I don't know how Zachary survives. He often goes to sleep at the same time as I do if not after and then wakes up at least an hour and a half before me and I regularly take naps. Sometimes, he takes couch naps in the afternoons. Somehow. With two crazy kids running around, I don't know how he sleeps through all the noise but I guess he's just that tired.
So my kid isn't even in school yet and I'm already running out of space to put artwork so I did something I've read about- take pictures of the art work and then you can *gasp* throw the actual artwork away. So here we go:
Also saw these on facebook and loved them:
Oh Malia. Zachary went to the Nationals' baseball game today with a bunch of midshipmen. He was on the task force so he was in charger of making sure everyone was safe and didn't do anything stupid. So things happen when there's one adult and two children. Here's one of them:
She went upstairs by herself, got in her room, somehow got the wipes off her dresser and picked one out- brought it downstairs and asked me to help her get the marks off her leg. How smart is she?? She also made this cushion fort:
Here's another one of those things that happens when the number of children is greater than the number of adults, artwork from Liam:
Zachary wasn't home and today was the first Sunday of football. I was so disappointed because I had been looking forward to watching with him. But I also saw this and sent it to him in case he wasn't aware:
He did make it home for the night game and when he saw this (Patriots' player, Danny Amendola, helping hold the flag during the national anthem), he had a new favorite player.
Zachary and I celebrated our second wedding anniversary in DC. I had never been before but Zachary knew it was a somewhere I really wanted to go so while he was in Dahlgren for a school it seemed like the perfect time to go. At 6 months pregnant, I walked all over DC and went to the Smithsonian Zoo. We got our little Liam a stuffed hippo. Jeannie ended up destroying this hippo so my mom and brother got him a replacement when they went to DC years later. Anyway- in a similar fashion- when I was close to 9 months pregnant, we took Liam to the Baltimore aquarium and we picked up a dolphin for Miss Malia. Today, Malia fell in love with the dolphin and started kissing... we need to come up with a name for the dolphin... let's go with DeeDee (to match Gigi).
Later, Zachary was holding Malia and doing work at the computer when Liam decided he wanted to be held too. Then he wanted to move. So while I was pumping, Zachary, Liam and Malia came in to say hi rolling around in their chair.
When I got done pumping, we packed up and headed to the gym. While the kids where in the childcare room, one of the little girls decided Malia needed a picture so she asked the girls working there if they'd help her draw a picture for her to take home- she asked them how to spell her name and everything- how sweet!
