looking at zoo pics

since michael's gone euro i've spent most of my free time scrapbooking. i haven't touched my draft or done any academic writing but i've cut a lot of paper and written my odes to owen and our family. it's another one of those ways that i pray.
these pages i finished last night are of our trip to the san diego zoo with sal and jenn. the first page is kind of the summary of our day--fun group shots and owen on michael's shoulders with his cool new zoo hat and the turtle he liked.

the second page is my favorite though because i realized in flipping through the hundred-plus pics that there were all these pictures of owen with animals in them. not owen looking at animals, but owen looking at other things besides animals. i think you can see owen walking by the chimpanzee right up against hte glass but my favorite one is the alligator looming behind him while he says "fish! sshhh! fish" and is mesmerized by the little goldfish/alligator-food. which seems typical--we try to pull him towards what we see and he sees things we'd probably not even notice. toddler lesson #32.