Running Errands

Little Heidi spent the morning running errands with us.  It was great to have her along because she and Paige just giggled with each other and I could focus on the shopping.

Sharing the cart at Target:

The oh-so-loved car cart at Giant (bulky and hard to steer, but total worth it):

Holly's Here!

In a surprise turn of events, Bryan and Holly and kids moved out here!  They live approximately 1.5 miles from us.  We're so happy to have family SO close to us.  Paige and Heidi LOVE playing together, and are way cute when they get together.  They mostly just run around and giggle.  We wish more family lived close!

Bug at Breakfast

Paige LOVES to dress up and be a ladybug.  Often one of the first things she asks for in the morning is to be a ladybug.

Frying Pan Farm

We went to Frying Pan Farm with our playgroup.  Out of the whole farm, Paige's favorite thing was riding the kid's sized tractors.  She had trouble sharing with other kids and cried when it was time to move on to see the animals. 

First we stopped in to see the pigs.  Paige looked for a second, and then reacted like this:

"Pick me up, Mommy!!"

She was a bit freaked out for the rest of the visit, but did like looking at the animals. 

New York, New York

We took a semi-spontaneous trip to New York City, taking advantage of Jake's time off between finishing the bar and starting work.  My company had a project at the Bronx Zoo and so I came up to do some data collection.  Jake and Paige came along.  We stayed with Caren and Carl Oberg (Caren is my boss) in Irvington, NY which is just a train ride out of the city.  We stayed on the FEE compound where Caren and Carl live (Carl is the CEO of FEE) in this amazing Victorian House. The house is the main building for FEE where their offices/dorm rooms are.  It's an old, kind of creepy, and all around really neat building. 

Paige enjoyed the outdoor space.  She got to kick around a basketball.

Learn to throw a frisbee

Play with Caren and Shisha (the cat)

And of course play with Jake.

We drove up to New York on a Tuesday morning.  That afternoon/evening we took the train into the city. 

Waiting for the train. 

We went to Grand Central Station (since that's where the train dropped us off) and then had some New York Pizza.

We ate right outside of the New York Public Library.  This was a "must see" for our trip because of it's starring roll in Ghostbusters.

We walked through Times Square, saw the New Year's ball and then saw Mickey.  Paige was so excited!  We were less excited when the Mickey posed with Paige and then held out his bag so we'd pay him.  But I guess he has to make his living somehow.  

We finished up the evening by visiting the M&M factory (where Jake bought me a bag of blue and turquoise M&Ms), then buying some Cheesecake.  

The next couple of days I spent working at the zoo.  We had parking spaces reserved for us at the zoo, and were pleased to see our names on the spot when we got there. 

Jake and Paige spent the days sight seeing.  One of the days they went into the city and went up the Empire State Building and walked around a little bit.  They spent the next day at the zoo (because if there's one thing Jake and Paige both love, it's a zoo).

We headed home the next day (on a thoroughly congested Jersey Turnpike). It was just a short trip, but we were really glad to be able to go on this trip.

Another Girl!

I guess I never really announced it, but....

It's a girl!  

Due November 18, 2012

Airplane Park

Gravely Point Park is one of my favorite places in the DC Metro area.  It has a big wide open field, with an awesome view of the Potomac and the DC skyline: 

It's funnest feature is that it's built right on the end of the runways of the Reagan Airport so airplanes fly RIGHT OVER your head.  It never ceases to thrill me.