Daddy and the girls getting in a little snuggle time after the zoo. The kids were really excited about going to the zoo but after my second presentation today I was exhausted and feeling terrible so we all went to lunch and then Bob headed to the zoo with the kids. Annie and I took a little nap and started packing up. Annie is deinfitely waving goodbye and we think she may have learned her first word - HI! with the exclamation point and in a very high pitched voice. If we tell Ann to say HI to someone she waves enthusiastically and says her little hi very softly but with emphasis. What a cutie pie!
So we all know that Annie looks like Bob and has his laid back personality but we have now learned another interesting quirk that makes her all Daddy's girl. I decided to give Ann a little ice cream at Johnny Rocket's tonight - the kids were very excited and we all sat poised for Annie's response expecting it to be excitement, enthusiasm or something along those lines. What we got was a high pitched squeal and a lurch of the little ones body toward the french fries that she had been chewing on earlier. She had NO reaction to ice cream - that's right - nothing - zippo! If I hadn't carried that amazing little creature for 10 months I would never believe that she belonged in our family - she chose french fries over ice cream!~ The crosses I have to bear in life are endless!
And here is the little cherub sucking on a french fry and happy as a pig in you-know-what! Is there even one tiny cell in that body that is mine - Oh yeah - the eczema that she inherited from me - lovely!
These are just a few pictures that I took of the Capital - Molly thought this building was pretty incredible and kept telling me to take more pictures.
A flag over Union Station! Just another thing I love about DC - so much patriotism and flags everywhere!
These are obviously not in order but I thought it was cute how we found Peter sleeping this morning - good thing Molly had her princess couch to sleep on so she didn't have to share. Both kids got their teachers a present at the zoo - they were really missing them by today and are excited to get back to school on Tuesday!
Molly, Peter and Ann on a walk around Dupont Circle - my training ended at 1 p.m. today so we had some time to spend together until they all left for the zoo and Annie and I crashed.
Peter on the Dupont Circle sign. We had no pool in the hotel but it was centrally located and in a great section of Dc. The only issue was that no one is all that fond of kids in this section of town. Every place we went had NO kids menus or highchairs and were very unfriendly when we walked in for a meal. Even the bookstore was a little snotty about the kids! At the grant meeting this morning everyone voted to come back to this hotel rather then the one in Baltimore when we all come back in October - I was clearly the only one who brought kids! If they do hold it in this area we will probably switch to a different hotel with a pool and a bit more for the kids to do - poor Bob won't stand a chance otherwise. The cherry blossoms are 4 days away from full bloom so we are going to just miss them but we did catch the UCONN game this afternoon. Bob and I were commenting that if we were home and they had lost like that they would have interrupted the evening news to tell us but here the other games were bigger news!
The kids are sleeping soundly and can't wait to get home and see everyone - Grammy and Papa were missed greatly by everyone but most especially by their daughter - I hope that someday we can convince them to come on one of these trips with us! KK is home from Boston (Yippeee- to quote her godson) and agreed to meet us at our house when we get home tomorrow night - yeah for brave cousins willing to help play Easter Bunny. I can't wait until Sunday to get my hands on Katie - they change so much when they're newborns and I'm a little afraid that she has forgotten me! Laugh at me if you will but she loves me already!
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