Christmas

I could really say a lot about our trip to Washington DC. We had a great time on our first official family vacation. I will post all my pictures to facebook if you would like to see them, if you don't have facebook, let me know and I will send you a link to see them.  So anyway, here is the short version of what we did. We arrived in Fairfax, Virgina at 1 pm on the 23rd. Kept it simple that day by just taking a nap and going to the local mall for some Santa sight seeing and dinner at the Cheesecake Factory. On the 24th we went to the Library of Congress, the Museum of Natural History and drove by the Pentagon. On Christmas we walked to the Washington monument, WW2 memorial, White House, Lincoln memorial and the Koren memorial, then it was nap time with a nice Christmas lunch at the hotel restaurant, then off to Mt Vernon to see George Washington's estate. We made it back to PA around 10 pm that night. We have tons of great pictures to go with tons of great memories. It was a totally nontraditional Christmas, but a wonderfully memorable one at that!

Alexander spreads joy

We all know how wonderful Josh and I think Alexander is! It is our God given right as his parents to think he is the best kid on the planet. Well tonight he continued to prove this fact to me. We were riding the bus home from the library during "rush hour". Everyone was looking tired and grumpy. After about 2 bus stops someone finally gives up their seat for me and Alexander (this usually happens as soon as I get on the bus). I sit with Alexander and Josh steps towards the back of the bus to make room for new riders. At first Alexander is watching the new people but once we get underway he starts looking for Josh. It didn't take long before he saw him behind a couple people, thus began the find and wave to daddy game. He loved it, he was swaying back and forth looking around people from all angles trying to find him, then once they made eye contact, he would start waving and giggling. This happened 2 or 3 times before the lady sitting next to me made my day with her comment. She looked at Alexander and said, "Your sons smile brings joy to my heart!" I almost bust out in tears. What a comment that was, his smile always brings joy to my heart, but the fact that he can do that to a perfect stranger just proves that God made him extra special.

Science Center

Last night we had a family date night and took Alexander to the Carnige Science Center. We had so much fun. There were tons of things for him to play with. Even though he is a little to young to really understand what he was doing, he liked the noises and lights that the different activities did. My favorite things were the trains and the chance to be a weather girl! If you want to see the video I can show you, but it was fun being infront of a blue screen reading the teleprompter. It is harder than it looks! So anyway, I am very thankful that we are able to get into these places because of Josh, it really is a blessing to have fun things to do when you are on such a tight budget.

Being silly with Dad

How is he doing that?

Alexander always goes for the musical toys

Entrance to the Science Center

Losing my mind!

I don't know if it's because we leave in 26 days, if it's because Alexander is getting 3 or 4 teeth right now and waking us up every night, or if I am just losing it because that's what happens when you have kids (at least that's what my friends tell me happens), but this morning when I was getting Alexander out of his pj's to put him on the toilet he had no diaper on. What! How could I NOT put a diaper on him before bed, did he take it off in the night...I remember putting him on the toilet before bed, but didn't I put a diaper on before I laid him down? Upon further investigation I found it had somehow slipped down around his left ankle. How in the world did that happen? But more importantly, I must be losing it because I could not remember even putting his diaper on him. Is this a look at what is to become of me?!?!

This is how we watch tv. Every time I get up he runs over and sits down in my seat. I think he feels like a big boy when he sits in our chairs.