Tons of Elephants

As many of you know, my daughter loves elephants.  She knows all of the names of the elephants at the St. Louis Zoo, including the new babies and their complete ancestry line.

When she was two years old, we discovered she loved elephants after she received a Webkinz elephant from my niece.

Since that time, she decided it was her personal endeavor to save all the elephants in the world.

After her bedroom became filled with stuffed elephants, we altered her plan and decided to simply take pictures of all the elephants we encounter.

Little did I know, we would encounter so many.  On her last birthday, we went to the zoo gift shop and saw and took pictures of 88 elephants all in one setting.  I did, however, walk away with a new stuffed elephant and a bag with a picture of an elephant on it.

Here's some of the elephants we've encountered lately: