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We are at the Children’s Museum with our new friend and her 3 year old girl from a meetup group. We wanted to come here while they had Clifford the Big Red Dog exhibit because Immi LOVES Clifford (she is the one who pointed out about this event in the Portland’s newsletter!).
Immi, her dad and her brother are learning all about the history of the Big Red Dog.
Immi is playing with the translucent shapes on the light table. She is, for some reason, obsessed with the isosceles (she won’t even look at the equilateral…). She stacked up all the isosceles triangles into a neat pile and won’t let anyone else touch them.
Here’s immi at the kid-sized [pretend] grocery store.
It’s been interesting having more opportunity to watch immi interact with other kids. Immi is quite specific about what she will share and what she won’t. She is willing to share most things actually, but not the very few selected items (…like the isosceles triangles).
Today is the moving day! We are flying from IAD to PDX. I read that we are now allowed to bring through security checkpoint juice or milk for kids/babies, so I tried my luck. And it’s true, you can bring them. However, they had to make me insert the straw into the box and do liquid test (…to make sure that an asian mom with two kids isn’t about to blow up an airplane by smuggling explosives in a juice box). I can’t carry around a juice box that’s already opened so here’s immi having it on the concourse shuttle on our way to the gate.
Immi and Ashland sleeping on the airplane, their first flight ever!
…and we are here! We are staying at a hotel for the night since it’s late and we can’t pick up the keys to our new place until tomorrow. We are celebrating this very happy occasion with random assortment of junk food we got at the lobby because it’s definitely too late for going out for dinner.
Last night Immi had a sleepover at her Grandma’s house. Today she went with her G-Mom and her friend Jill down to the Washington D.C. Mall because there were some labor day festivities and concerts happening. I just got this picture via Jill’s Blackberry email of them having fun riding the Mall carousel:
Immi-chan seems to be getting more independent and developing a lot of preferences for things. It is actually kind of crazy how much personality Immi has developed considering she is only two. On the weekend Immi 2.0 wants to go to the shopping mall, have sleepovers at her grandparents houses, girls night’s out shopping for shoes, go swimming at the pool or have fun glow stick bubble baths.
We are taking the ferry to Southport NC. It’s sunny and almost too hot outside.
We are having lunch at a little cafe called Baked With Love. Everyone who works here is so nice and they brought for immi a toy tea set to play with!
We are back at the beach house. There’s fireworks at the boardwalk near by and we can see it from our balcony!
It’s my birthday today. The BIG one in which I turn 30! When Todd asked me what I wanted to do for my birthday, I said “go yarn shopping in Alexandria!” (there is a cute little yarn shop called Knit Happens which I’ve never been to). Unfortunately, they are CLOSED on mondays! …so I picked Vienna instead which isn’t exactly my favorite town but it also has a fancy yarn store which I’ve never been to.
…so our day started with coffee and very very very delicious sandwich at Jammin Java. Immi and her dad are having ice water while we wait for the sandwich.
Then we found Uniquities which was located in a hidden area. For such an obscure location, there were quite many people shopping for yarn there! This was really fun for me (I crochet, and I’m very mediocre at it, but I’ve always loved pretty yarn!) but Immi was not pleased that we wouldn’t let her touch any of the pretty fluffy yarns so Todd took her out for a walk (very nice day out!), and then this is what I found them doing in the parking lot when I found them — driving immi!
I’ve been feeling not too well and I’ve finally decided to visit the doctor. After too many negative experiences with more doctors, our new doctor’s office is in DC. I’m waiting at the office and immi is walking with her dad, just around the corner, to get coffee.
It’s cold and windy today!
Here’s immi sitting at Starbucks.
Our friend Alexis works at the National Zoo in DC and we are here to see her for lunch. Immi is sitting on the stairs by the table we are sitting at.
Immi in action!
Immi and her dad looking for macaque (we didn’t see any!).
Immi and her dad at the Big Cat zone. There is a tiger in there and Immi wanted to give him a hug!
We had a very nice time at the Zoo. BUT we were severely disappointed that THEY DON’T HAVE ANY GIRAFFES!!!!! Alexis told us that one of the two were sent away a couple of years ago and the other one got sick : (
We are camping in the GW National Forest area. Jordan invited us (and 8 of his other friends!) to stay in his family friend’s hunting lodge located on a spacious grassy flat land surrounded by the forest. We drove down here last night (about 2.5 hour drive) and now enjoying the gorgeous day out.
Immi is running around and playing in the tall and fluffy grass.
Jordan is making for us a tub of homemade strawberry ice cream!! Immi is spectating.
Immi is setting up her toy picnic.
Immi and I.
