Time to meet the dinosaurs!

Here's the boys at the entrance to the dinosaur exhibit at the zoo.

Interestingly enough, Cash told someone earlier that day that he was going to the zoo to see the dinosaurs. The guy just laughed and told him that there were no dinosaurs at the zoo because they were extinct. Let me tell you, based on Cash's reaction to these animated, very life-like roaring dinosaurs, they could have just as well been considered alive!

It was great because you could get up-close and personal with these dinosaurs. As you can see here, B didn't mind, but Cash was pressed back into the stroller hating every minute. This one was moving it's head from side to side, blinking its eyes and growling.

This was the most impressionable sight to Cash from the entire day. It's the first thing he told Heath about when we got home. "We saw a dinosaur eating another dinosaur." Very realistic, or is it?

Can you see the boys' hands here? Cash held onto B's thumb the entire trip through.

Even though he loves "three-horns," he did not like this one. B was cheesing for the picture while Cash was scared to death. Hilarious!

In all honesty though, I'm not a huge fan of animated dinosaurs either. I had a horrible experience on a ride at Epcot in Disney World when I was young and it's stuck with me. I thought I was pretty brave throughout the entire D is for dinosaur week. Maybe I'm cured! :)

Kennick is pointing to some cute (can they be?), baby dinosaurs hatching from eggs. It was the only part of the exhibit where Cash got out of the stroller to get a closer look.

Here's the mommy dinosaur. She was close-by making some scary (defensive) noises.

B wasn't scared of anything, especially these babies. At one point I thought he was going to crawl in there with them.

Yes, happy here, but not completely loving the dinosaurs. I do think he inherited my fear of animated dinosaurs. Poor kid.

Last, but not least, was the Tyrannosaurus Rex. There was a rope bridge that we had to walk across. Under the bridge was a long neck in the creek. This T-Rex was swaying back and forth, eyeing anyone walking across the bridge and making some ferocious sounds. Cash did not like it at all. But to get across the bridge, you had to go towards the scary dinosaur. 

Kennick felt the same way. He wanted to go the other way, but Karalee pushed the stroller up the hill with him trying to climb to get past the T-Rex as fast as he could. All we could do was laugh. As moms, we get to laugh at our kids every once in awhile. This was one of those times.

Yes, indeed. He was a pretty scary dinosaur.

After we left the exhibit, we found this dinosaur that we could climb on. Cash was still unsure of him, so he stayed in the stroller for awhile.

Finally, he decided to climb on it, too, starting with the safe end - the tail.

Cheese! We survived the dinosaurs!

Now he was getting more comfortable with the idea and climbed to the top. Since then, Cash has fallen in love with all dinosaurs. He can name just about any that he sees and wants to read book after book about dinosaurs.

As you can tell, he wants to learn as much as he can about them!