The Fire Station

When we selected Dominick's preschool we didn't think he'd get to go on field trips (one school we looked at had one every couple of months) so we were very surprised when we were asked to sign a permission slip for him to get to go to the fire station. They needed 9 parent volunteers because they were walking (it's a few blocks away) and if they didn't get that many they would have to cancel. I didn't tell Dominick because up until the last minute they were still unsure. Thankfully they were able to go and he had the best time.The field trip was on October 14th. Ryan unfortunately was out of town for a training, but I was really thankful my work is super awesome and I was able to go, 

Dom didn't know what to think of the firefighter all dressed up in his get up with his mask and everything on. In fact it made him incredibly nervous, but he did great and had the best time. I didn't bring my big camera which I was disappointed about, but I did get a couple pictures of him. I should also say that he was super distracted and was not really interested in taking any pictures. 

this was his "cheese" face. LOLOLOLOL

Columbus Zoo

Back in June when Ryan was TDY Dom and I went to the Cincinnati Zoo and we loved it. We often hear the debates between which zoo is better the Cincy zoo or the Columbus zoo so we decided to go one of the last weekends in September. I loved the Cincy zoo as there was a lot of animals and a lot of babies, but I have to say that we loved the Columbus zoo even more. I'm pretty sure we are going to go ahead and get yearly passes because there's just a ton of things to do and see and even though it's an hour away I have no doubt we will get our money's worth. I didn't take too many pictures as I just enjoyed the day with my guy, but here is what I do have.

I promise he liked it

he waited all day to ride the train and kept asking for the map to see how far away we were. 

the elephant came up super close and there were a couple farther back. he announced to everyone that there was lots of elephant poop out there. people started laughing and he got super embarrassed

we went to Tom+Chee afterwards and he was SO tired. He wouldn't put his hands down because he was just SO exhausted. he wasn't trying to not get a picture, he just didn't want to do life in this moment. HA!