the columbus zoo

we went to the columbus zoo today :) shelby was into everything so i thought she would like to go play with the monkeys.

it was a beautiful day! one of the colobus monkeys had a baby last month and we got to see it. it was so cute!

shelby's fun to take to the zoo now because she watches the animals. if they are active she points to them and talks about them and reacts to them. it's pretty neat. nathan does all of that, too, but somehow it lost it's cuteness over the last 15 years.

he is such a good big brother, though. he pushes her around all over the zoo in her stroller when she's not walking, and holds her hand when she is, if she'll let him. i try to have her walk as much as possible so she'll be too worn out to get into things once we get home!

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today nathan went to taekwondo and hapkido after the zoo. shelby and i met terry at cord camera to work on our scrapbooks. i have been trying to finish this one page for the last three times i scrapped! i don't know what the problem is, but i just can't get it done. today i was distracted by a lot of chaos going on in our neighborhood.

apparently there was a shooting close by and the suspect ran and was caught just down the street last night. there were tons of cops and a helicopter overhead. today stephon and the neighbor discovered that the van parked out front for three days was stolen and we had the cops here for quite awhile today. they caught two of the three kids that stephon and chuck saw, hopefully things will calm down... or there may be another shooting!