Missing: Sophie the Giraffe

Description: 7 inches tall, tan body with brown spots and brown hooves, shiny black eyes, RA written on the bottom of a foot.

Reagan and I were off to a great start today. While Tim went up to New York for the day, Reagan very kindly slept in until 8:30 this morning and woke up quite happy. Our friends were all busy today and it was beautiful out, so I decided we could run some errands at Union Station, grab some lunch, and take a walk towards the White House to get our White House Christmas ornament for this year.

We had a great start to the day, with a bath and nap for Reagan. She and I started out for Union Station to go to the post office and get a watch battery changed – the post office was fine, but the watch is actually broken.

The day changed from there. Reagan was happily sleeping in her stroller, so we walked towards Gallery Place to find some lunch for me. It was warm out, but there was a bit of wind, so we had a blanket, but it kept falling off and I think that is what contributed to losing poor Sophie. Reagan had Sophie when we were in the jewelry store, but that was the last time I saw her.

I didn’t notice Sophie was missing until we got to Gallery Place – about 10 blocks away. So, off we went, retracing our steps back to Union Station. We did not find her, so I grabbed a very disappointing lunch – as could be expected at Union Station – and I was so distraught about losing Sophie, that I hardly ate and we ended up walking partway back on our route one more time.

Luckily, I was with one oblivious girl who was just happy to be out in the beautiful weather. And, Tim got home earlier than expected, so we were able to walk back to Union Station – again – to meet him at his train tonight.

DC Fun – Part 2

When Gwen, Sharon, and the kids were in town, we had much better weather for Sunday than Saturday. It was a beautiful, crisp, fall day, so we decided it would be great to head out of the city to a farm to do some pumpkin and apple picking. The pumpkin picking was mostly successful, but the apples, not so much.

We did the obligatory wagon ride out to the pumpkin patch and Reagan really enjoyed the apple bucket. And Collin was mostly interested in the hay.

We searched and searched for the best pumpkin out there – only in the field they said we could go to, of course.

 

And eventually settled on the ones we liked.

So, we were off to pick apples. Well, we walked through the apple trees and saw lots of apples on the ground. We only found 1 apple actually hanging on a tree and Collin picked it – and that made his day.

 

What an awesome day!

A Trim

Reagan's long bangs were hanging in her eyes and it was driving me crazy,

so I, very unceremoniously, trimmed them. I admit that they are a little uneven, but they aren't hanging in her eyes anymore.

She seems to be pretty thrilled with it

Getting Stronger

Well, she's not quite moving everywhere she wants to be, but this little babe is pretty happy scooting on her stomach and hanging out on her hands and knees. We now have a gate to block the stairs, so Reagan can have a little more range to move.

Fun in DC – Part 1

A few weeks ago, Gwen and Sharon, friends of mine from growing up in New Jersey came to spend the weekend in DC - to catch up and hang out with the kids. We visited with each other as much as possible, but the kids did get in the way a bit ;) Saturday was kind of raity, but we braved the weather and hit the zoo. We were lucky enough to catch the sloth bear feeding demonstration when we arrived. (Note: The sloth bears might be my favorite animals at the National Zoo right now. They sucked these little buggies so loudly that I was sure there was some mechanical device doing the work, but the presenter assured us that it was just the bear.)

We also spent quite a bit of time in the bird house - it was a dry place to sit and eat lunch. We found a very brave blue-crowned pigeon.

Sharon egged on this little owl. He was quite offended at her attempts to scare him and responded accordingly – though I missed getting a good shot of it.

We spent some time at the end of the day with the prairie dogs and Collin and Paige got to run through the tunnel play area.

Family in Philly

My (Tim's) parents were in Philadelphia so we headed up to see everyone.

Reagan had a great time with Papa Armstrong...

At the diner

Playing with toys at Ikea

Checking out Grandmom Grillo

She got fed by Mom-mom

And then we all rode in a bumper car at the bar

As you can see, Reagan had a great time.

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