Feeling pretty good...

We're back from the zoo, let me tell you, nothing like a good public outing to affirm your superior parenting skills.

We saw a kid on a leash, literally a dog leash. I have no issues with parents who put their kids in a child's harness to let them walk free. But this kid had one of those retractable dog leashes attached to his belt. Nice.

Batman got yelled at by a much older child because his naive, two-year-old brain thought that an exotic bird ( maybe a cockatoo or something) was a chicken. Batman, pointing at the bird excitedly, "Chicken". Rude, older kid, "That ain't no chicken!" (He said this over and over again making sure the Professor and I knew how ignorant our poor child was.)

Batman's favorite part of the zoo was the petting zoo area. It was full of nice, docile goats. They even gave the little kids rubber brushes and let them brush the goats. He found one sleeping peacefully in the sun and brushed the heck out of it for a few minutes.