Friday, May 28, 2010

Washington DC

We visited Washington, DC on May 22, 2010. What a cool city! We found a reasonably priced, massive suite to stay in in Arlington, VA for the weekend. This was about a 4 hour drive for us. Seeing all the monuments and memorials and general historical stuff made me feel both proud and respectful. Not necessarily proud of what the country is today, but proud of what got us here anyway. :)


Noah did pretty well with the traveling and all the sightseeing, only getting impatient with us when he was really tired. It's funny how adaptable he is in terms of visiting new places and enjoying the changes but how totally unadaptable (is that a word?) he is about sleeping well enough in any place unfamiliar. But I guess he has been that way all along.

Let the walking begin! And strolling. Lots of walking and strolling.





Watch me climb this, Mom.





Run, Forrest, Run! (Sorry, couldn't help myself.)

Glad to cross DC off my list of places to see!


We have some walking taking place now! A few nights ago Jeremy observed him take 3 or 4 steps all on his own and he has repeated this remarkable feat a few times since then. He is standing for longer periods of time too. We also gave up the morning nap last week, which was helpful while touring DC. Well, sort of. He refused to take the nap one morning, so I gave up after all my rearranging of the schedule to try to hold on to it. Lately, the morning nap seemed to be the cause of disturbing all his other sleep, so I thought I'd try dropping it. But since being sick, he has picked it back up again. Hopefully we'll get him all sorted out after he feels better and he'll start getting closer to a "normal" amount of zzz's each day.

I took him to the FNP on Tuesday suespecting that the ear infection had returned and it had. Same old left ear. The FNP also thinks his molars are making their way in too. Wow! He doesn't even have all of his front teeth yet. So the poor guy has had some serious teething, ear infection, fever, coughing, and another great snotty nose to deal with. What a champ. We are on technically our 5th round of antibiotics (3rd kind) after 2 trips to the doctor to this week!
So Happy Memorial Day weekend and Welcome Summer! Thank you to all those who served and died making our lives today possible.

1 comment:

Alli said...

Looks like fun! That's one place I still need to see!