The Baby Elephant!

We finally made it to the zoo to see the baby elephant! He's soooo darn cute! He was about 300ish pounds at birth and like human babies, lost a little weight after birth but now should be putting on 2-3 lbs a day for the next several years (I think the guy said 5 years). Hmmm, and I'm lucky if my kids put on 1-2 lbs a month.

We learned how baby elephants drink milk from their mommy's just like Nick. The orangutans also reinforced that concept later on in the day. Ahh, zoological education. Though nursing mothers is better than some of the other animal education you get that the zoo sometimes.



Ben got to play on one of the playsets at the zoo. He had a super good time playing with the other kids.




And Nick hung out in the shade, trying not to think about how much his teeth hurt.