Kids Say the Darndest Things!

Over the years, Gracelyn has grown from my sweet little innocent baby into a little girl who definitely has a mind of her own. Sometimes the way her mind works simply amazes me. We were on our way downtown to visit the ZooBoo Halloween Exhibit at the Indianapolis Zoo the other day, sitting stopped at a light, when out of nowhere she says:

"Mom, do you see that wall with all of the colors?"

Well I looked around and all I could see was a large monochromatic brick building. I said "What colors?"

Sure enough, She pointed at the brick building and says "Those colors on that wall".

Then she says, "I've been collecting those in my mind"!

Once I figured out that she had been counting all of the brick buildings that we had passed in her mind, I couldn't help but laugh. After that, she kept counting all of the brick buildings we passed on the way to the zoo. (According to her, there are 67 - Just in case you were wondering.) I am so proud of how far she has come with her numbers. At the end of Kindergarten, she was still struggling to count to 20. Now, just one quarter into first grade, she can count almost all the way to 100.

Here is a picture of Gracelyn when she was 4 years old.

Also, here are some pictures that we took at the zoo:

This is the first year that we have gone to ZooBoo! The zoo was decorated for Halloween and there were alot of fun Fall/Halloween activities to enjoy. Almost all of the kids there were dressed in their Halloween costumes, which made the sport of people watching my favorite part of this trip. We also went trick-or-treating through the Plains Exhibit, watched the penguin feeding, petted the sharks in the shark tank, jumped in a haunted bounce house, went pumpkin bowling, saw the Spooky Dolphin Show, rode the 4-D Dinosaur Ride twice, and took a ride on the Abracazebra Express Train. The train ride was pretty neat. It stopped three different times and at each stop they put on a little Halloween skit with full costumes. We probably spend more time at the zoo on this trip then we ever have on one trip to the zoo before. We were there from 2:30-7pm but it was definitely worth it!!