Author: Doris

I got the chance to go to the Military Bowl at RFK stadium last week with a friend of mine who wanted some company sitting in the cold. I have never gone to a football game besides high school ones I went to over 20 years ago and my college was not known as a football powerhouse, so I missed out on being a fanatic fan of anything. I am actually so lame that I thought the Redskins were still playing at RFK, but apparently they moved to FedEx field over a decade ago.

The Military Bowl featured the match up of the Maryland Terps against the East Carolina Pirates and, honestly, I had never heard about East Carolina University before the game, but apparently they have enough people who have heard about them that a good number of them showed up to color to opposite side of RFK purple.

They had a very impressive pirate head which billowed purple smoke.

And after two weeks of bitter cold winds and temperatures, it was a surprisingly pleasant day and I throughly enjoyed the company and brushed up on my football rules and had nachos for lunch!

Back to work and school tomorrow! No more goofing off, no more gaining weight! No more volcano rolls from the conveyor belt sushi place!

Edda spent the whole first day of the new year in her pajamas. Who’s fault was that? Now she can go straight to bed with no fuss or muss! We should all spend our days in pajamas drinking hot cocoa.

Vince had a sleepover last night – lots of Wii games, popcorn, and fart jokes. I have no idea how long they slept. They were awake when I went to sleep and awake when I woke up. It is 6:30 pm now and he is OUT for the night.

New year’s resolutions:

SPEND LESS TIME ON THE INTERNET.

The days are long, but the years are short. We made it through another year!

Because we are sans babysitter for a few weeks, we are juggling schedules and Jeremy and his mom were able to take Edda to occupational therapy last week and so I can post some photos of Edda having a pretty good session. Right now, Edda is getting only one private session of therapy a week which is with Deb, our favorite OT. We have no regular private PT or private speech. This past year, I decided to keep only therapies that Edda seemed to enjoy. We do have hippotherapy, although I don’t really consider it therapy because I don’t think it really does that much for Edda physically, rather I think of it as something like Hip-Hop Dance for Vince, something fun for Edda to do.

Deb and Edda spent the hour laughing and looking at each other and doing some pretty hard things for Edda to do. It always reminds us that we could do the same thing with Edda at home, but I have to admit, we don’t often work with Edda in the same way!

It’s a little dog-crazy in the house as we are dog sitting our cousin’s two pugs.
Four doggies in the house! It’s a lot more leashes to keep untangled on the walks around the neighborhood.

Here’s Josie:

Izzy:

Maxi (who was just chewing a bar of soap this afternoon):

and of course, Ruby.

Our Christmas Eve walk on the C and O canal…

Maxi found the squeeze-tube frosting on the bottom shelf of the pantry and managed to drag the tubes to the living room where she pierced it with her sharp little teeth and was rewarded with an artificially-dyed sugar high. So then when we went to use it to decorate cookies, the frosting oozed out from the toothy holes in the center of the tube and covered all little children from head-to-toe with frosting.

The table got covered with frosting.

Plates got covered with fingerprints!

Final products!

Eliana, our au pair for the past 18 months, flew home to Columbia this morning. We will miss her a lot, Edda the most! Jeremy and I could not manage our schedules without our wonderful childcare providers. We went out for lunch at the Silver Diner yesterday to thank her for everything she’s done for us. Jeremy and Eliana left for the airport at 4:30 this morning and Edda was awake and perky at that early hour after her nightly seizure – so she got to give an actual good-bye hug to Eliana as she left the house.