Now that we
live twelve minutes away from Central Park, I have been looking forward to
taking Kensi to go see the penguin exhibit. One of her all-time favorite
bedtime stories is “And Tango Makes Three”, which we highlighted back
on March
1, 2008 PKG (Pre- Kensington Grace). The book is based on the true
story of Roy and Silo, two male Chinstrap Penguins in New York's Central Park
Zoo. The book follows the six years of their life when they formed a couple and
were given an egg to raise. This egg was obtained from a male-female penguin
couple, named Betty and Porkey, who had two eggs and could not care for both at
once. Roy and Silo took turns sitting on the egg, and eventually it hatched.
The female chick was named "Tango" by the zookeepers. Kensi favorite
part of the book is when the little chick breaks out of her shell. When we read
it, she makes the chip chip (egg cracking) chirp (baby) sounds J
The weekend we moved here, was the weekend of Hurricane
Sandy. Then we traveled to Texas to visit Fazha and the family, then to Disney
for Thanksgiving (and Kensington’s Birthday) and then it became too cold. With
spring finally here, and me working with the Association of Zoos and Aquariums
(AZA) and their member zoos to create a national “Zoos Go Blue” campaign for
Autism Speaks, this weekend was the perfect opportunity to bring Kensi along
while I went to ‘work’ this weekend. Between this, last week’s Walk Now for
Autism Speaks event at Dorney Park that she accompanied me to and ‘Bring You
Child To Work Day” earlier this week, she thinks everyday is a party for papa
at work. 
Sporting her new penguin earrings and decked out in blue
(well, we started in blue, until a strawberry milk incident), we headed to go
see Tango!
Kensi, being her ever observant self, had to point out
all of the puzzle pieces she saw… including the stickers everyone was wearing.
Yes, everyone. It’s cute in the beginning. After 10 minutes I was looking for a
blue muzzle.
Tango, unfortunately, went to go visit her cousins in the Bronx Zoo, but we got to see all of her penguin friends, help feed the ducks some baby shrimp, go into the rainforest and see the birds and reptiles as well as play in the waterfall, watch the 4D version of Ice Age, visit the children’s/petting zoo and gorge ourselves in popcorn and dipp’n dots ice cream. Thankfully, she didn't put two-and-two together to realize this zoo is nothing like it's namesame in Madagascar. No zebras wearing rainbow afro's.
Tango, unfortunately, went to go visit her cousins in the Bronx Zoo, but we got to see all of her penguin friends, help feed the ducks some baby shrimp, go into the rainforest and see the birds and reptiles as well as play in the waterfall, watch the 4D version of Ice Age, visit the children’s/petting zoo and gorge ourselves in popcorn and dipp’n dots ice cream. Thankfully, she didn't put two-and-two together to realize this zoo is nothing like it's namesame in Madagascar. No zebras wearing rainbow afro's.
After watching the sea lions, we headed through the park over to sheep meadow, through the daffodils, over to the band shell, to the bow bridge, around the lake, back down to Chess and Checkers, through Heckscher Park – where we stopped to watch a baseball game between the Revolutions and Hells Kitchen (Kensi was rooting for them so we decided to sit in the bleachers and cheer on the Revolutions. Unfortunately, they weren’t to good and Kensi kept calling out “you missed” and “that didn’t go far”, so we got up and headed over to the Hells Kitchen side. My girl only roots for winners!
Unlike the other penguin movie that Kensi loves so much (and is currently playing in the background as I type this), papa doesn't have Happy Feet.
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| "Papa, Kensi turtle is hiding from you..." |
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| "Turtle going to come out and give you a kiss..." |
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| "all this work makes my turtle neck hurt" |
