All About the Animals

Ah, what a wonderful Labor Day weekend we've had to wrap up summer and kick off the fall! 

This weekend was so much fun, and we have pictures to prove it. Isaiah is all about animals -- mostly anything he can equate with marginal similarity to a dog or a cow, the two sounds he knows how to make. 

Dog: urf, urf, urf, urf. This would sound more like a grunt to the untrained ear.

Cow: Uooooooooo. To anyone else, this would sound like a ghost sound.

So we headed off to the National Zoo on Saturday afternoon to see real lions and tigers and bears, oh my! And cows.

See tiger just to the left of Isaiah. He put on quite a show!

6 Weeks, 10 Photos

If I had taken a new full time job and therefore find myself with lots less time to blog, it's also possible that I might have missed six weeks worth of "extremely" newsworthy events. Catch up with a few photos...

A sunny day in Washington, DC

The WWII Memorial with Mammy

Our "Date"

When we moved out here, we knew we were giving up some things we loved. For example, Mexican food that tastes like Mexican food, hanging out with a bunch of crazy college kids on Tuesday nights, and great babysitters.

There were other things we didn’t realize we were giving up, like fresh jalapenos at the ready in every grocery store, drive through everything (like cleaners, Starbucks and pharmacies) and sleep.

We have an 11-month old, so the occasional sleepless night and sacrificed date night is expected. We are aware of that and don’t complain. We never took for granted that we had scores of willing grandmothers, neighbors, coworkers, friends and college kids who really wanted to hang out with our little buddy for a few hours so we could have dinner and a movie when we got well and ready. However, we didn’t anticipate that moving to Virginia would launch poor little Isaiah into a series of viruses that have kept all of us from sleeping for two months. That’s ok….he’s going to be fine. But it’s time for a date.