Beach hair

Eva’s hair, courtesy of the wind in the Outer Banks.

Reading fools

When Eva was a newborn, I worried I didn’t read to her enough. Sometimes I worry excessively.

The best way to get 20 minutes of quiet time is to put Eva on the floor with a pile of books. She can easily spend an hour throughout the day reading by herself in addition to [...]

A little personality

In the last month, we’ve seen our congenial baby start to form some opinions. Sitting in the recliner? Eva knows there’s a pile of books within Mama’s reach, and we should be reading them right now. A purple toothbrush in sight? A certain baby knows that is her toothbrush, thank you. Time to eat? She’d [...]

Spring vacation in February

A week and a half ago, Eva and I bid farewell to the five foot pile of snow in our front yard and headed West for a balmy vacation in Seattle. Matt flew out and met us a few days later.

The Pacific Northwest is having the warmest winter on record, which sounded more appealing [...]

Snowbound for five days

After our second historic winter storm you would think we would get a break. And we did – for one day.

Yesterday a blizzard dropped 10 inches of new snow. A storm that I agree actually was a blizzard, and I’m picky – I’ve read The Long Winter multiple times and have a literary [...]

Aftermath

It is a clear sunny day and I am still Blackberry blogging. We don’t have a yard stick, but I would guess we have the same amount of snow as Reagan National airport – 18 inches.

I know that doesn’t sound like a lot, but this was actually the fourth largest storm recorded in DC, [...]

Snowpocalypse’s revenge: Snowmageddon

We’re at the tail end of a record breaking snowstorm. It has been snowing for almost 30 hours, and we have at least 18 inches of snow.

Wait, you might ask, didn’t you already blog about this? Good question! This is the second snowstorm this winter to make the top ten list for storm accumulation. [...]

Happy Holidays from the Captain

February is not far away and I find I am unable to write a traditional Christmas post. Perhaps it’s because we have a paltry 207 pictures chronicling Eva’s first Christmas. I might be a little overwhelmed.

Instead, I present one tiny theme from our Christmas week. I give you… Captain Eva!*

It all started [...]

Record breaking snow weekend

Over the weekend the D.C. area was hit by biggest snowstorm we’ve had in years. And in December – it’s virtually unheard of! It started snowing last Friday night and continued steadily through Saturday evening for a total of more than 16 inches in 24 hours. We live close to the city, which means we [...]

Thanksgiving in Seattle

We flew to Seattle on Thanksgiving morning – it was wonderful to have a relatively quiet airport experience and fly on a half full plane. If you look at our pictures, it looks like all we did that weekend was bathe and feed a baby… well, maybe that’s kind of accurate.

There were so [...]