After breakfast we hopped on the subway to the Bronx Zoo. Olivia loves animals and going to the zoo seems to be a birthday tradition since we took her to the Central Park Zoo on her first birthday.
Before we left I asked Olivia what animal she wanted to make sure she saw while at the zoo. She said the zebras. However, when we went to see the zebras she said she wanted to leave because they scared her. I asked her why she was scared since she hadn't shown any fear to any of the other animals, including the roaring lion. She said the zebras where going to eat her,which may have had to do with the fact that the zebras where eating grass at the time and she must have thought she was next. The picture above is Olivia trying to scare the zebras so they wouldn't eat her.
The Bronx Zoo was really amazing and we all had a great time. While we were leaving I asked Olivia which was her favorite animal. She said the hippopotamus, the only problem was that we didn't see any hippopotamus at the zoo. There were some large red river hogs that she may have mistaken as a hippopotamus. Judging by her reactions I would say the animals she enjoyed seeing the most were the lions and the tiny monkeys that were swinging all over the trees-she thought the monkeys were so funny.
For lunch we went to the buffet at the grocery store next door to our apartment. Olivia is always excited at the opportunity to eat at the grocery store. We explained to Olivia that since this was her special day she could look at all the food from the buffet and choose whatever she wanted for lunch. This is what she chose-tilapia, mashed potatoes, carrots and strawberries. She ate everything except the carrots, there was a lot of pepper on them and she said they were too spicy.
Olivia had banana cupcakes and rainbow chip frosting-her choice.
The frosting all over face isn't really from her eating the cupcake as it is from the fact that she wanted to make frosting mustaches.
We got Olivia a tricycle for her birthday. Her legs aren't quite long enough to make a full rotation on the tricycle, but she still enjoys being pushed around and she loves ringing the bell.
