Petting Zoo!

So we have long known that Elijah loves to play with animals. When we had our dog Zoe, he would chase her around and lay on her and pat her and just generally annoy her. Lately, since Zoe has gone to a new home (thanks Deb!), he has taken a shine to our cat Teagan, as manifested in the following:

Today started as a nice sunny day so we decided to go to the petting zoo at Gardner Village!

I thought he would think it was neat and explore a little then either be scared or get tired of it and start playing in the dirt, but no! He wasnt scared of any of them and walked up to every animal he could and pet each one with the same loving 'puh puh' said to each one (he calls all animals Puh puh's because thats what he learned to call the dog when he would pet her; puppy).

Toward the end of this video, he stops at a paticularly large goat, at which point he decides against petting it. Notice how in all the videos, you can here him calling everything 'puhpuh'.

He never ever got tired of being there either! He would pet one animal for a minute then spot another and proceed to pet that animal for a minute until another caught his eye, etc, etc. Eventually we had to just make him leave because a storm started moving in and the temp must have dropped like fifteen degrees in ten minutes. But anyway, my favorite were the little lambies. so little!

This is across from the petting zoo. There is a cool water wheel outside this little restaurant.

This happened at lunch. Elijah thinks it is hilarious to close his eyes when he is trying to do something. Apparantly it just makes things more interesting. The waitress came when he was doing this and started laughing.