November 7, 2007

Well hi, I am alive and back from my wonderful vacation and completely forgot to blog yesterday. My trip was fabulous, lots of girl time and even a day away in the city.

Crissy has a new baby in her family. Dewey is a fancy green parrot that only bites occassionally:



THE capital (and not the white house, as I like to call it):



Washington monument at sunset (why yes, we were in the city after dark):



The haunted subway:



I also did Crissy's family portrait session, you can see them here.

Anyway, about yesterday... Ariel pooped, a lot. By the 4th or 5th diaper change she was getting a bad case of baboon butt. She ate a big breakfast of oatmeal. In the morning, Ellen and Mae came over. Ariel got put in her first official DeeDee time out when she unapologetically wacked Mae on the head.

Before picking up Adam from school, we swung by Michaels for some picture frames for a client. And then we picked up Adam in the car, which was a shame as it was a beautiful day. Ariel took a decent nap, and after we picked up Alex from school we went to the park with Gabriel and played until 4:00. Some 8 year old girl asked if she could play with my baby and I said yes, so I could sit and talk to Tatiana while someone else got roped into pushing Ariel on the swing.

And at 4:30, Becky watched all the kids so Jeremy and I could go to Adam's conferences. The meeting was very lovely. We heard about a very nice sounding child who is, "Shy, respectful and quiet" among other things. His teachers didn't have a negative word to say about Adam. Sometimes I wish our school kids lived with us at home occasionally too. We got home at 5:15 at which Becky said, "How do you do this all day long?" "Ha ha, lots of BEER!"