Fun in Chicago

The last two weekends have found us spending the morning at the zoo. Ian just loves it and what's better than that. The first weekend we went courtesy of my friend Pat who has a membership. Yesterday we bought our own membership. Can't beat it for summer entertainment and it pays for itself in two trips! Ian sleeps like a rock and talks about it all week long. We let him get a plastic elephant yesterday and he hasn't let go of it yet. He took it to sleep with him last night and when I checked on him this morning he was still clutching it. I figure if I let him pick out an animal at each visit he can have his own zoo to play with at home too. They don't cost much and if we buy it on the way out, it distracts him from the fact that we are indeed leaving the zoo.

The top picture is of our latest art. Aaron and I love the work of an artist around town in GR. His name is Reb and you may have seen some of his murals decorating construction barriers around and about. When we were visiting a couple of weekends ago we took the opportunity to visit his gallery with Mary. We had this big long white wall in our living room that gave the whole room a cavernous feel. It definitely needed big color. The courage cow looks great there and the room finally feels like a living room and not a warehouse. Yes, our apartment is big!

It took awhile for me to feel 'at home' here but now that I have most of the art on the walls and curtains up, etc. Things are feeling good. Still need to finish that nursery but we have clothes, diapers and last night we bought a car seat and the changing table and crib are set up. So if we have the baby today we would be ok. I'm just enjoying fluffing the nest and feel this need to have everything in the apartment done before baby arrives. Which is a little unrealistic - so instead of worrying about it - we go to the zoo! Gets all of us out of the house.