What's large, grey and wrinkled...?

An ELEPHANT, of course!!

Gabe is really into animals lately and he looks for them in books and tries to identify them whenever he sees them. He says "El" for elephant (cuz he is still mostly in the one syllable stage when it comes to his talking). Elephants are a current favorite, but he knows zebra ("bra"), lion ("roar"), monkey ("monk"), giraffe ("raff"), and a few others.

He has a fridge toy with farm animal magnets on it that sings and makes animal sounds. He loves it. He says dog, duck, sheep, cow, pig, oink, cat, meow, and bird.

I have to admit, it can be a bit confusing for him. The other morning, we were sitting at the kitchen table together, having breakfast, and he looked out the back window and noticed a bright red cardinal pecking around on the patio on what was a particularly, grey and rainy morning. He pointed and said, quite proudly, "Duck!" He also calls penguins ducks! We've gotta work on that, but he's trying!

His bedroom is decorated with a safari theme, so there are animals in there as well. We recently went to the zoo and he had a great time. He saw many of the animals he's only previously seen in photos. My favorite was the flamingos, but he didn't care too much about those. Daddy refused to let him go to the petting zoo, so we'll have to go back when we can get DIRTY and pet goats!!!


Eyeing the Elephants