Clean Carpets and a Trip to the Zoo

Friday afternoon we had our carpets cleaned.  Our floors got more messy that I can believe in the year we've lived here.  I blame it on the dog.  When we renewed our contract, the office agreed to clean them.  I'm so glad because we have quite the little crawler on our hands now.

We moved as much as we could into the kitchen and bathrooms so more of the carpet could be cleaned.  And while they were there working on the cleaning, we were getting ready to take a trip to the zoo- to burn the time when Jake had to be off the floors.  We strapped Jake in his high chair in the kitchen to watch once he was ready to go.  I LOVE his cheesy grin :)

We put shoes on Jake for the first time in awhile since it's getting colder.  The kid HATES to have anything on his feet.  He'll do anything he can to pull whatever it is off.  And he's good at getting his socks and shoes off.  I'm not sure what we're going to do now that his feet will actually need to be covered.

I cannot believe how OLD he is looking!

Once they were finished scrubbing the carpets, we were off to the Columbus Zoo!  Our water park passes also work for the zoo- we've been putting off going since it has been so darn hot and the water park is only open part of the year.  But now that the water park is closed for the season and it has cooled off, I think we'll be making lots of trips there!

We stayed for about 2 1/2 hours and saw lots of cool and interesting animals, but our favorites were the 3 month old tigers, some entertaining monkeys, the brown bear, and the elephants.

I know Jake noticed at least some of the animals.  He also loved the people-watching.  But the entire experience was during his 2nd naptime of the day, so by the end he was all tuckered out.

We all had a fun day at the zoo!