slideshow: please touch museum, philadelphia, pa
Tag: Sparklet
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more swimming
another slogan to add to the list:- philly: our hotels have swimming pools, too!
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travel: philadelphia, pa
with only a couple days before the lady sparkler starts her new gig, we decided to slip out of town for the weekend. (being at a non-profit, my vacation policy is always much more “robust” than hers, it seemed crazy not to take some time off when it wouldn’t count against mommy’s vacation balance.)and with that, i bring you my suggestions for philly’s next ad campaign based on our experience:
- philly: it’s a heck of a lot cheaper than trying to book something in the mountains or the beach on six days’ notice.
- philly: it’s less hot than both (a) texas, and (b) the face of the sun.
- philly: it’s not the hell hole you remember from your junior high school field trip.
- philly: we have margaritas.
seriously, tho. we’re pretty excited.
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transitions
like the crazy, measures driven parents we are, we’ve been so focused lately on young sparklet’s developmental milestones (almost crawling! she knows her name!) that we’ve totally neglected some of the “other” news in our lives.namely, we have a new nanny, a new nanny share family … and the lady sparkler got a new job.
i’m not drunk enough to publicly explore the reasons behind the nanny transition — if you’d like to contribute to the drinking fund, i’m happy to talk in person — but the important things are that (a) sparklet’s still great, (b) we still love the talimo’s (bff!), and (c) during the transition, the bff’s got an offer of free familial child care that they just couldn’t refuse.
the new nanny share is working out great. the nanny is über comfortable with a kid on each hip, and the share has been going on for more than a decade (tho, obviously, different families have rotated through). the new share baby is a boy, is exactly sparklet’s age (have i mentioned that i strongly support arranged marriages?!?) and lives within walking distance (over by auntie melissa).
as if that wasn’t enough excitement for sparklet’s first summer, the lady sparkler went and got herself a new job.
she wasn’t looking (decidedly not, actually) but got contacted by a head hunter and took the interview for reasons somewhere between being polite and making new contacts in the industry. but, four interviews later, the company made the proverbial offer-she-couldn’t-refuse (salary, seniority, benefits) and as of June 14th, the lady sparkler has a new job.
still doing mostly the same thing, just a couple of blocks farther away — which pretty well sums up the nanny situation, too.
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guestbook: holly and brandon
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guestbook: emily and melissa
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firsts: crawling, army-style
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLOVZGtephU
it’s not scampering around on all fours, but sparklet is now using her arms/torso to drag her healthily-sized bottom around. if emily the cat only knew … her life will never be the same. -
video: sparklet’s first swim
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAwTx-ISv_4
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they have (in no particular order) the “walking piano” from big, a huge basement devoted to recreating wonderland (as in alice, not val-kilmer-as-porn-star), and an entire wing dedicated to kids versions of big people places (grocery store, kitchen, gas station, etc).
seriously, this museum alone made philly worth the trip.