One A Quarter

So I'm way behind.  And tired today and don't feel like writing.  You're just here for the pictures anyway.

Jane and Mom

 Her "I'm smiling for the camera" smile

 Jane adoring Dr. Daddy

 Hiking (and riding) at Great Falls National Park

 Cabbage Patching

 We've made friends with some neighbors, Edward and Phoebe

 For no reason, my friend Joe as a child, on a button.

 Daddy-daughter downward dog

Moved in!

We moved to Virginia two weeks ago, which both feels like a long and short time.  I think we're about done with our Target runs to get all the things we forgot or had to leave behind--turns out they frown on cleaning fluids and aerosol cans in moving trucks.

Anyway!  We visited the American History last weekend, and took Jane to a playplace last week called Busy Bees.  I joined a Mama group, so I hope that'll be a good resource for us.  It's supposed to snow here quite a bit in the next few days.  Jane and I went to the store today and we did our best to stock up on necessities.

Our new place is pretty nice.  At least two other women said they lived here too, when I took Jane to an open house for the mothers' group.  It's not too noisy or anything, plenty of outside space to wander with Jane and Brisco.  I think he's happier getting more walks, instead of our lazy dog-dangling of yore when we'd just put him on his outside line.  (It means getting bundled up and dragging Jane out, though, which means it takes at least three times as long.  Oh well.)

At Busy Bees

 Slide and climbing handholds to go up to the clear plastic bouncy room

 Bouncy room.  Jane sat by the door and let other kids do the bouncing.  But she seemed to have a good time.

 (Guess which kid is ours?)

 Love this blurry shot.

 Much like when my dad visited the computer museum, Andy and I thought, "Why is this in a museum?  And why can't we touch?"  Someone did touch.  Oops.

 Trying on hats

 This little girl?  Not so nice.

 Spam in the place where I live... ham and pork!

 They have an activity room for kids.  The focus this day was making an invention that makes noise.

 $30+ museum lunch.  But at least someone gets a Smithsonian discount!!

 Jane saw this cast iron figure (better picture below) and said, "That's a sperm whale."  It was.  All those hours watching Octonauts were not for naught!

 No caption necessary.

Wish us luck through the blizzard!  Of course it won't compare to Massachusetts, Wisconsin, or Michigan, but it will be just as dangerous if people lose their minds and don't know what to do.  We'll be staying off the roads.

A Little Behind

My mom informed me I am behind on posting once a week.  Huh.

Have a bunch of pictures!

Sleepy Jane in her carseat

 Carrying her lunch bag

 At the opening of a new market.  They have great cider donuts!  Lots of kid-friendly activities.

 Jane won a prize!

 Riding a tractor

 Riding the trolley

 At a different children's event.  Something in Brattleboro, VT.

 Jane got a glitter tattoo.  It lasted for ages.

 Helping to cook.  I think this was teriyaki noodles.

 Hiking at the Quabbin Reservoir.

 Playing with Calvin

 Feeling the fire with Dr. Mark

 Visiting the corn maze.  My friend Lindsey from high school lives in CT now, and came to meet up with us.  This is really the only picture that proves we saw each other!  She's in the purple coat.

 The corn maze was Alice in Wonderland-themed, and this was a room they built that was supposed to make you look really tall or something.  I couldn't get it to work for me.  Maybe my brain is too smart.  But there's Jane, anyway.

 She had a really good time running around, and picking directions for us to walk, even though she usually led us astray.

 They also had animals.

 Jane got some sunglasses as a prize at the dentist.

 Grandma and Grandpa visited!

 One morning we went to Mister G's Halloween concert.  I suggested we find a cafe and get a muffin or something before it started.  Instead we ended up at a fancy bakery, so we HAD to eat things like cupcakes and eclairs.  It was rough.

 Jane didn't last long in her costume.  We saw a lot of Elsas.

 Oh, right!  This was when our well started bringing up silt, and the water was undrinkable and we couldn't wash.  So the idea of carving a pumpkin and scooping out guts and being unable to wash your hands, not so appealing.  Grandma Wendy drew a face on the pumpkin.  Brisco licked some of it off.

 Getting set up for a portrait.  Belly!

 Breakfast sitting next to Grandma

 Andy and I went to DC to look at apartments.  We took Jane's Buppy Bunny so she could see pictures of what the bunny (and we) were doing.  I didn't realize how much this shirt looks like not-a-shirt.  Noted.  Also of note, we were sitting in the shade of the monument.  So were several other people.  It's very open out there.

 This is where Andy will be spending time working!

 And again!

 And there's me, checking out fossils in the basement of the museum.  We may have set off an alarm while we were there.  (We had a guide!)