A Day in the Life of Ainsley: Vacation!

Here are several pictures from our little family vacation. We had a great time venturing across Iowa to visit our friends in South Dakota for a night (see separate post for those pics) and then headed down to Omaha. We stayed downtown and enjoyed some good food and shopping in the Old Market and took Ainsley to the Omaha zoo as well. She loved the zoo. Her favorite things were the monkeys and the aquarium. She loves the fish. More than anything I think she loved the "ishies" (fish) in the hotel lobby ponds. Every time we went back to hotel and each morning she asked about the "ishies". It was pretty cute. Mommy and Daddy of course got some shopping in too. All in all, it was a great vacation but we were all happy to get home again. Ainsley was excited to see her "diddy" (kitty) when we got home!

Sweaty pig tails!

Playing in the zero-entry pool with Daddy in Carroll, IA on the way to South Dakota.

Ainsley had a lot of fun in the water and she's all ready to start her parent-tot swim classes next week!

Daddy and Ainsley

Pointing to the "ishies" in the hotel lobby.

Where are all the ishies Ainsley?

Out to dinner--I'm not sure what she was doing when the picture was taken except that I leaned over to her because she kept trying to give us hugs from her high chair!

Checking out the goats at the zoo's petting zoo. Ainsley thought they were puppies at first but then proceeded to make the goat/sheep noise the rest of the time! She was not really excited about petting one though!

Feeding the fish at one of the monkey exhibits---a definite highlight of the zoo trip!

Kisses from Mommy

Feeding the fish with Daddy. Those fish got fed well.

Daddy, Ainsley and the elephant.....another of her favorite animals!

Cuddling with the stuffed animals we got her. She now has to sleep with the purple monkey and will make the monkey noise if you forget to give it to her at bed time. She still working on saying monkey well, but she's got the noise down pat!