A little Ring Around the Rosie before bed tonight…
And, that’s our awesome new blue living room wall color. It replaces the red that had been in that room for 6 years and has really brightened up the room. Once all the work is done, we’ll replace the rug.
The last time we were in New Jersey, we took a drive down to the Atlantic City Aquarium. It is past most of the casinos and and back through what seems to be a quiet neighborhood. Granted, it was March and super windy, so it was pretty chilly anywhere near the beach. It was the perfect place to pass some time, though.
It is a small place with a not very large shark/dive tank on the first floor, petting tanks on both floors, and a few other exhibits to see. The petting tanks were a big hit with both Reagan and Tim.
And, Reagan did wear weather appropriate clothes that day, but she got too close to practically in the water, so we took her long sleeve shirt off to try to keep her dry.
We weren’t too successful ;)
But, it was fun and left us dreaming of summer and the beach.
For some reason, one of the most frustrating things in this whole renovation – besides not being finished yet – is our house phone. Yes, we still have one, mostly because I like to have a phone by the bed that’s not going to make noise all night with emails coming in.
A few weeks ago, they put a new phone jack in and, all of a sudden, our phone wasn’t working, but the internet was mostly working. So, we bought a new phone – the old one conveniently stopped working and I wanted 3 handsets, so we can have one in the basement, too -and Verizon came out and looked at our box and fixed something. Everything was working great and then for some reason, the phone stopped working again. We moved it around to different jacks and it just kept saying “no line”.
So, for some reason, as I was heading to bed last night and deciding whether to take my cell phone up with me, I decided to see what was going on with the phone. Turns out, it wasn’t plugged in the phone jack! Phew, check that off the list.
Things have been very busy for us. I even have some pictures, though they are on the cameras, which are upstairs at the moment.
The weekend after we got back from Puerto Rico, we went up to New Jersey for the weekend. We got some good family and friends time in – a trip to the Atlantic City aquarium, dinner to meet Michelle’s fiance’s parents, spending the night with some friends, and lunch with Tim’s uncle and cousins.
We’ve had a quiet couple of weekends in DC since then. We had a chilly breakfast picnic with our neighborhood babysitting coop and then last Saturday was our annual neighborhood cleanup. It was really quite an adventure of a day with rain and wind threatening to cancel the barbeque and, a few hours later, hail ending it. But, we met quite a few new neighbors and had a great day!
And, our nanny’s last day with us was last week, so we started with a new nanny and share family this week. It’s been a little stressful for Reagan, but she’s getting used to the change.
Our spring and early summer weekends are starting to fill up, but hopefully not too much.
This girl is in love with Elmo (and Abby, though she’s not featured as prominently in the Sesame Street show or gear). So, when Tim was out of town a few weeks ago, he picked up both an Elmo and Abby doll. We decided to keep these for the plane rides. One of her favorite things, though, is to ask you to draw Elmo. Admittedly, Tim is better at this than me, as you can see from the beach art.
And now, “Elmo poop”! I have no idea where this came from, but we spent quite a while on the plane ride home making and changing diapers for Elmo.
In San Juan, our room was in a building separate from the main hotel building, but we walked over there a few times a day and had to walk by the fish pond, that was also home to quite a few geese and peacocks. Reagan learned about geese and that they honk, and she was always pointing out their funny “noses”.
But, the highlight was the parrots – 2 blue ones and a white one. They were pretty funny – one morning, the white one was napping, so she would say “shhh” any time we talked about then. They, we caught them eating their breakfast – and there was food flying everywhere – so she would tell us how they made a such a mess.
There were also some games near the main beach/pool area. There was a big chess board, a Reagan-sized jenga set, and a large Connect 4 board. We didn’t play any of the games by the rules, but the equipment did occupy us for a while.
Last weekend, we were able to get away for some fun in the sun in San Juan. The hotel had beautiful grounds, 2 great pools, and a really nice beach. We spent most of the time on the beach, but were able to get to Old San Juan for an afternoon. We also took a drive to El Yunque rain forest one day for a hike and to see the waterfalls.
Sadly, we had a few casualties during the trip. I think this happened at the same time as the aforementioned “Daddy’s milk” incident - one of Reagan’s cups and my Phillies visor must have fallen out of the bottom of the stroller into the cab unnoticed and they are now gone. And, when we were hiking, the camera dropped from Tim’s pocket into a stream. Luckily, the camera seems to have dried out pretty well and is working fine, despite a somewhat damp screen.
