Chapter Six: A Trip to The Zoo
Hey guys, I apologize for the long delay but I was having some writer's block. :/ Anyways, hopefully it was worth the wait! :D
Lily gently sat baby Harry down on top of the changing table and slowly started sliding off his pajama pants. Harry was already used to this routine by now, so he started fussing while she did this and Lily softly started hushing her infant son.
"I know, I know, you aren't happy." She began. "But as soon as I put a fresh nappy on you I'm going to get you dressed and then we're going to take a car ride to the zoo that mummy used to go to when she was little." She told him while tearing apart the diaper latches since she now had his pants off and Harry began to cry harder.
"Shh,.." she whispered while removing his diaper and then stepped on the pedal of the trashcan to dispose of it. That's when Harry decided to tell her what he thought of the whole entire thing and started to urinate without a diaper on. Lily just simply sighed and slightly shook her head while she retrieved a baby wipe and started cleaning Harry's bottom and then smiled rather warmly and lovingly down at him.
Regardless of how stressed out and frustrated she was as the mother of a soon to be eight-month-old baby boy, she still loved him more than anything else in the world. Harry stopped crying as soon as his mother finished placing a fresh diaper on him and started sucking and drooling over his knuckle. Lily already knew that this was because for the past month he had started teething.
After Lily dressed Harry inside his clothes for the day, she hoisted him up inside her arms and placed him by her hip, before kissing the top of his head and carrying him down the hallway. "Hey son, are you ready to go to the zoo?" His father questioned him eagerly and excitedly making the baby boy giggle and a rather wide grin started stretching a crossed his face.
"I do believe that's a yes." Lily told him as she and James exchanged loving smiles before giving each other a quick peck on the lips and then Lily started strapping Harry inside his car seat. "Hey James, can you make sure the baby bag is all packed? I really don't want to drive all the way up there and then find out at the last second that we forgot something." She told him.
"Right." James replied with a nod and once he made sure that they had packed everything he turned back over to look at his wife. "So, what kind of animals do they have at a muggle zoo anyways?" He asked her.
"Lions and tigers and bears_" she began as he widened his eyes.
"Oh my." He began. "That's a lot." He finished.
"Well there's also monkeys, giraffes, and zebras,.. oh and of course elephants. We better stay away from the reptile house though, because yesterday I let Harry crawl around in the grass for a bit and he found a snake and it really scared him. It took ages for me to calm him down and to get him to stop crying." She explained before she started carrying Harry's car seat out to the car.
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Excitement grew onto Harry's face while his mother started pushing him around inside of his stroller. Every once in awhile he would take his fingers out of his mouth and either let out an excited shriek, sound, or start to babble as he was lifted inside his mother's arms and she pointed out all of the different kinds of animals to him.
Except for the fact he started to cry after a tiger roared inside the distance, Harry loved all of the animals, but his favorite were the monkeys. Harry laughed as one of the chimpanzees started making faces at him and he started making faces right back at him.
"Forget monkey see monkey do,.. it's more like Harry see Harry do." James said as Lily smiled at her son and then kissed him on the cheek before he started crying again and Lily started wrinkling her nose and waving her free hand in front of her face.
"Speaking of monkeys, I do believe that this one has to be changed." She said before placing the diaper bag around her free shoulder and carrying Harry into the restroom to change his diaper. Once she had finished her and James decided to take baby Harry with them to the café for lunch.
"I'll go ahead and feed Harry his bottle and then maybe we can get him some chicken nuggets and ice cream to eat as those are some of his favorite foods and this is a special occasion." James suggested while cradling his son inside his arms and softly kissing his forehead started feeding him his bottle.
"Okay, I just hope that he'll still be able to fall asleep considering he has to take a nap when we get back home." Lily said before the waitress came over to the table and she started ordering their meals. Once Harry's food arrived, Lily sat him down inside his highchair and placed a bib around his neck and waited for Harry's chicken nuggets to cool before she gave them to him to feed himself.
After a little while Lily fed him some vanilla ice cream with a tiny bit of chocolate sauce on top. Afterwards, it was time to get back into the car and go home. At that moment there were two things that Lily was extremely grateful for a couple of things. One, that she had already started to wean Harry, (so that when he finally started getting teeth, he wouldn't bite her) and that while he slept, her and James could get some much need rest themselves.