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firsts: movie night with daddy

August 15, 2011

mommy is out of town for work, so sparklet and i did what all good father/daughters do — we put our feet on the couch, threw in (her very first) movie, drank heavily, vegged out on the couch, ate macaroni and cheese straight out of the mixing bowl, and stayed up past our bedtimes.

that’ll teach mommy.

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firsts: movie night with daddy

goodbye, reinita

August 11, 2011

the long transition to our new nanny-share family is drawing to a close. el español picante starts on Monday, and so we’ve had a week’s worth of goodbyes between the baby and the nanny. sparklet’s been mum on the whole thing, but my money is that she’s ready to start using her lady charms on the steamy spaniard.

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goodbye, reinita

out: bancroft

August 10, 2011

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out: bancroft

out: family day

August 9, 2011

more random kids in the nanny’s photography, but these we actually recognize — a grandson, some nieces, and 22-month old sparklet that looks bigger than them all.

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out: family day

found: flowers

August 8, 2011

“why won’t this pony move?!?”

August 8, 2011

guestbook: aunt jojo

August 7, 2011

the great glen echo park meltdown of 2011

August 7, 2011

i’ve got no clue what happened, but apparently sparklet doesn’t like carousels.

and i honestly couldn’t have been more surprised if elvis and a martian walked up to me this afternoon, slapped me in the face, and demanded to be taken to see President Bachmann.

the lady sparkler, aunt melissa and sparklet boarded the old carousel at Glen Echo park, but sparklet started bawling and demanded to be taken off. mommy handed her to me over the railing around the ride, and then got back on — which, to put it mildly, turned out to be the wrong choice.

this coming from the girl who loves anything that involves loud music, bright lights, and being hung upside down by her ankles. even so, it looks like we might need to give it another couple of months.

hike: cabin john trail

August 7, 2011

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hike: cabin john trail, potomac, maryland

found: leaf

August 7, 2011