Slice of Life: First Day of Spring

Lost Tooth

For All You Caps Fans

He's ready!

Baby Llama

A couple weeks ago, Jeff, Sable, Oz and I headed to the KC Zoo on a beautiful day. After watching the crazy polar bear do his EVERY day ALL day lap swimming around the rock in his pool, we headed over to the carousel. After a ride, Sable took off towards the deer and llama area. Jeff and I were watching the llamas for a few minutes, and I was loudly complaining (to Jeff because there was NO one else around) that it really seemed unfair that something like 10 llamas share a very small pen while our crazy polar bear (I really can't say that enough) has an ENORMOUS multi-million dollar enclosure all to himself.

The llamas seemed really agitated, in fact at one point they were actively spitting at us just for standing there. Suddenly Jeff noticed, "That llama is giving birth!" Yep, one of the llamas had a baby llama just hanging out of her. There was absolutely nobody around, no keepers in sight. So Jeff took off to find somebody. The other llamas were so agitated that they kept trying to jump on and then sit on the mama. We were seriously worried the baby would come out and be totally trampled to death. Jeff came running back saying he could only find the carousel operator and she was radioing a keeper. After another tense few minutes a keeper came running and tried with little success to get all the other llamas herded out of one side of the pen so she could close off the gate to the mama. Another keeper came and they were able to do it together. Literally ONE minute after they closed that gate, the baby llama came out and plopped on the ground.




Jeff declared (to me) that we should get to name the baby and that its name should be Kermit, because it had such wobbly frog legs. And I think he's right, we SHOULD get to name it - the poor thing would have been smooshed for sure if he hadn't gotten the keepers to come.

We'll be keeping our eye on you Kermit!

Froggy Capri

Capri was the Spring Frog in her school play "A Year With Frog and Toad". She was very cute and did a wonderful job!

I cannot for the life of me get the video of Capri's part to load. I've tried at least a half a dozen times now and it never works. She did the story of Frog and Toad where Toad makes cookies and they cannot stop eating them. Then Frog has the idea to give all the cookies to the birds and Toad declares he'll now go bake a cake. I grew up with and continue to love Frog and Toad, so seeing Capri as Frog was really a treat.

Oddly enough, Capri seemed to be the only kid who got flowers. Is it just me or isn't it common knowledge that when you perform you get flowers?



Great job Capri!