Memorial Day Weekend

It is Monday night and Ryker is sound asleep after a busy weekend. We went to the Zoo 3 times - once for Dakini's birthday party and twice for a run. On one of the trips we stopped and threw rocks into Rock Creek for a long time. He liked to pick up the big ones and make a splash. Finally he is throwing in front instead of behind. We visited with Steve & Joanne and he jumped on the furniture, went on their swing and played the piano, very gently I might add. Let's see, we also went to brunch at Mark & Djinni's home. Great rose sangria. Ryker liked the fritata. It was Rolling Thunder in honor of Memorial Day and Ryker was excited to see all of the "acyl" (motorocycle). Today we went to Cameron Run Water Park and he went crazy: "agua, agua, agua, agua"

Myrtle Beach Boardwalk

We went to the Ripley Aquarium yesterday. It wasn't nearly as good as the Baltimore Aquarium but Ryker still enjoyed the fish a lot. He likes to mimic what the fish say: "ma ma ma." He also went on a few rides: tea cup, motorcycle and car. It was a bit hard to tear him away...

One Expensive Bicycle

We're down in Sunset Beach, NC (near the SC border) with our friend Lisa and her parents at their beach house: One Expensive Bicycle. Karen bought a bicycle despite her husband's belief that it would be a waste money, she'd never ride it, it would rust, etc. Well, she did ride it and discovered a house that she fell in love with on the beach. So, the bicycle purchase became a house purchase.

Mother's Day

Ryker let me sleep in until 8 am this morning which was heaven since it was almost 2 am by the time I got to bed last night. He was exhausted from Lucy's birthday party too and took a 3 hour nap today! I finally had to wake him up (and it wasn't easy) so we could go to Wheaton Regional Park. They have a train AND a carousel! It was a beautiful day but a very long wait for the train ride. We had a great time.

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.