Recent Happenings

1.  Letting fresh air through the windows.  Haven't had to turn the AC on yet.

2.  Winnie survived Value Vet the other week and Charlie was most interested in her carrier.

3.  He was not interested in wearing this hat.

 And he got his way.  ;-)

4.  Punk rocker post bath.

5.  We took Pat on his first Nashville Zoo experience last Friday morning. 

 We went in this contained area that lets you interact with the birds.  Very neat!

 I caught this one biting the back of Pat's head. Ha.

6.  Last Saturday we took Charlie on his first ever Shake n Steak trip (mostly for us of course).

7.  While I was working on the below project Charlie was working on his own project of removing tissues from the box.

 I made a little template to make sure I liked the layout for my new frames.

 And voila!

 Also hung up Pat's charter in the guest room.

 And a measuring chart in CQ's room.

 It starts at two feet. 

8.  This is Charlie after Grandma gave him a bath last night.  Yes, Kate got into town on Thursday.  :)

Happy guy!

Nashville Zoo

E's college friend Sarah flew into town for the weekend and their friend Jessica drove up from Huntsville, AL to visit. Jessica has two little ones, so they decided to go to the zoo Saturday afternoon. Charlie and I joined them (and we even signed up for membership since it's only about 10 minutes from our house - they even gave me an educator discount, nice!).

Kenyon College - E, Sarah, Jessica (and Jessica's husband Mike and their son Joshua.  Their daughter Kate was in a stroller that didn't make the picture)

The sister self portrait: 

The zoo closed at 4pm that day, so we went through everything pretty quickly, but I really couldn't get enough of the flamingos.  They were just so close! 

Maybe too close...watch your fingers CQ! 

Cute little meerkat.  I'm looking forward to our membership and hope to get back to the zoo again soon.

And I don't want to leave out our favorite animal - Winnie (I had to say favorite in case she ever reads this...)  Yesterday morning I looked over to see these two gazing out the window together.