Hello everybody! This is Lydia. I'm super excited to be doing the blog this week. I asked my parents if I could have an iPhone to send out some tweets and they said no but I could do the blog post instead. So here I am. Please note: I will have to use up all of my twitter hashtag lines here.

Here is a photo of the sky and a tree. #spring

If you look closely you will see that the tree is budding. I believe this means that I will be spending more time outdoors swinging and playing. #awesome

Speaking of swinging, here I am with some of my friends. #besties

And here is my reaction every time I see an airplane. #bringyourkidtoworkdayplease

Here are a few more photos of me hanging out. #punintended

And this is something my parents thought could really go either way. #experiment

Thankfully it ended well.

Here I am eating my favorite meal. #smoothie

And now we come to the main event. Yesterday my parents took me to the zoo. #exciting

I am a huge animal fan. I love monkeys and elephants and monkeys and cows and monkeys and giraffes and monkeys and pigs and monkeys. I was very excited to go to the zoo. We drove and drove and after forever we arrived. My parents said it took about 20 minutes. #splitthedifference

For a little background to the zoo story, I will add that it has been very nice and warm and sunny all week here. When we arrived at the zoo it had magically changed to very cold and windy and cloudy. #noworriesihaveextrapadding

My parents did some type of mathematics with the man in the zoo parking booth and determined it was best to buy a season pass to the zoo. #bestnewsoftheweek

After buying the season pass to the zoo, my parents did some type of mathematics with each other and determined it was too cold to actually enter the zoo and go see anything like a monkey or elephant or monkey or cow or monkey or giraffe or monkey or pig or monkey. #worstnewsoftheweek

So my parents took me to the botanical garden instead. #theymeantwell

You have to pay to get into the zoo. The botanical garden is free. #justsaying

So here are some photos of me. Looking at plants.