There are lots of things that are great about Denmark, but two of the best are springtime and paternity leave. And when the two things happen at once, it's just awesome. We were all so thankful that Jared had two weeks of paid paternity leave when Maxwell was born. Before Max was born Jared and I had visions of lots of family outings and oodles of chores getting done around the house...with time to apply for jobs in the evenings. Well, needless to say, things didn't quite go as we had planned. First, it seemed that it took a good ten days before I was feeling up to any household chores, let alone significant outings. Then, there were quite a few doctors visits as well as trips to get Max registered, etc. so our days were busy. Couple that with the fact that we couldn't seem to get out of the house before 10am and Ruby's nap is at 2pm... there wasn't a whole lot of time to dilly dally!
We were able, however, to take a trip to the Copenhagen Zoo. Ruby and I go about once a month, but Jared hadn't been since last year, so it was fun for all of us to enjoy the spring flowers, beautiful weather, and of course the animals! I know it probably seems like we left Max at home or something since there are NO pictures of him, but he actually was with us--just sleeping peacefully in his stroller the entire time! Ruby really enjoyed not being tied to the stroller this trip though and was able to run ahead with Daddy, while Mommy and Max took a more "leisurely" tour around the park! 
It's always fun to visit the zoo because it seems that they are always doing some improvement or we find a little pocket that we hadn't seen before. This little water mill was one of those pockets--I thought it was so cute and picturesque! I'm not sure how we managed to miss it before! There aren't as many babies this spring as last, but it is still fun to see how the animals born last year have grown. One of our favorites is the baby elephant born last spring. He is still so much smaller than the adult elephants and is really in his "toddler" phase. I got a big kick out of watching him try to eat carrots during our visit. He got it into his head that he wanted to carry around and eat TWO carrots at once--one just wouldn't do--sound like any toddlers you know? Of course the problem was that he couldn't really manage two with his trunk! He kept losing one or both every time he tried to get them up to his mouth. Rather than caving in and eating one at a time, he was painfully persistant in picking them BOTH up again and trying until he managed the "impossible"!
Apart from the animals, Jared's favorite part of the zoo is the ice cream, so we had to end our day with a few ice cream cones! Even Ruby, who was too excited to eat much lunch, managed to eat her fair share of Mommy and Daddy's cones. I scream, you scream, we all scream for ICE CREAM!!
After several hours, we had only managed to see about half of the zoo, but with two sleepy kiddos on our hands, we decided that the rest would have to keep for another day. I did get quite a few more great shots, so I'll end with a few more photos. Hope you all are having a wonderful spring day in your corner of the world...
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