How Green Becomes Wood

"I think the zoo has dolphins, so those will probably be her favourite, if the aquarium was any indication," Dark said.

"Selfishly, I'm going to say I hope not," Daizi chuckled, "If you have to like something that swims, habibti, like the sea lions."
 
"Oh well. As long as there are places to sit and something to eat, I can last all day," Alec said cheerfully.

"We need big hats. Water bottles. Maybe our..." Xander lost the word and frowned as he gestured with one hand, trying to indicate a scarf wrapped around his head.
 
"And you'll look lovely," Alec assured her.

After a while of hanging out with their family, the twins went off to Alec room and ended up staying up there. Xander didn't care for the idea of having to go down two flights of stairs with his boot, so he just stayed with Alec in his room instead of making the trek down.

Saturday, while at work, Alec told Tristan all about the planned visit to the zoo with his family. He was looking forward to it. He'd only been once several years ago, and it had been an amazing experience! Until Goober Griffith threw Alec's prized ball into the flamingo enclosure and then told the teacher it'd been Alec. Tristan had to ask if "Goober" was the kid's name. It was not, but Alec couldn't remember his real name.

"You know, doing the accounts for the zoo on a volunteer basis has its perks," Tristan remarked. "Like free entry for myself and one other."

"Do you mean you want to go with us?" Alec asked curiously.

Tristan chuckled and shook his head. "No, I wasn't inviting myself along. Besides, I have to balance the accounts for this place tomorrow. I was thinking you and your family could take them. It would be two tickets cheaper, and since Ivy is so young, she probably gets in free."

"Good point!" Alec grinned. "Thanks, Uncle Tristan!"

So, Alec took the free tickets home with him to give to his parents to use at the zoo the next day.
 
After Alec returned home with the tickets, Dark and Daizi both texted Tristan to thank him.

Sunday morning, Ivy gave them more trouble than usual when they tried to get her ready. First, she rejected the clothes initially presented to her so instead of wearing the very suitable outfit decorated with safari animals, she instead demanded to wear her denim overalls decorated with dinosaurs, her ladybug shoes, and a shirt decorated with pastel ghosts. It was not particularly aesthetic, but it wasn't worth the fight. Being only nineteen months old, her method of picking her own clothing was to point at things and scream if they tried to put her into anything else. Next, she refused to let them brush her hair, but this was settled by letting her brush Dark's. This was done badly, which was expected, and exactly why they let Dark be the sacrifice: both adults were fairly certain if she brushed Daizi's, with how long her hair was, the brush would be gone forever.

Thankfully, she ate her breakfast fine, and Dark and Daizi were both fairly certain they'd only leave a bit later than planned.
 
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