Señor Perro and Perrito

With help from B, these two dog puppets have been tucking our kids in at night and waking them up in the morning for the past couple of weeks.  The kids think they are hilarious.  Little Guy cracks up hysterically over them.

Loving his little brother

10 weeks

10/16/12

Air and Space Museum

Princess Sparkley's Girl Scout troop visited a pumpkin patch yesterday afternoon, and rather than pay for the boys and I to get in ($9/person) we took advantage of the free parking at the Air and Space Museum (after 4pm) by Dulles.

We got there just before the Observation Tower closed at 4:30. It's probably our favorite part.

It was neat that we got to see the Space Shuttle that flew over us a few months back.

The museum closed at 5:30pm, we had to pick up PS 11 minutes away at 6pm.  Traffic was HORRIBLE.  It took us 50 minutes to make it to the pumpkin patch.  Luckily all the other parents were stuck in traffic also.  And then we still had to get home... 

Air and Space Museum visit - May 2010

Air and Space Museum visit -  September 2009

National Zoo

Mystery Baby's first trip to the zoo today and this is the only picture I got of him.  He spent most of the time in the Baby Bjorn on me.  And part of that time asleep.  

 

 I think we've taken a picture of the kids with this panda statue on each of our visits.  

Disregard the closed eyes, the sun was bright.

 Highlights: The pandas were out and one was super close for us to see.  The fall colors made the lions, elephants, etc. look especially nice.  We *almost* got to see a female orangutang use the "monkey bar" line that they use to travel between their "Think Tank" and their home.  We went in the butterfly room part of the invertebrate exhibit... I don't think I've been in there before.  We saw an adorable burrowing owl.   And the super cute baby gorilla was still there (he's now four years old) and still so teeny.

Sadly, we missed the new sea lion exhibit, but we were trying to be fast to get back for soccer practice, scouts, activity days and to drive my parents to their hotel for their early flight home tomorrow morning.

We saw an alligator, to which Little Guy had this conversation:
  "Hi.  I have an alligator at home.  He's green.  Next time I'll bring him and you can meet."

Sunday After Church

 

 Little Guy decided the other night he should read Buddy's Jack Russell Dog Detective chapter books.  B insisted they read them together.  He's doing great.

Grandma tickled Mystery Baby's lips with his toes trying to get smiles and giggles.

Red Velvet Cake

When my parents were here for Princess Sparkley's baptism two years ago, my mom celebrated her birthday here and we got a Red Velvet cake from Costco.  That introduced my kids to Red Velvet Cake and they love it.  For PS's birthday this year, she requested it.  Since I was 9 month's pregnant, we bought one with the promise that we'd bake one for she and Grandma when they came for Mystery Baby's blessing.  Today was that day.

All Dressed Up

This was Little Guy's coming home from the hospital outfit.  The weather has finally gotten cold enough that Mystery Baby got to wear it to church today.  So cute.  Except he slept through ALL of church (which is awesome, except) no one got to see how cute he was! 

Soccer

 Little Guy's Orange Tigers: Brady, Little Guy, Mason, Samantha, Mariana, Breanna, Marek, Owen, Danny, and Thomas blocking out another player.

Little Guy scored one goal.  He was about to score another goal when  one of the kids on his team came up and kicked it in for him.

Go Tigers!

 One of the moms teaches cake decorating classes at Michael's.  She was the snack mom.

Buddy, middle.  His team has decided they are the Barcelonas.  His team won!  This was their first win.

We filmed a bunch of stuff on the video camera of PS's and Buddy's games... coming soon.

Little Guy drop kicking and heading the ball during Buddy's game.

9 weeks

10/19

Smiley Baby

10/12 and 10/13

Museum of American History

My dad wanted to see the Museum of American History again, and, thanks to their handicapped parking pass, driving into DC and parking on the Mall wasn't so bad.  So, Mystery Baby went on his first out of state trip and his first trip to DC.

We have a picture of B, baby Princess Sparkley and I here from December 2002.  She's in the same Baby Bjorn, although I think we maybe angled it so the Capitol was our background rather than the Washington Monument.

And, from Princess Sparkley's camera:

Two Months

October 17, 2012

Cuddle Time with Grandma L

Mystery Baby clasps his hands together a lot now and "chews" on them.  The other day, Buddy said, "He looks like an evil genius." 

Shenandoah Colors

10/16

On Tuesday, we drove up to Shenandoah National Park to see the fall colors.  We also saw a bear!!  We drove along Skyline Drive, starting in Front Royal, got to Matthew's Arm Campground and turned around to head back.  At one point, a car was stopped with its hazard lights on going the other direction.  We couldn't figure out why until we went past and saw the black fuzzy blur in the bushes on our side of the road.  A bear!  We U-turned and tried to spot it again (only half of us saw it) but it has made its way too far away from the road. 

Mystery Baby has a love/hate relationship with the car.  If we can manage to get him to sleep, he sleeps wonderfully.  But most of the time, he just screams.  On this longer trip, we finally got him to sleep and he stayed in the car for the photo ops, hence the photo of him sleeping in his car seat.

New car with its new license plate (and Romney bumper sticker).

We stopped for apple donuts at The Apple House on the way home.

Blessing Day

B blessed Mystery Baby today.  In attendance, the P family from Richmond and both sets of grandparents.  Participating in the blessing were B, both grandpas, Uncle G and our friend S. J.