Baby Elephant and Fish

We're a little late in posting the news from September. Mostly because nothing terribly exciting went on. Lots of school and staying at home playing. We all took turns being sick with a cold but we're all over that now. We have plans to go to a Balloon Glow at the Balloon Fiesta on October 10 and we may venture out in the early morning for one of the Mass Ascensions. We haven't decided yet. We did do a few things in September, my Dad took Logan fishing and we went to the zoo to see the new baby elephant.

Fishing:

We went to Tingley Beach to fish. Logan got his own fishing rod and we waited and waited and waited. Finally we got a bite and Logan and Grandpa reeled it in and the fish flopped around. Logan cried and screamed, and the fish was thrown back and that was the end of the fishing trip, or so we thought. That night Logan started crying again, wondering where the fish was and if he was ok and it took a while but we finally convinced him that the fish was fine and was swimming around with his fishy friends. So we're waiting to go fishing again. Maybe when he's a little older.

Putting bait on.

We got one, reel it in.

A catfish, after the hook was taken out it was tossed back in the water.

The zoo:

We have been waiting almost 2 years for this baby elephant to be born. She was born on September 2 at 1:43 am and weighed 318 pounds. They named her Daizy (Mom's name is Rozie). We also found some crocodiles at the zoo. Apparently they've been there since 2004 but have never been on exhibit. John and Joe are 15 feet long and weigh around 1000 pounds. Right now they're in a temporary viewing place attached to the reptile house, they zoo is constructing a permanent house for them.

Not sure if this one is John or Joe.

Baby and Mom chasing a ball.

Here's a short (30 seconds) video of the Mom and baby. Logan asks me where the Daddy is in the video and the zoo isn't sure who the Daddy is. Mom was artificially inseminated so it's either one of the males here or one in Oklahoma. But I told him "the Daddy was just in a different part of the zoo", not sure which zoo but a zoo.