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I like this imagining of how human our forefathers were, from one of my favorite musicals, 1776

Happy Independence Day!

Thank you to those who have fought and died to give me my freedom.

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Happy Birthday to faithful reader Maya!

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Isn’t technology amazing? I just finished video chatting with my adorable three year old nephew. It’s hard to believe that just a few years ago, phone calls were the only option, and if I wanted to see him, I’d have to settle for pictures, or else hire long distance movers to move me to Tennessee to be near him. Now, we can video chat regularly, which makes it feel like a much more personal conversation.

He received a play-doh set for his birthday yesterday and wanted to open it up and play with it with me. So I watched him make play-doh worms and listened to him tell me how he had to use the play-doh knife to cut the worm. It was great! (Even better because I didn’t have to play with the play-doh, as that’s not a toy I enjoyed playing with when RTY would want to use it.)

I’m so pleased we were able to video chat. What a big boy!

And, oh my goodness, but his mommy is pregnant! Good gravy, she’s not do for three more months! (Just what every pregnant lady wants to hear: you’re so big! Love you Geta!)

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It’s been nine years since our last vacation. (Vacation shall mean any stay of more than one night in a hotel in a city more than a reasonable three hour drive from home, and shall not include any visits to family or friends, especially when said visits were funded by family or friends.) In 2000, we rented a cabin for a week in the mountains of North Carolina. We vacationed with two close friends. Prior to that, in fall 1999, we took an extended weekend trip to New Olreans.

Since then… family visits, overnight stays at friends’ houses, and two camping trips. None of those qualify as vacation.

This morning, I booked three airline tickets and four nights at a hotel in Washington DC! WOO HOO!

I am so stinking excited! Other than an airport layover, I’ve never been to DC. Sherlock drove around it on a road trip to Baltimore in 2004 or so. RTY has never been to DC. For that matter, RTY has never been allowed to go anywhere with us. This is indeed a monumental trip!

I have been planning it for weeks. First, I thought it would fall through when our a/c broke a couple weeks ago. But since we got away with repairing the a/c for only $125, we were able to continue hoping to vacation in DC. I’ve been reading travel books at the bookstore on Saturday nights. I have a couple pages of notes in a notebook on things I’d like to do, helpful websites, kid-friendly activities, all in the hope that we’d get to take this trip.

And now… I parted with my money this morning. Like, money, not a credit card, as we have no credit cards. So we’re not even going into (further) debt with this trip! I have roughly a month to continue squirreling away cash for meals and the taxi from the airport to the hotel (and back, should we deem that a necessity). The hotel is pretty close to the metro station, but with RTY with us, and the time of night we’re getting in, we feel more comfortable hailing a cab to the hotel from the airport than taking her and our luggage on the metro, and then walking the few blocks from the station to the hotel. Once we get our bearings up there, we can decide if we’ll also need a cab back to the airport for our departure.

I have a high school classmate friend on Facebook who works in the National Archives. She suggested we have her give us a tour, if she’s in town. I’d love that. Her itinerary, though, is up in the air since her dad just died unexpectedly climbing Mt. Everest, and her mom, understandably, needs mucho moral support.

Also, our Friday friends are now contemplating a trip to DC on the same dates. They shot us down when we suggested it the other day, but now that we’re booked, they’re considering it.

No matter what, we’re going and I’m super excited!

If you’ve been and want to recommend sites to see or food to eat, please do so. Because we’re taking the kid, I am going to be pretty anal and work out an itinerary. If we were going kid-less, we could be our normal spontaneous selves, but kids do better with structure. At least our kid does. I bought the coolest map two weeks ago, and have been opening it up at night to dream. Now that I’ve parted with the money, I can really plan it!

WOO HOO!

Our hotel is just two or three blocks from the White House, the Lincoln Memorial, and, obviously, the Mall.

Did I mention that we ended up booking the trip for $120 less than we thought it was going to cost us? Yay!

I’M GOING ON VACATION!!!

If you’re in the area and want to try to stalk me, let me know. I’m open to possibilities. Here’s hoping Maya can work our her own travel itinerary to enable a quick meet up while I’m so close to her home.

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The nice lady who gave me Peanut on Monday emailed me a little while ago to let me know she has two more lop bunnies needing a home. I replied with a firm No, because we just cannot handle more animals.

I was just looking at my email inbox, and noticed she had attachments.

Gah! Don’t click don’t click… dammit! I clicked on them.

Look at that sweet girl!

OMG! This little boy looks like my poor Petri did when he was a baby, see:

NO NO NO NO NO! I cannot have more bunnies.

But if you’re local and need some bunny(ies) to love on, please let me know.

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After hopping around the house, evading mommy’s hands, and playing with the chins, Miss Peanut was all tuckered out.

She’s so pretty. She just melts my heart.

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Happy third Birthday to my nephew, Ethan!

I love you very much.

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I think this was Gizmo’s attempt at foreplay with Storm. Alas, Storm was disinclined to mate, and ran off. Gizmo was, I’m sure, frustrated.

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Last night, Pinelope climbed all over sherlock.

She kept trying to get off the towel, and encountered these arm-like barriers. Eventually, she gave up and took a nap.

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Last night, we sat on the comfy couch with two of our little girls. They were not interested in seeing each other; Peanut kept to my lap and Pinelope kept to sherlock’s lap.

About thirty seconds after I took this picture, Peanut peed on me. See where her butt is? I resisted my initial impulse and did not spread my legs. But the pee rapidly soaked through my jeans, as I hastily handed the camera to sherlock, and tried to scooch off the couch, onto the floor, while not upsetting the bunny, who was still peeing, and trying not to get any pee on the furniture. Yeah, I was thrilled.

On the bright side, it forced me to do laundry last night!

Pinelope is always held on a towel until she’s peed and pooped out, since she will just go whenever. Peanut, however, is semi-litter trained and should not have peed on me.

I do not enjoy being peed on.

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