Anniversary Celebration (in three parts)

Celebration Part 1: We had our traditional family birthday party on the actual day (although, as you can see from the photograph, we started eating our birthday cake before we remembered to light the candles and sing).Celebration Part 2: Last night was supposed to be our (Scott my)night to celebrate (although we decided not to leave home).  Scott recalls a particularly romantic moment when Andrew was screaming in his face and the Susanna ran out in the buff (having escaped from me while getting dressed for bed) with a trail (or should I said “tail”– that’s what she calls it) of toilet paper streaming behind her. It ended up being a nice evening because they both went to bed with plenty of time to enjoy our take-out from Bengel Tiger. 

Celebration Part 3: This has yet to happen.  My mom is coming to visit for a while soon and we plan on taking advantage of her residence in our apartment to sneak out between feedings for dessert or something.

Here’s to seven years!  May there be many, many more.

Evening Walks

Andrew has been a bit fussy in the evenings the past few weeks but this has produced a delightful habit: after dinner walks.  It began as something almost necessary, something one of us would do to keep us all sane “here goes Andrew, I guess he wants to go for his walk,”  eventually it became my favorite part of the day.  We would strap Susanna into the jogger and Andrew into the baby bjorn and walk to the Union Bay Natural Area down the street, around the Natural Area loop, and back home.  Susanna always got out of the stroller at the same pond to throw rocks, and always ran to the came clump of trees a ways down the trail to get back into the stroller.  It was perfect.  But alas, it is now dark by the time we’re done with dinner (soon it will be dark at 4:00 pm) so I guess we’ll have to wait until spring to resume our after-dinner walks.  I hope we do.