Over two hours at the hospital getting all sorts of annual EKGs and echocardiograms done on my little guy and the only time he freaked out was when they asked him to take his shoes off for height and weight. “You are doing a great job,” I told Isaac between chats with multiple doctors toward…
All Clear!
Summertime
Chris was gone for our anniversary last month, but we celebrated early with dinner at Bubba’s. Isaac saying ‘Bubba’s’ is the cutest thing. Wait, maybe not cuter than Isaac pushing Eloise around in a tiny shopping cart. Isaac says a lot of cute things. Here are some examples: “Mom, your eyes are soooo pretty. Look at…
Kangaroos at the Zoo
I talk about the awesome Virginia Zoo a lot…because we come here a lot. We were here three out of four days last week. The Asia and Africa exhibits are really well done. But we often bypass the sad Australia exhibit. The path is fenced off like 10 feet back from the enclosure fence, with…
Butterfly House
With our crappy annual cardiology appointment behind us, the kids and I fluttered to the botanical gardens to tour the butterfly house! It’s open from June until September, and is in the middle of the butterfly gardens. It’s been HOT this summer, but last Thursday was cloudy and mild—perfect for strolling the winding pathways. Every…
Smack that Buoy
One weekend we’re watching that nature movie, “Earth” and it’s pouring down rain outside, and Chris is getting irritated that we have to pause it every five seconds because we have kids, and then we hear this shuffle-shuffle-WHOMP. A tree branch sliced our gate in half! Another branch fell while we were upstate—it was larger…
Wanderlust
Huge day in the K household: the kids’ passports arrived!! I’ve been watching the mailbox for weeks, so I was pretty excited. The kids caught on to that, so they were excited too! We congratulated Eloise on her very first passport, and congratulated Isaac on his new big kid passport. He flipped through the pages…
Farm Box
Our best farm box yet from Farm Table could not have come at a better time. Here we are, quarantined and contagious with strep throat, when into our doldrums drops a box of blueberries (Eloise’s favorite), corn (Isaac’s favorite), tomatoes (my favorite), peaches (everyone’s favorite), plus zucchini, potatoes, crisp lettuce, onions, carrots, and maybe some…