My little animal

Lynny has started roaring. Or maybe growling. It's kind of dog meets lion at our house. She'll pop up next to me on the couch, or come crawling into the bathroom while I'm getting ready and she'll start making her animal noise. We think it's hilarious.

And occasionally she'll start doing an animal act along with it. Like the other night when we were putting her to bed. She suddenly started making the growl sound and acting like she was going to pounce. To add to the hilarity of it all, we had just taken her hair out of pigtails and she looks like she has two little horns. We got a video of her, but by the point we had the camera rolling she was too wound up to continue. Her sound turned into more of a scream. But she was so funny. Here's the video.

In other news, being married to a school bus driver has some great perks. Like whenever he drives a field trip to the zoo, we get to tag along. For free. We've been twice now, but the first day was gross and wet. But the other day we enjoyed a nice warm day at the zoo. Lynny didn't seem too interested in many of the animals until we got to the giraffes. She couldn't take her eyes off of them! In every picture we took she was looking away from the camera and at the giraffes.We tried to take a break under some trees, but she wouldnt' have it. She kept pointing back at the giraffes until I took her back over to look at them. I loved it, simply because they're one of my favorite animals too.Fascinated by the giraffes.Under the trees, trying to keep an eye on the giraffes at the same time.

And she has a new favorite means of transportation: Daddy's shoulders. She thought it was so fun to see the world from up there.

And last but not least: Lynny is getting her first molar. And its making her cranky. I don't think we've seen her this unhappy before. Granted, unhappy for Lynny is all relative. She's a very good baby. She rarely fusses, and she only really cries when she doesn't want to go down for a nap. But this tooth has got her fussing much more than usual. I think we're all ready for that tooth to come in and just give her a break. The way things are going, though, she's going to have a full mouth of teeth by the time she's one. Which is next month. I can't believe it's been almost a year since she made her first appearance. Crazy.