It was nice getting to spend time with Richie again, although I had to moonlight all Saturday morning. Mama decided that Sunday, the Y chromosomes in the house were going to go spend the day at the Science Center. ML had been taking him there when I was at home for long stretches studying. About two weeks prior to the exam, Richie was getting very upset with all of my studying and would stomp around saying, "No study! No study!" It was heartbreakingly funny. He has really started investigating much more of what the center has too offer. So, when she announced that the boys were having a day together, I was a bit apprehensive. But, after a considerable amount of gentle fussing, I relented. I'm a DOCTOR, after all! We left just before it opened and they were doing big bubbles outside. Richie wanted to do that, so we spent our first 50 minutes doing that. I got more comfortable, because I realized that, although I can only understand like a 1/10 of what he says, it's very clear what he wants to do! So, after bubbles we went inside to see a planetarium show...he LOVES the planetarium! I'm hopeful I'll be able to take him to the one at Fernbank, where I went to magnet school. I actually did my own presentation in the planetarium as part of my astronomy class! I don't remember much about it other than it was one the various shapes of galaxies. But I know I did one!
Other than studying A LOT, since the last post, we did visit with some friends of my from Boston. They've been featured here before, so you may recognize them! Their daughter has really grown, so you may not recognize her.
Oh! Richie also won his group in the summer reading program and got tickets to the aquarium and O's, so we did that, too! Don't remember if that was in the last post or not, but you'll see some pictures of that, too.
This is just a cute picture we took of Richie the other day. We changed phone service and now we have smart phones and I was trying to get a cute one for Mama's background. Oh, by the way, Richie understand the word "background" and uses it whenever he can!
Just come other cute pictures from a "good" hair day. Richie has started asking us to cut it, and we will likely cut it next week and donate it to Locks of Love. So enjoy it while you can! (Yes, I will be keeping a curl.)
As part of the Baltimore Gran Prix, which apparently went better than expected, several of the museums were open for free so Mama and Richie took the opportunity to go to the B&O railroad. Maybe she'll log-in and add some more detail as to what we're looking at. I, of course, was studying. Or, maybe, actually at work.
Another thing that recently happened is I won a Woot-off and got a random bag of crap. This is the crap, and I must say, it is far crappier than the crap I won last time, which was two years ago. Back then I won 6 iPod nano clones from Sansa. 5 of which actually worked. And a bunch of lesser crap. This time it was just lesser crap.
This was exciting! When ever we have warning that poopies may be coming we ask if Richie wants to use his potty. He usually says no, except for one time. Yes, I have a picture, but probably won't be posting THAT one. This time he said, "Big Potty?" so here we are. Since then we got a little insert. But no success yet. Baby steps!
This was at he aquarium. We saw this big snake in a tree and we were desperately trying to get him to look at the snake hidden in the tree, but he did not understand how to follow the imaginary line from our hands. So, in a moment of "brilliance" I took the camera and zoomed in really close and showed him the snake on the screen. Then I zoomed back so he could see it was in the tree. You could practically see the light bulb going on over his head!
Bubble tubes are still a BIG hit.
This is just at the entrance. I think this is a set of teeth from a shark that lived back in the dinosaur era.
Ans here are our friends the Coelho family and their daughter Julia!
I'll try to post more later if I have time.....
I just checked. I think I am caught up with the pictures that are on the camera. I know I'm way behind on the movies, but that take considerably longer to do, so it will have to wait unfortunately.
