Cassidy's First Trip to the Zoo

Cassidy's first trip to the zoo was to support her awesome cousin for 22Q at the Zoo day. On April 22, 2012, we went to the St. Louis Zoo in St. Louis, MO in honor of 22Q at the Zoo Worldwide Awareness Day. Cassidy's new baby cousin has 22Q Deletion Syndrome or Digeorge Syndrome, but we just think it makes his "super" status even superer!

Cassidy and Mommy at the St. Louis Zoo

Uncle Philip and Cassidy. She thinks he's okay since there's
a baba involved.

Mommy, Daddy, and the Super Boy

He's cute, right?

You can't visit the animals on an empty tummy!

She loves him.

 
Cassidy and Nancy, two Cherokee girls

Nancy gives Cassidy her baba.


I think they like each other.

Cassidy takes a power nap before venturing into the zoo.

Daddy takes this job very seriously.

He thinks he's the baby whisperer.

Nancy,  Philip, and Daryl are excited about a fun day.

Mommy and Cassidy check out the goats at the children's zoo.

Cassidy has never seen a goat before, but she reached

up to pet it all by herself.

Goats are so awesome!

Mommy and Cassidy love the rabbits.

Rabbits are awesome, too!

Cassidy thinks everything is awesome!

She loves life.

Daddy and Cassidy are always happy together.

They love each other.

                                               

"Haha! A hippo is gonna eat me!"

Cassidy Nicole

Mommy and Cassidy are having fun!

 

Now we're sea lions! Hahahahaha.

Strolling through the zoo

Sting Ray Cove

Cassidy rides the carousel.

 

She's pooped!

Cassidy with her super cousin

Did you notice that there are no pictures of Cassidy with the elephants or giraffes or zebras or lions or tigers or any of those other really cool zoo animals? Just goats and rabbits. LOL. We went all the way to the St. Louis Zoo, spent the night in a hotel, sat in a traffic jam for two hours, got rained on, and barely saw any animals! Haha! We're still laughing and smiling about it, because we had such a great time. Even though we were cold and wet the whole time, we would do it all over again just to see our baby girl light up and let our her signature squeal because she got to pet a goat.

She makes every moment worth living.

Fabulous Aunt Bonnie

. . . for the second time now, actually. I'm way too young to be a Great Aunt. So, I've deciding to be Fabulous Aunt Bonnie. You already met our little superhero. Cassidy's cousin (who shall remain nameless on this blog per parent request) is already 2 months old!

Now we have a new little cutie pie and playmate (and someone for Cassidy to boss around one of these days since she's older and more mature, and we all know that girls know way more than boys!):

 Braxton Philip Cotton

April 6, 2012

 

 Cassidy, 6 months

Braxton, 1 day

 

 Snuggling little cousins

 Two miracles

 Cassidy teaches Braxton how to play with the new 

toy his grandma got him. 

 So she likes dump trucks, huh? I guess Mommy and Daddy

need to quit getting her all girly stuff!

 Braxton gets love from Fabulous Aunt Bonnie

 Love from Mommy

 Cassidy plays with Cousin Uncle Brian

 "Uncle Brian, soon Braxton will be so big just like me!"

 Brian's gettin' the hang of this dad thang.

Good daddy

 

"Am I doing this right?"

 "Hey! I think I did a pretty good job!"

  

 "I think you did a really good job, too, Daddy. 

I love you!"

 Cassidy takes a power nap with Daddy during her visit.

 Snack time! She's showing Braxton how to hold his own baba.

Show off!

 Proud grandparents

 Braxton Philip with Grandma Sherry and Granddad Philip

Beautiful Brooke is so happy to be a mommy.

And he's already one week old.

We love you, Braxton!