Dada got a top score (all 4's) in his Radiology Physics Boards Exam....Hooray!
Actually, that means he studied too much.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Sunday, October 10, 2010
10/10/10
I suppose almost everyone is posting today. I tried to post a movie on One-Day-On-Earth, but you can only post pictures...so I posted a picture. Took a few movies today to try to capture a really cute one.
But, before we talk about that, lets talk about Richie's first Dim Sum! Let's start the story: On September 27th, I received an e-mail from my Aunt-Carole that said the following:
"Hi Marylee, Elliot and Prince Ritchie...I will be in college park late
the 4th thru the following Monday AM... I leave at noon...so maybe you
could come to the airport and visit for an hour. My guess is that
Heidi will bring me to the airport early so she can go to work. Or
maybe we can work something else out. she has bought a house in
College Park so I will be there. Hope all is well. Carole"
We will ignore the incorrect spelling of my name and Richie's, and move on. I knew I was going to be working on the 9th but free on the 10th and she'd still be in town. The e-mails that followed, which included her friend who lives in Maryland, established that it is their tradition to have Sunday Dim Sum when Carole visits. Not to be too large a perturbation, we obliged the tradition. I asked around the department to find a place that would split the distance between us and still be tasty. We found the Red Pearl in Columbia. We corresponded on the location and all agreed to meet at 11:30am.
We left our house just a couple of minutes late, about 11:03am when ML mentions, "Don't forget there's a game today." I started my usual path and ML thought it was going to be too congested. I took an alternate, but it turned out the road was blocked. We finally got on the highway at 11:20am. Anyone who has visited knows that is an inordinate amount of time for me to access the freeway from my house. I asked ML to call Carole because I knew we were going to be late. But, no answer. Then I thought how odd it was that we had not heard from either of them in the days up to this event.
From Carole's visit when GG hurt herself, I knew that Carole phone was frequently plagued by a dead battery, or off, or just not audible. No worries. We arrived about 15 min late and ML went to go look for them. They weren't there, so we called again. By that time we had informed the hostess that we were awaiting two more adults, but they found a table for us anyway. After a couple of attempts at communication I decided we better start eating because I figured they forgot. And, unfortunately, we don't have Carole's friend's phone. (Yes, I'm leaving her name out on purpose. I like her.) We have a nice meal and gather ourselves to get Richie home and to bed for a nap. He was telling us he was sleeping toward the end of things.
I should also mention that we called Papa-Nat at some point to verify we had the correct cell number for Carole.
After getting home and sending an e-mail, Carole replies this evening. She's apparently coming into town November 4th. Yes, Papa-Nat, I know you told me. She is a "Space Cadet."
Richie at his first Dim Sum eating yummy Chinese Broccoli! He also had pock-bun, taro root, and other various dumplings.
Richie was watching an older boy play outside
Saturday evening we went to our annual block-party. Richie made lots of new friends and enjoyed watching the babies being fed.
Our new babysitter! Richie has lost all stranger anxiety. At least for women.
`
But, before we talk about that, lets talk about Richie's first Dim Sum! Let's start the story: On September 27th, I received an e-mail from my Aunt-Carole that said the following:
"Hi Marylee, Elliot and Prince Ritchie...I will be in college park late
the 4th thru the following Monday AM... I leave at noon...so maybe you
could come to the airport and visit for an hour. My guess is that
Heidi will bring me to the airport early so she can go to work. Or
maybe we can work something else out. she has bought a house in
College Park so I will be there. Hope all is well. Carole"
We will ignore the incorrect spelling of my name and Richie's, and move on. I knew I was going to be working on the 9th but free on the 10th and she'd still be in town. The e-mails that followed, which included her friend who lives in Maryland, established that it is their tradition to have Sunday Dim Sum when Carole visits. Not to be too large a perturbation, we obliged the tradition. I asked around the department to find a place that would split the distance between us and still be tasty. We found the Red Pearl in Columbia. We corresponded on the location and all agreed to meet at 11:30am.
We left our house just a couple of minutes late, about 11:03am when ML mentions, "Don't forget there's a game today." I started my usual path and ML thought it was going to be too congested. I took an alternate, but it turned out the road was blocked. We finally got on the highway at 11:20am. Anyone who has visited knows that is an inordinate amount of time for me to access the freeway from my house. I asked ML to call Carole because I knew we were going to be late. But, no answer. Then I thought how odd it was that we had not heard from either of them in the days up to this event.
From Carole's visit when GG hurt herself, I knew that Carole phone was frequently plagued by a dead battery, or off, or just not audible. No worries. We arrived about 15 min late and ML went to go look for them. They weren't there, so we called again. By that time we had informed the hostess that we were awaiting two more adults, but they found a table for us anyway. After a couple of attempts at communication I decided we better start eating because I figured they forgot. And, unfortunately, we don't have Carole's friend's phone. (Yes, I'm leaving her name out on purpose. I like her.) We have a nice meal and gather ourselves to get Richie home and to bed for a nap. He was telling us he was sleeping toward the end of things.
I should also mention that we called Papa-Nat at some point to verify we had the correct cell number for Carole.
After getting home and sending an e-mail, Carole replies this evening. She's apparently coming into town November 4th. Yes, Papa-Nat, I know you told me. She is a "Space Cadet."
Richie at his first Dim Sum eating yummy Chinese Broccoli! He also had pock-bun, taro root, and other various dumplings.
Richie was watching an older boy play outside
Saturday evening we went to our annual block-party. Richie made lots of new friends and enjoyed watching the babies being fed.
Our new babysitter! Richie has lost all stranger anxiety. At least for women.
`
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Birthday Trip to Atlanta
For Daddy's birthday, we took a few days off from work and drove down to Atlanta to visit with friends and family! We also went to the Georgia Aquarium!
Out on the porch is Richie with "Oma!"
Here we find Richie with all of his paternal grandparents and Great-Grandma-GG. Yes, that's GGGG or G4!
Here are all of the Atlanta relatives: Eli, Darrel, Connie, Sammy, Oma, Honey, Papa-Nat and G4.
Aunt-Beth and Cousin-Conner
Down the road from Aunt-Stinky is a little farm with a Pony! (Who has a pony?)
Sammy and Richie read to ride the gator
Connor! Don't touch the sheep! It's a zombie! You can tell from the eyes!
Aunt-Stinky gets very upset if I don't post a picture of her. Too bad the is the LEAST unflattering picture I took. Sorry Uncle Vic. You were caught in the crossfire.
Gee-Gee!
The Atlanta Aquarium was full of all sorts of fish Richie has not had the pleasure of meeting. He did seem all too close to these rather large piranha!
This is from the back-side of the piranha tank.
Richie. What does an alligator say?
The boy in the bubble.
Fish-fish-fish!
Ptptptpt-kiss-kiss-kiss, yes, that's how a Richie says See horse!
Penguin! Note the look-hole in the background.
Richie and Dada in a look-out hole
Richie! Zombie fish are coming to attack you!
After a long day at the aquarium, Richie will sleep just about anywhere.
On the drive back, we passed by the good-old Giant Peach water-tower in Gaffney, S.C.
This is one of Richie's favorite videos to watch. He loves to point out Mama and Oma when they make their cameos.
Sea Jellies! (Yes, they used to be Jellyfish, but no more! It the same people that say Pluto is not a planet...Freaks!)
Sometimes trying to get Richie to smile for a picture take more effort than expected.
Hanging out wit da fishes.
PIGGY!
Out on the porch is Richie with "Oma!"
Here we find Richie with all of his paternal grandparents and Great-Grandma-GG. Yes, that's GGGG or G4!
Here are all of the Atlanta relatives: Eli, Darrel, Connie, Sammy, Oma, Honey, Papa-Nat and G4.
Aunt-Beth and Cousin-Conner
Down the road from Aunt-Stinky is a little farm with a Pony! (Who has a pony?)
Sammy and Richie read to ride the gator
Connor! Don't touch the sheep! It's a zombie! You can tell from the eyes!
Aunt-Stinky gets very upset if I don't post a picture of her. Too bad the is the LEAST unflattering picture I took. Sorry Uncle Vic. You were caught in the crossfire.
Gee-Gee!
The Atlanta Aquarium was full of all sorts of fish Richie has not had the pleasure of meeting. He did seem all too close to these rather large piranha!
This is from the back-side of the piranha tank.
Richie. What does an alligator say?
The boy in the bubble.
Fish-fish-fish!
Ptptptpt-kiss-kiss-kiss, yes, that's how a Richie says See horse!
Penguin! Note the look-hole in the background.
Richie and Dada in a look-out hole
Richie! Zombie fish are coming to attack you!
After a long day at the aquarium, Richie will sleep just about anywhere.
On the drive back, we passed by the good-old Giant Peach water-tower in Gaffney, S.C.
This is one of Richie's favorite videos to watch. He loves to point out Mama and Oma when they make their cameos.
Sea Jellies! (Yes, they used to be Jellyfish, but no more! It the same people that say Pluto is not a planet...Freaks!)
Sometimes trying to get Richie to smile for a picture take more effort than expected.
Hanging out wit da fishes.
PIGGY!
Sunday, October 3, 2010
So much to do...
Huh...I've been surprisingly busy and I have lots to post, but this is a must!
In case you don't know:
Oma = Granie Esther
Gee Gee= Great Grandma' Gert
Ning Ning = Grandma' Schin
Nan Ya =Aunt Stinky
Oh, and here's a peek into the future! A futuristic picture from the end of this month...
In case you don't know:
Oma = Granie Esther
Gee Gee= Great Grandma' Gert
Ning Ning = Grandma' Schin
Nan Ya =Aunt Stinky
Oh, and here's a peek into the future! A futuristic picture from the end of this month...
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Getting Caught Up
Since Papa-N landed his little butt in the hospital for a couple of days, I thought it was time to get caught up so he could have some inspirational get-well material!
Richie did a wonderful job reading in the summer reading program during which time he read 238 unique books...or, rather had 238 unique books read to him. Now, anyone that has spent any amount of time with Richie knows that each book was reread around 5 times. :-) At the end of the summer reading program, they hold a little party...
Here is the shirt they gave out:
Here is Richie's original reading booklet. It filled up quickly and we had to switch to an Excel spreadsheet.
For being such a good reader, he earned tickets to the National Aquarium! (They did that last year, too.)
And, again, we won tickets to the Orioles game like last year!
Similar to last year, the O's are not doing to well so the stadium is not well attended. So, like last year, we skipped our ticketed seats which would have us in the third balcony and found an almost empty row to the right of home plate! Like last year, we just walked in with purpose and sat down in an almost empty row like we knew what we were doing. Ironically, we were sitting in the last row in the section and just in front of the "Seat-Nazi" who spent almost the entire game talking with her coworker about all of the people she's had to move out of the wrong seats that evening. The best place to hide something it in plain view!
It was really hot that night and we were all a little schvitzy.
If you see a faint white streak bisecting the chalk lines, you'll see the ball!
We had 1/2 the row the entire time we were at the game.
Richie seems to know exactly where he is!
It was quite hot! ML will tell you how appropriate it is for Richie to wipe the sweat from his face on my shirt. I did not know such behavior was passed genetically!
He's an amazing little boy!
Here are some cute pictures from that same evening...
Check out that toothy smile!
As many of you know, Richie really enjoys fish! So you'd think he'd go ape-sh!t at the aquarium. Don't get me wrong, he enjoyed it, but he didn't make a bid deal about it. However, now when he's in my office all he wants to do it watch the movies! He points to himself, then the monitors and makes repeated fish-noises! His favorite fish movies are below.
See? No big smiles....odd...and sad...he didn't seem ill that night, just not enthused.
A giant shark is eating my baby!
This is his second favorite movie. It took me a while to figure that out. When we sit at the computer, once he's done with his favorite movie (the one after this one) I'd start going through all of the movies. He'd kick my legs, shake his head and make fish-noises. It took me a few days to realize when I show this movie he stops kicking and shaking his head!
He knows exactly how to ask for the following video. He makes his fish noise followed by his horse noise! Not very difficult for me to put together but amazing that he came up with that combination on his own.
Here's just a cute picture of Ma-ma and Ga-ga.
Richie and Mama when to the Baltimore Science Center where they got to hold some lights in front of a camera with a long exposure.
We joined in the celebration of our friend Christopher's second birthday. (This is the boy who was giving us all of the hand-me-down clothes until 6 months ago when Richie sprouted past him in size.) Last year he really did not like that hat...this year he wanted two!
Richie asking "Please" while sitting in my old baby-seat.
There is a fountain called the Splash-Pad in the Inner Harbor. Richie really started to enjoy it this year.
The day we took those shots of the splash pad, this was sitting in our harbor. Don't really know why.
Splash-Pad!
Richie News:
His talking has really blossomed. He says Ga-ga (for Da-da), Ma-Ma, and Ning-ning almost continually with a few O's, Uh-Oh, Ow and Meow's thrown in for good measure. Ning-ning was originally what he called one of the characters from a book which was Thing-Thing, but then he decided it was to be Na-Na's new name. Strangely, he will occasionally say "Google!" And we're working on Oma since he knows both parts. If you coach him a little, he'll say them consecutively, but he has not yet put the sounds together consistently...every once in a while he'll eek a noise out that sounds like Oma.
He is off the chart for height and in the 90%ile for weight. As of last Tuesday, he weighed 29.8 lbs. Feels like more probably because of the diapers. His local pediatrician is very pleased with Richie's progress and growth. He seems more concerned about Richie's night-time bottle feeding than we are. He takes two bottle before we brush his teeth and put him to bed. He whimpers for a moment until you've left the room and then rolls/goofs around for up to 15 minutes before passing out. It has gotten much easier than it used to be. Oh! And he sleeping through the night again! (Hope I'm not jinxing it for tonight.)
Richie did a wonderful job reading in the summer reading program during which time he read 238 unique books...or, rather had 238 unique books read to him. Now, anyone that has spent any amount of time with Richie knows that each book was reread around 5 times. :-) At the end of the summer reading program, they hold a little party...
Here is the shirt they gave out:
Here is Richie's original reading booklet. It filled up quickly and we had to switch to an Excel spreadsheet.
For being such a good reader, he earned tickets to the National Aquarium! (They did that last year, too.)
And, again, we won tickets to the Orioles game like last year!
Similar to last year, the O's are not doing to well so the stadium is not well attended. So, like last year, we skipped our ticketed seats which would have us in the third balcony and found an almost empty row to the right of home plate! Like last year, we just walked in with purpose and sat down in an almost empty row like we knew what we were doing. Ironically, we were sitting in the last row in the section and just in front of the "Seat-Nazi" who spent almost the entire game talking with her coworker about all of the people she's had to move out of the wrong seats that evening. The best place to hide something it in plain view!
It was really hot that night and we were all a little schvitzy.
If you see a faint white streak bisecting the chalk lines, you'll see the ball!
We had 1/2 the row the entire time we were at the game.
Richie seems to know exactly where he is!
It was quite hot! ML will tell you how appropriate it is for Richie to wipe the sweat from his face on my shirt. I did not know such behavior was passed genetically!
He's an amazing little boy!
Here are some cute pictures from that same evening...
Check out that toothy smile!
As many of you know, Richie really enjoys fish! So you'd think he'd go ape-sh!t at the aquarium. Don't get me wrong, he enjoyed it, but he didn't make a bid deal about it. However, now when he's in my office all he wants to do it watch the movies! He points to himself, then the monitors and makes repeated fish-noises! His favorite fish movies are below.
See? No big smiles....odd...and sad...he didn't seem ill that night, just not enthused.
A giant shark is eating my baby!
This is his second favorite movie. It took me a while to figure that out. When we sit at the computer, once he's done with his favorite movie (the one after this one) I'd start going through all of the movies. He'd kick my legs, shake his head and make fish-noises. It took me a few days to realize when I show this movie he stops kicking and shaking his head!
He knows exactly how to ask for the following video. He makes his fish noise followed by his horse noise! Not very difficult for me to put together but amazing that he came up with that combination on his own.
Here's just a cute picture of Ma-ma and Ga-ga.
Richie and Mama when to the Baltimore Science Center where they got to hold some lights in front of a camera with a long exposure.
We joined in the celebration of our friend Christopher's second birthday. (This is the boy who was giving us all of the hand-me-down clothes until 6 months ago when Richie sprouted past him in size.) Last year he really did not like that hat...this year he wanted two!
Richie asking "Please" while sitting in my old baby-seat.
There is a fountain called the Splash-Pad in the Inner Harbor. Richie really started to enjoy it this year.
The day we took those shots of the splash pad, this was sitting in our harbor. Don't really know why.
Splash-Pad!
Richie News:
His talking has really blossomed. He says Ga-ga (for Da-da), Ma-Ma, and Ning-ning almost continually with a few O's, Uh-Oh, Ow and Meow's thrown in for good measure. Ning-ning was originally what he called one of the characters from a book which was Thing-Thing, but then he decided it was to be Na-Na's new name. Strangely, he will occasionally say "Google!" And we're working on Oma since he knows both parts. If you coach him a little, he'll say them consecutively, but he has not yet put the sounds together consistently...every once in a while he'll eek a noise out that sounds like Oma.
He is off the chart for height and in the 90%ile for weight. As of last Tuesday, he weighed 29.8 lbs. Feels like more probably because of the diapers. His local pediatrician is very pleased with Richie's progress and growth. He seems more concerned about Richie's night-time bottle feeding than we are. He takes two bottle before we brush his teeth and put him to bed. He whimpers for a moment until you've left the room and then rolls/goofs around for up to 15 minutes before passing out. It has gotten much easier than it used to be. Oh! And he sleeping through the night again! (Hope I'm not jinxing it for tonight.)
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