Potty Time

We've begun the potty training adventure. So far it is going well...

Silly Boy

Ryker's discovered stickers and found Keelin's butterfly sunglasses.

National Train Day

To commerate the meeting of the East and West lines, National Train Day was celebrated in several cities, including Washington. Ryker and I took the metro to Union Station where we met up with Louisa. There were model trains, toy trains, activities for kids, face painting, etc. Ryker even got a train tattoo. We then got to climb aboard a train. We only went on the sleeper, but there was an Acela, VRE, Mark, Pullman, and Obama's Inagural train among others.

Udvar-Hazy Center at the Air & Space Museum

Ugh. Rainy Sunday. Exhausted and not motivated to do anything. Keith calls: Udvar-Hazy? Sure! I've been meaning to take Ryker but it is all the way out at Dulles. I spend enough time around airports. It's a pretty cool place: a large airplane hanger and attached buildings. There is a space shuttle, the Enola Gay, Wright Brothers, Concorde, Stealth Fighter and SO many others. It's a great place because kids can run around and be noisy. Ryker loved it!

We went to the Observation Deck and watched planes land. He kept pointing to them and saying "KeeKee! DaDa!" He really misses them and was hoping they were coming on one of those planes. It made me sad. Every day he wants to talk to them and brings me the phone or goes to the computer (Skype) asking for them.

At the end, I took him to the McDonald's cafe for french fries: "mas pappas!"

Deep Sea 3D IMAX movie

Chiara and I took the kids to the Natural History museum to see an IMAX movie. Ryker kept saying "agua! agua!" He really liked it but wouldn't wear the funny glasses and didn't manage to make it through the full 40 minutes. It's okay. We still had fun. DC is such a great city to live in. There is so much to do with the kids (and for my previous "Sex and the City" adult life...).

Felipe's 2nd Birthday

My friend from Oyster Elementary, Dinora, has a son Felipe who just turned two. Her mom helped plan the party and it was great! It was in a church community room, moon bounce outside, LOTS of toys to play with, Elmo and Zoe (?) came. Ryker really liked Elmo; he blew him kisses and kept poking him and saying "Melmo, Melmo." He also enjoyed the moon bounce even when the big kids were in there. The cake? Yummy! Yummy! He passed on the chicken, beans and rice (which were delicious) and just ate cake. Maybe that explains his hyperactive behaviour this afternoon?

Harris Teeter

We went grocery shopping yesterday. Ryker likes Harris Teeter because he gets his own cart and a balloon at the end of the trip. He drove his cart like a wild man, crashing into everything, including poor Isabel. He kept wanting to add things to his cart and he had some interesting choices: linguine and tuna (fine), angel food cake, ramen noodles, sour cream (no thanks).

At the greeting cards, he grabbed all of the pink ones and kept saying "Kee! Kee!" He really misses his sister. He brings me the phone every day to call either KeeKee or DaDa. He was trying to tell Marilu (LuLu) something about them today.