Elfans

This is Phoebe's name for her favorite animal at her new favorite place...the Columbus Zoo! Any guesses? That's right, elephants! We've gotten to go twice in the past few weeks, once with Mimi and Deeda and yesterday with Nonnie. Some fun memories include Phoebe being afraid of the horses on the carousel, seeing the elephant named Pheobe, watching the kangaroos jump around as the zoo employee walked through them, seeing a Canadian goose charge its reflection in a door, watching a manatee touch its nose to the glass right infront of us, and of course, listening to Phoebe talk about everything she saw in her own special way. We were all amazed at how close the exhibits let you get to the animals. We could literally reach out and touch some of them, though for their best interest and ours, we didn't.

Here's a little list of animals we saw, in Phoebe-ese. See if you can guess what they are:

Mingos

Anga-oos

Pain-gins

Skirls

Ish

Elfans

I-no

I-ons