Columbus, Ohio

We spent the weekend in Columbus, Ohio.  Saturday was the Ohio state fair.  I’m not a huge fan of going to state fairs, well, with Andy that is.  His favorite activities are eating greasy, overpriced foods and finding somewhere to sit.  Those would easily be my two least favorite activities.  I packed a lunch since I can’t bear the thought of forking over big bucks on a hamburger with 2 Krispy Kreme donuts as the bun or deep fried Kool-Aid (yes, these items were for sale at the Ohio state fair).  Jude and Levi enjoyed milking a cow for the first time, petting a baby kangaroo and a lizard, racing down the giant slide, watching the electric trains zoom around their exhibits and painting a mural (although really painted themselves as much as the mural).  On Saturday night, Jude and I went swimming in the hotel’s pool.  He’s still really timid in the water.  He loves jumping in, but doesn’t swim independently.  It was nice to have no port access so that he could get wet. 

Today we spent the day at the Columbus Zoo.  Jack Hannah is associated with that zoo so we were expecting some great things.  It was a perfectly fine zoo.  My favorite thing was seeing my first manatee ever.  My 2nd favorite thing was seeing my second manatee ever.  I also loved watching Jude and Levi in the big playland.  I told Jude to watch over Levi really carefully and to treat Levi like his shadow.  Jude was helping drag Levi up the platform steps of the playland, even when they went up to Levi’s armpits.  It was pretty cute watching them play together so nicely. 

The 3rd week of treatment starts tomorrow.  Jude’s treatment time is moving up.  His latest scheduled time this week is 10:15 and the earliest is 9:15.  It will be great to get treatment out of the way sooner in day