Tonight, M decided to forego books so that she could help me pack. She also decided, while I was grilling dinner outside, that she wanted to sweep the back patio. She loves to be in motion, getting things accomplished. (Wonder…
We are leaving for Seattle/Lake Chelan in three days. As soon as I came home from work, M said she wanted to help me pack. I was not ready to start packing tonight, so she was disappointed. Then I was…
Thank you to Christina and Mikey for meeting us at the Bethesda pool for swimming lessons today! The girls had a lot of fun with them. A was a little unsure about swimming without her floatie (as the pool requires),…
Long day today… girls woke up early… we hung out at home for a few hours… then to the playground for scooter/bike riding… then to the drugstore for water because it was too hot… then to the bookstore (a few…
Last night the girls went to their first baseball game! M loved it, while A spent most of the night saying, "This is not fun." At the new Nationals Park, they: watched a little baseball, split an orange soda, ate…
A has severe separation anxiety. If she can’t see me for one moment, or doesn’t know where I am, she freaks out. Tonight, I did some grilling in the backyard. I told M & A over and over again that…
M & A LOVE to do jigsaw puzzles. Lately, they have been spreading 4 or 5 puzzles across the living room floor and doing them over and over and over again. I try to introduce new puzzles from the basement…
We had a lovely dinner last night with Grampy, Nana and Emily. The food was wonderful and Emily made a very delicious cake in the pattern of an American flag. M had an enormous piece and ate every bite. A…
Our weekend has been rather rainy. We’ve managed to have fun though. Yesterday we had brunch with Daddy’s friend Jonas – the one who is very very tall and whose stature has achieved mythic proportions in our house. We met…
We had a slightly rainy Fourth of July here in DC today. Unfortunately our desktop computer is messed up and I can’t upload any photos from today. I will when the computer’s up and running again. We started out the…
