Month: April 2009

She’s awake and headed home.

The actual cavity filling is done now. She’s still sleeping from the anesthesia everything is fine, she squirms when you touch her nose.

Hi folks – Edda’s under at Children’s right now having her cavities filled. They left at 5:30 this morning, hopefully they will be back by 2 pm.

Snow tires off.

Ice cream:

Went to the National Zoo today. I’m enjoying this stay-cation. Usually the weekends are too packed with errands and various scheduled kid activities, I often feel that we don’t have much time to just hang and be a family. It’s been nice these past few days to see the local attractions with no huge rush to go anywhere. Edda was doing a low moaning and whining lot during a good deal of the trip, not entirely thrilled at looking at the animals. After a little while of this moaning, we usually pull out the DVD player and let her watch a little Dora or Blue’s Clues to kind of center her and calm her down.

But the past few days during our outings, Vince has discovered that if he sits on Edda’s wheelchair and plays peek-a-boo or pretends to be a chicken, not only does he get a free ride to where ever we are going, he also gets Edda out of her funk and gets her to laugh her head off. Of course, it’s intensely loud and obnoxious (especially the chicken noises) but what can I say? It’s better than the low moan from Edda telling me that I’m torturing her by taking her to see the elephants…

After the chicken routine, Edda was in a great mood.

And so was Vincent:

And here’s an animal picture – cheetah eating frozen rabbit:

Jeremy just got his first paper published in global warming and transportation stuff. He is especially proud of the equations (what a geek). He is now officially a concerned scientist who is now concerned about global warming instead of low-k dielectrics or polymer physics.

Originally we had this idea that we would go to the Shenendoah National Park and stay at the Skyline Lodge which is the only place that you can stay at an still actually be in the park. We figured that we could make reservations on Monday (yesterday) – because we thought all hotels were being underbooked this year and we didn’t have to make plans so early, but perhaps we should have make plans a little earlier than 24 hours because they were completely booked. So this stay-cation is a real actual stay-cation, because we are not spending the night anywhere but in our house.

Today we went to the newly renovated American History Museum.

Metro ride:

At the mall:

The first Honda Civic:

I bought Edda a Barbie today. Barbie’s hair is amazing.

Jeremy is actually at work today – something about an all-day meeting and a road map thing-y, I’m at home with the kids. I’m a little bit rusty at the stay-at-home mom thing, I don’t often have to do it for longer than 4 hours at a stretch now that both the kids are in school.

This morning, I got up and thought I’d take the kids to the pool and then to some sort of museum type-thing, but then I realized that I’m a little lazy today – the rainy weather not helping my laziness. Also, Edda has not gone #2 in 2 days and I am a little hesitant to do the whole change into the swim diaper thing because, well, because I’m a little worried about pooping in the pool.

So, I convinced the kids that a mid-morning bath was just as good as the pool and we did have a fun hour or so in and out of the tub. (Yes, I almost always still get into the bath with the kids).

On Saturday, Vince learned to ride a bike. Note rain boots.