Over-crowding at the Zoo...

These first pictures are mostly for Aunt Tami. Caden has a very special bond with his Aunt Tami, maybe because she's the one who's providing him with cousins, or maybe because she's his toy supplier. Either way every time she'd leave this summer he'd start bawling, hysterically bawling. He doesn't even bawl when I leave...

So I don't know if, because of Tami's absence, he has replaced her with her toys or what, but he loves them lately. And it cracks me up. He has me set up the zoo gate and then fills it full of the ALL the animals. When he plays with the zoo train he insists that the lion and the alligator can share a box car. Clearly, animal relationships are beyond him. And these are just some more pictures of my baby turning into a little boy. It's crazy to me how they just fall into their gender roles. He's started making car noises, throwing things HARD, and climbing everything. Though, the other day he did find one of my old pink purses and put it around his arm...don't tell his dad.