Michael spotted the turkeys.

David hung out with the elephants.

And how close can 3 boys get to the penguins?

Donovan spent a lot of time trying to find the giraffes (this stop is the zebras)

David thought it was great to drink from the lion's mouth.

And then there was the spouting elephant.

Seeing the cheeta up close was pretty cool.

Some of the displays weren't made with kids in mind, but don't worry...my boys will find a way to see the turtles swim.

This was very captivating...where else can a little boy move such a huge ball?

Grandma treated everyone to a ride on the Carosel. While it was a hit and all my boys loved it (and through little tantrums when the ride was over) Aleky seemed to enjoy the ride the most...by far!

After the zoo we were all tuckered out and hungry, well at least Michelle and I were tuckered out, but we were all definitely hungry. So we stopped at Wendy's for a quick bite to eat.

Our boys had so much fun. We discovered that the average attention span of a child at any exhibit at the zoo is 3.7 seconds! If you want to take a picture then you must have all the children at any exhibit at the same moment so that you maximize your photo opportunity! In spite of the quite pace of the walk through the zoo everyone enjoyed the afternoon. And our boys definitely loved the ice cream treat at the end!