A Mommy and Javen Date

One of the hardest parts of foster parenting for me has been giving up so much of my one-on-one time with Javen. Starting this week, baby K will be gone for a few hours on Thursdays to visit with his mom, and I am SO excited about having those few hours of Javen all to myself every week. As soon as we dropped K off this morning, we headed to the zoo to spend some quality time together.

We started our morning with a ride on the "choo-choo"



It is so fun now that Javen is old enough to enjoy the animals. His favorite book these days has lots of pictures of animals in it, and it was fun to watch his delight as he put together the animals he has seen in his books with the real live ones.

Two seconds after I took this picture, he leaned forward and gave this goat a big kiss . . . on it's bottom.


Unfortunately, Javen called the llama (in the background) the "mama" - we got a few strange looks as he followed it around the petting zoo for a solid five minutes(it didn't want him to pet it and kept moving away) all the while saying "Mama! Mama!" to it over and over again . . .


For $3, you can feed a giraffe a cracker. I wasn't about to spring $3 for a cracker, so we just waited until some other sucker came to buy one and then took some pictures when the giraffe came to get their treat. You'll notice from the worried look on Javen's face that he probably wouldn't have been that thrilled with giving the giraffe a cracker anyway. He wasn't about it let it out of his sight.



Javen was absolultey delighted with his ride on the back of a camel.




I think I wore him out!