Old Town Outing

What started as Mommy dragging AJ and Daddy to Alexandria to shop turned into a really fun day for all. Really - ask them!!

We left home with the top down on the convertible and enjoying the perfect morning weather. Of course we took the scenic, non-toll road route to take advantage. AJ was so relaxed he nodded off on the ride. After some uick shopping we drove up the GW Parkway and landed in Old Town Alexandria. We should have know what a great plan it was when we scored a parking spot right by the big fountain on King st - near enough to stop and throw some pennies in of course.

As we finished up at the fountain we heard some strange noises - loud bangs. Turns out there was a British soldier rennactment group a block up and they were firing thier muskets. AJ got the grand tour of their "campsite", a quick musket firing lesson with Daddy, a look inside the soldiers pack-pack and he even scarfed down the gingerbread the nice women had!

After a stop for some lunch, we walked down to the waterfront and checked out the boats. I think AJ enjoyed standing right in front of the kid playing guitar more than watching the boats!

Nats Win! Nats Win!

So the Washington Nationals have been on a heck of a losing streak -pretty much all season. I decided to grab the tickets from work and take AJ to his first baseball game, even if they probably weren't going to win. Thursday night we left work early, grabbed AJ from daycare, then picked up Jampa Larry and headed into DC for the 4:35 pm game against the Cincinatti Reds.

It was the first night all week it didn't rain - AMEN - and the Nationals actually won - Double AMEN!! I will admit AJ had a major case of the wiggles and didn't sit still well.

Good thing our seats were only about 10 rows up from the home dugout on the first base line so when he took off running down the aisle he couldn't go far. The regulars in the first two rows quickly embraced AJ and his fidgity enthusiasm. He and I squatted in a couple of empty seats in the very first row. It wasn't long before all of our new seatmates decided AJ needed a game ball. They would take turns pointing to AJ and yelling down to the players and the bat boy trying to get them to throw a ball up. Didn't take two innings and they finaly complied, tossed a ball up over the dugout and right to us. AJ was so excited and our entire section clapped and cheered.

He proudly clutched his game ball and ran up to our regular seats to show his Daddy and Jampa, who were also clapping for him. He wanted to throw the ball and we explained that wasn't a good idea becuase it might get lost (or stolen!) so we had to wait until we got home to play catch. He turned around, looked at me and said "I want to go home now and play ball" and started to march up the aisle towards the exit.

Bedtime Stalling

AJ has started trying to stall when it is time to be tucked in each night. Now tonight we didn't hear a peep, but the last few nights he needed water, more snuggles from Mommy, a book, more water, he was cold, he needed his bear (that he had until he threw it into the hallway!) - you get the drift :-)

I will say I don't mind him requesting a snuggle from Mom and I'm enjoying our new reading material. We have graduated from the simple books of a toddler to some fun titles like "The Real Story of the 3 Little Pigs" and " The Horrible, Terrible Really Bad Day with Alexander". Fun books that I like reading to AJ.