Safari Park and Ally

My little, Ally, loves animals.  All animals, she is fascinated by them.  My advocate a year ago, took her/me to a place called Safari Park.  It is a drive through animal park and zoo...animals come up to the car window to feed, and there are others in cages...

Ally, as a child, me as a child, never had birthday parties or got gifts.  Her first birthday party (my first party) did not happen until I was in the fourth grade when I was living with my bio dad (whom at the time I thought was my uncle)...anyhoo, as a very young girl, I never had a party for me...My advocate knew this.  Once when talking to Ally, he asked her her age, she said 6, but she wanted to be 9 because 9 means the "bad man" will be gone....so my advocate threw her a party with 9 candles.   She was officially 9 yrs old and safe.  

He picked August 14 to be her birthdate.  This past 14th, he surprised her with another party, wrapped gifts a cake, everything.

 

Ally loves horses, she knows horses eat carrots, so her birthday cake is always a carrot cake with horses...Later, he took her to Safari park.  Her favorite place.  While there, me and Ally flitted in and out, we both took on the day, my advocate has her on video, and pictures.  One thing he said she said "she wants a monkey, deer, she wants all the animals and because where Sparrow lives is so small, she wants the animals to stay with the advocate because his place is bigger"...hahaha, when he told me she said that...cracked me up.

She wants this baby monkey!   also, a funny thing, a bison or buffalo came up to the car, stuck his big ole head in for food...as Ally was feeding him, he sneezed...got snot and saliva all over Ally face and side of car door....the advocate said she laughed so hard, so gross, but Ally loved it....

This was just before he sneezed all over her....She also informed the advocate that she wanted to live at the park.  He had to live there too because he is her daddy...she calls him daddy.  Some of the things he tells me, Sparrow, what she says and does is so funny...god she really is such a kid...finally able to be a kid without fear.   

My advocate is giving me back my childhood, a healthy fear-free childhood, he is giving it to Ally.  Ally is safe now...I am safe...we all are safe now....

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