Halfiversary

We recently celebrated our halfiversary (our anniversary is December 21 and very rarely gets celebrated) and Ryan surprised me by setting up a nice evening out for us, our second date since Liam was born. He found a good "pre theatre" deal at a nice restaurant in Georgetown and even chose an outfit for me to wear (he knows how I love to dress up). My favorite things about going to nice restaurants are the look the waiter gets when you tell him you don't drink alcohol and how awkward you feel trying to pretend that you are so classy that you really belong there. It was such an awesome night! Before we had Liam every night was a date night, but now when we do get to go out just the two of us it is so exciting. Its nice to get out and remember how much fun we have with each other. We had lots of laughs, good food and overall just a very wonderful night.


P.S. Christian, notice that Ryan is making "that face" in the picture.

I dream of razor sharp chicken legs

When I am extremely tired (which I am from traveling with a sick and teething baby) I either sleep walk, sleep talk or have completely crazy dreams. Last night I dreamt of Marshal and chicken legs.

It all starts with my mom and I in the hospital with my poor brother Marshal who has chicken legs stuck through his neck. I'm not sure exactly how this happened but I assume he fell onto an upside down chicken at which point said chicken's super sharp bony legs penetrated his neck, at this point the chicken must have detached from the legs because it was only the legs in his neck. One of the legs was removed easily, but the second leg would require more attention, they needed to take some x-rays to make sure they wouldn't damage anything when they were taking it out. Marshal decided it wasn't worth the effort so he would just leave the chicken leg in his neck. I was outraged and informed my mother that since he was 17(he is actually 19) she could force him to get the x-rays and remove the second chicken leg, but she decided to be a hippie kind of mom and leave the decision up to him. I was really upset at this point, but Marshal and my mom would not listen to reason. I knew if I went to my Dad he would put his foot down. However, he was busy touring a big home with a green house that he was thinking about buying in Alaska since they are moving there. Then Christian (my big brother) and I suddenly appear in Alaska and have a philosophical discussion about Marshal and his refusal to remove the chicken leg which was way to deep for this blog.

The dream ends here as Ryan came in and woke me up to say bye and I said smiling "I just had the craziest dream, I think I might blog about it". I have no idea what Marshal decided to do about the chicken leg perforating his neck, but heres hoping this dream wasn't prophetic. Marshal, maybe you should stay away from chickens for a few days just in case.

Update : Marshal put together a picture of him with a chicken leg in his neck, pretty funny, click here to see it.

Read this

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/19/begala.health.care/index.html

It might anger you a bit, it certainly angers me. But it also excites me that with my new job I will be working on congressional hearings like this two days a week. I will probably be more informed than I ever have been and also slightly more enraged.

In other news

My parents and parents in-law pitched in to get me this jogging stroller/bike trailer as an early birthday present. We got a double because we wanted to plan ahead and because Roxy's little legs can only keep up with me running for so long, she usually ends up in there with Liam at the end. I am so excited to be able to go running again! Liam really likes it as well, I think its a pretty fun ride for him. Thank you so much Mom and Dad and Kent and Karen!

And now some pictures of Liam looking cute. He is really working his little arms and legs to try and crawl, I wouldn't be surprised if it happened in the next couple of weeks. Right now he just wiggles around the room a lot.

A Good Day at Work and an annoucement

Every few months my office holds a health fair where you can get an overall health assessment with information about your blood pressure, cholesterol etc. This in itself is a pretty cool perk, but this time they really outdid themselves. They brought in a masseuse, a chiropractor and an accupuncturist. I just got back to my desk from my massage and I'm going down for my spine adjustment later. This has to be one of the best days I've ever had at work! Its the perfect way to end my time here at AvalonBay.

Thats right people, this is my last week as a full time employee! After this week I will work for them a little while longer on a part time basis and then I will start my new part time at home position as an editor and transcriber for the Federal News Service.

I am so excited to be able to spend more time with my little boy and to have more time to keep our lives under control! Now maybe that pile of clothes on the floor will end up in the closet where it belongs....I don't know though, it does make a good bed for Roxy.

Pause

I don't want to overwhelm you, so I will pick up here tomorrow. More close ups of our handsome lad to come!

My Dad Visited

Dad had a quick business trip here so were able to meet up in the city with him for dinner.