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Amelia and I went to the zoo yesterday. The zoo? Yes, Richmond has a zoo. It seems that is a surprise to a lot of people around here. It was small but very nice, especially for a closer encounter with some animals.

Here is our own picture with the giraffe that we fed.

Amelia was brave enough to put her hand in mine and give the tall guy a couple pellets of food.

Here is a picture someone else took.

She also really enjoyed the tortoises, monkeys, and the carousel.

Pretty girl with great post-nap hair.

Amelia is getting sneaky. When we ask her for something we don’t want her to have, she says “I put it back.” She used to put it back. Now she tries wandering somewhere else with it, like we won’t notice.

We get a thousand (probably not an exaggeration) “Wha-sat?”s a day, meaning “What’s that?” to all kinds of things she sees. Those eyes don’t miss a thing. I have been remembering this week about when I said some time last year that I couldn’t wait until she said “mama mama mama” until I was sick of it. That hasn’t happened, but there have been some “shhhh, just for a minute” recently. That girl can talk. And repeat everything.

One of our favorite things: She falls, picks herself up, looks at us and says “I’m o.k.”. It cracks us up every time.