Okay, so it has seriously been raining and cold here for a week! Tuesday to tuesday! And it is supposed to rain again tomorrow. But Thursday is forecasted at 79 and sunny! Two weekends ago it was beautifully warm here and we took the girls to the zoo! Our first time back since the fall. Everybody thought it was miserable at 93, but us Arizonians were soaking it in! While we were there we had this great teaching moment with Abby. It happened while we were observing the gorillas. They have several gorillas, including one mother who just had a baby girl a couple of months ago and a ginormous Papa silverback gorilla. Seriously, this beast is massive! The keeper was throwing these big popsicles out to each gorilla. Knowing the social structure of the animals, she was trying to make sure the Papa didn't interfere with the Mama getting her popsicle. Well that didn't work. Twice the Papa gorilla swiped the popsicle from her. Quite forcibly too! The people watching were mad and booing at him. All the while, Abby was watching. Then she turned to me with this sad look. "Why did the Daddy gorilla take the Mommy gorilla's popsicle?" It turned into this really neat teaching opportunity to share with her how God created animals differently than He created people. That people were created in God's image. Lately, it has also served as a great picture of selfishness! I love how she is getting older and asking more thoughtful questions!
This was inside. One of the orangutans was playing some type of computer game. It was kinda neat!
Mommy and her baby!
Look at her little foot!
Jason captured this great shot of the mommy reaching out to ask for the popsicle.
The Big Man Himself
About to Pounce!
Their eyes are peeled!
1 comment:
There are indeed so many teachable moments and they get really good at asking questions for sure! So, when I read your blog title I thought "hmm, how it is in the wild....like at my house!" :)
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