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  • panorama: frozen potomac river

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  • doug the dinosour

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    the mighty quinn never quite made it through daylight savings time this year. the clock ticked back from 6:30am to 5:30am, but he never reset. by the time we got back from new york, he was waking up as early as 4:45 and not going back to sleep.

    so we got doug.

    doug the dinosaur is a lamp, on a timer. we explained to the mighty quinn that doug was his new roommate, and that we weren’t allowed to get out of bed until doug “woke up” in the morning. (this wasn’t our idea, fwiw. we stole it from friends who, in turn, paid for the advice from a sleep therapist.)

    the first day we set the timer for 5:15am, and put the mighty quinn back to sleep (unconvincingly) until doug woke up about 30 minutes later. the second day we moved it back five minutes, and then ten, etc.

    by day five, the timer was actually going off FIRST, at which point we just set the timer to 7:00am and called it a day. and, for a bonus, even when the mighty quinn gets up first, he plays quietly in his crib until doug’s awake.

    and sanity and balance has been restored to the household.

  • take papi to work day

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    take papi to work day

  • futbol americano

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    fútbol americano

  • snow falling

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  • zoolights

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    the mighty quinn is now officially a flight risk.

    for the first time for either kid, while we were eating dinner in the zoo’s snack bar, he just walked right out the front door — looking for mommy, who had taken sparklet to the bathroom about five minute earlier.

    fortunately, the dad of a family who was sitting near the door saw him wander out and assumed that something wasn’t quite right.

    but it’s officially the end of the innocence for the parker family.

    See Slideshow of the Photos on Flickr:
    zoolights

  • new year’s eve

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    new year’s eve

  • out: air and space

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    out: air and space

  • my two dads

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    my two dads

  • found: ice cream

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