It was a BEAU-tiful Fall day at the zoo.
We have been visiting Acara the baby orangutan since she was born in 2005. Its funny how attached to her I feel, I remember when the keepers use to wear big red hairy coats for her to hang on to until they could train her mother how to be a mother. That makes me really ponder instincts. For me, having children and then feeding them, was pretty instinctual. My body just seemed to know what to do, and my babies have responded (so far) but I wonder if I didn't have the role models for mothering that I have, if my body would get confused too. Raising my children isn't so instinctual, and I wouldn't mind having a staff of highly trained people to help me out.
This photo was a wonderful fluke. I don't know how it happened.
And now the kids are doing this....
because Dad is working late and I am out of entertaining steam. Sure Bub, paint your head, whatever makes you happy.
