In This Moment: Pictures

I like how these turned out. I am trying to be less critical and just enjoy these. I am HATING the ones I took on Saturday. I want to just throw them all away and not deal with them. I might. Life is too short to spend editing pictures you hate (if you're not getting paid for it!)

These were all from the Apple Fest on Sunday, by the way. It wasn't much of an Apple Fest though. It was kinda lame, but the kids had a fantastic time and I guess that is what matters!

It wasn't a bad day or evening, and I managed to get a bit done. I am waging the war on the fleas in the house. We are on the brink of infestation. We have been dealing with little baby fleas that the dogs have been bringing in from outside which promptly jump off them since they have been treated with flea stuff. I spent two hours last night spreading Borax all over the carpets and sweeping it into the cracks in the hardwood floor. I am beyond pissed that we made it through most of the year before succombing to the stupid fleas right before the weather changes and kills them all. And of course, I can't use the stuff I have used in the past to kill fleas because it's a carpet powder with serious chemicals and I don't want to have the babies crawling around on that. So I used a combination of Borax and table salt, and did the downstairs last night and put down the powder upstairs today. I vaccuumed up the downstairs after an hour but am leaving the upstairs at least 24 hours before I try vaccuuing up there, I want to be sure I really give it a chance to work up there where the kids aren't always hanging out. I am also trying to get all the stuff that has been laying on the floors washed and put away so we don't reinfest ourselves. Please please please let this work. I HATE dealing with fleas, that's why I put the stuff on the dogs. They must be all up in the yard though, I will have to spread the Borax out there too. At least it's not expensive.

Is it only Tuesday? Well, Tuesday night. It feels like it should be Friday already. Maybe that is just wishful thinking. I am kinda tired. I didn't get to bed until very late last night because of the Flea Wars and then just as soon as I got to sleep... Savino woke up crying and had to nurse. I am so over him waking up in the middle of the night. I am beginning to think he will never sleep through a night again. He hasn't in quite awhile. I have to cut him a break though, he is really working on these teeth. One of his bottom teeth in the front finally came up through, the edge of it, so he is starting to get there. The molars are still hanging out under the gums but starting to swell. His nose is starting to be much less runny, knock on wood. I hope he finds some relief soon.

I had better make the kids lunches and turn the laundry over. It. Never. Ends.

Well, first of all, since we came back from vacation Tim has been having a lot of pain in his shoulders and arms and numbness radiating down his arms. Today it was bothering him so much that he called his neurologist and at first they said there were no appointments available until September. Then they called him back at lunch and said COME IN IMMEDIATELY. His dr. is very concerned and scheduled him an emergency MRI tomorrow morning at 9am. He said if it gets any worse to go to the ER immediately so they can do an MRI right away, because he is concerned about permanent damage. Tim has a herniated disc in his neck at the top of his spine and it's likely that it's become aggravated. The MRI tomorrow is to check the disc and also to check his brain to rule out Multiple Sclerosis. I'm not freaking out yet, just because there's no point to it. Tim is supposed to call his neurologist tomorrow after the MRI so the dr. can read the MRI and decide what to do next. He gave Tim a prescription for darvoset three times a day to take the edge off the pain. I just hope that this doesn't lead down a path where Tim is taking lots and lots of painkillers all the time and is always out of it. That would suck for him :(.

Ok, onto happier things. Vacation pictures! I have about a million, so if they take forever to load, that's why. I'm going to try and do this in order, but Blogger has issues with my picture uploading for some reason.

We started out our first day at the Zoo!

Savino is not too pleased to be in the stroller, but he doesn't fuss too much.

Everyone is ready to go!

This is what you get when you tell Tim to smile. Uh thanks hun.

Haley is excited and ready to go!

Haley and the giant golden frog (well, part of it). The Zoo's theme was Year Of The Frog.

Savino says "Eh. Whatever.

The Extinction Bell in the Asian animals part. We didn't get to see the entire zoo because we had too much to do in one day, so we started with the Asian exhibit.

I think these were supposed to represent extinct animals. I don't really know. I just thought they looked cool!

Monkey!

Haley taking a picture. I love this picture.

Very. Large. Bats. They are the largest species of bat and they were HUGE. The picture doesn't do them justice!

And an extremely large snake as well. It was enormous. I have no idea what you feed a snake that big and I'm not sure I want to know!

Mom pointed these out to me, I would have missed them otherwise! Paper cranes lined the top of the covered bridge.

They were actually really cool.

Goats!! I was not surprised at the spots these goats got themselves into. Having owned a goat, we learned quickly that they can scale ANYTHING.

The babies were so cute! They made me miss our Billy. :(

Tim and Savino were ready to move on I think.

Haley goofing on the hammerhead statue.

And getting in the obligatory drumming picture!

In the "Shores" section (which is part of the Aquarium), this ray was extremely friendly and just chilled out pressed up against the glass, occasionally eating some lettuce.

Tim checking out the manatees in the back of the tank.

Giant tortoises. They were really really big! I think Tim could have ridden on the back of one!

Savino was just about done with the zoo. It was too hot! Poor kid, he was such a good sport about it all too.

He was about to be done with it all though. Fits were coming!

Haley clutching "Star", her new Build A Bear on the way to the hotel.

The next day, after some serious bickering and getting lost in downtown Columbus, we made it to COSI!

Poseidon means we are in the "Oceans" exhibit! (The water you can see shooting is from water cannons that are activated by your hand passing through a laser beam)

Haley is loving it!

Savino is giving Daddy the Look for messing with his hair.

A submersible the kids could climb down into. Haley chickened out at the last minute and I didn't blame her! It was so cramped inside that I was getting claustrophobic looking at it.

The floor of the "Oceans" was so pretty, there were sparkley specks all through it. I am a big dork and had to have a picture of it.

Tim is playing with this rocket that zoomed overhead in the "Spaces" exhibit. Savino was entranced.

Mom was watching as Haley climbed into a spaceship simulator.

After a minute, Haley proclaimed the simulator "Boring".

I was playing with the bottle rocket launcher.

It shot a 2 liter soda bottle twenty feet into the air with a huge explosion!

You're getting verrrry sleeepy... I don't remember what the scientific name for one of these things was, but it was cool to look at.

In the "Gadgets" area, Tim is playing with a laser table, and Haley is mugging for the camera!

Watching people hoist themselves into the air in the pulley chairs.

Savino and I take a break in the nursing room. They had a really excellent infant/toddler area that was totally safe for the kids to roam around and play, and a really nice private nursing area that we took advantage of. Savino loved playing with all the toys and I appreciated the leather glider rockers!

The "Progress" exhibit took you through two different time periods, the first being an Old West sort of street.

The street lamps flickered just like old school gas lanterns.

I thought this street sign was pretty cool. One side of the street was Hope Street and the other was Fear Street, I think it was a commentary on how people view change.