Night Eyes at the zoo!

It might seem strange to you that our pictures from Night Eyes are during day light hours - but Liza is sleeping during their night hours and we thought it might be a little too scary for her! It was an definitely an experience. The commercials for the event mentioned Halloween costumes so we grabbed one of Liza's Halloween dresses on the way out the door. Night Eyes wasn't our only activity in Des Moines so a full blown costume was out. Well thank goodness Liza doesn't know any better because people were decked out in costume; including some parents. We just slipped her dress on over her clothes and called it good. Next year we might have to step it up a little so Liza doesn't feel out of place!


Liza and Bair walked through the maze of hay together and fortunately she didn't show any interest in the free-for-all corn pit at the end!


Since Daddy took her through the maze I was tasked with being ready to get her out of the inflatable kid structure! Didn't prove to be much of a problem because she really wasn't that interested in jumping around! I couldn't talk her into climbing into the rescue boat. Where she is standing in this picture is the extent of how far into the play area she went. The entrance is about three feet to her right (you can see part of the entrance wall in back of photo)!

There was a display of pumpkins arranged for picture taking. Liza was more fascinated with seeing if she could sit on the pumpkins than staying put on the hay bales.