Kansas -- Abby's 14th State

Will is on a quest to visit all 50 states in the U.S. On Friday, he made it to #43 and Abby made it to her 14th state -- KANSAS -- when we arrived in Wichita for the wedding of friends.

Abby is a GREAT roadtripper. She likes to call our roadtrips "journeys." We were on the road 11.5 hours yesterday (including stops along the way), and Abby was cheerful the entire time. Highlights of the trip included:

1. Abby and Lynette were allowed to touch the bones of a 70 million year old triceratops.
2. Catching up with many DC and Dayton friends who were also attending the wedding.
3. Seeing a baby black rhino at the zoo. (Black rhinos are highly endangered.)
4. Seeing an incredibly beautiful amur leopard -- an extremely endangered cat. (There are only 50 amur leopards left in the wild.)

We learned that Abby is the same size as a King Penguin.

We also learned that Lynette finds bats to be rather disgusting!

Our friends BJ and Erich joined us at the zoo.

Abby spent hours practicing her numbers and letters! At one point she even said to me, "Mommy, don't interrupt me! I'm doing my work!"