These babies have been growing up like crazy, everyday they do something that just blows my mind. And they’re playing together! Sort of. As much as a 2(.5) and 14(.75) month old can. Claire likes to lay next to him and hold her toys above their heads so they can both see them. Logan smiles at the bright colors and reaches out and tries to hit them. Claire likes to hold him and give him kisses on the head (or really anywhere she can reach). Logan likes to lay there and pray she doesn’t throw him, as she is wont to do with anything that loses her attention these days. Seriously, when I see him smiling whenever he sees her face, and her offering him toys and pacifiers and even her much coveted morning bottle of milk, I swear I pass out for a few microseconds from the absolute adorableness of it all.

Look at this punk, wasn’t he born yesterday?

She actually spends time in her room. She's gotten past that "I-must-be-near-you-at-all-times" phase she hit around 10 months and is starting to enjoy alone time in her room. It probably helps that all of her toys and books are in there, and that when she drags them down the hall and into the kitchen and living room I take five minutes to gather them all back up and put them back in her room. Five minutes that gives me at least another half hour to finish work or chores while she plays happily by herself.

Heart implosion.

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Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday

We went to the National Zoo this weekend with my aunt Danielle. We were going to go on Friday as it was 79° and sunny, but we got caught up running errands, so we went Saturday. It was still rather sunny and 67°, so a very nice day. We took the Metro because it’s $20 a car (and with three adults plus two babies it would be two cars) for a crappy parking spot at the zoo unless you get there at 9:30 am and wait for the zoo to open at 10 am or you circle the parking lots for an hour.

Unfortunately I forgot my camera, and of course the animals were being super awesome. As we took the Metro we went in the main entrance so we started on the Asia Trail. There we got to see a clouded leopard chilling in his perch; a fishing cat named Lek who came from the Cincinnati Zoo in December; some Asian small-clawed otters hanging out playing with pebbles; and a young Asian elephant playing with his tire swing. Claire was particularly taken by the elephant and his crazy antics. Of course we didn’t see any pandas, damn pandas and their fickle nature. Oh, everyone loves pandas they’re so cute and they have their own damn shop at the zoo. They are the most boring bears ever.

After the Asia Trail we hit up the Small Mammal House. Claire had a good time looking at all of the small animals, except the black and rufous elephant shrew (pictured at right) which gave her quite the startle at first. The meerkats were being particularly adorable, but Claire didn’t get to get a good look at them because there were two adults blocking the entire exhibit taking pictures and videos of the meerkats while a gaggle of kids stood behind them. Seriously, after you get ten or twenty photos and five minutes of video, it’s time to move along and let the kids have a look, but oh no these people didn’t move until all of the meerkats scurried back into the private section of their exhibit and none of the kids were able to see them. Jerks.

At the Great Cats Exhibit we saw a tiger playing around with his toys. Then the lion who was the biggest diva. Just sitting on his rock looking bored and refusing to even acknowledge all of the onlookers. Whatev lion, I’ll just go watch the tiger swim and do some other awesome stuff. Claire loved the big cats, she did a lot of pointing and yelling “cat” at them. I’m sure she really wanted to pet them and sit on them (everything must be sat on these days, cats are no exception).

After lion and tiger hill we went down to the Kids’ Farm. On the way we got to see the prairie dogs that had been moved out of the Small Mammal House to a little open exhibit. Like really open. There wasn’t anything to actually keep them in their little dirt hills, besides the hordes of people milling about them. I tried to start some “jump yip” action with them, but alas to no avail. At the Kids’ Farm the Caring Corral wasn’t staffed so Claire didn’t get to groom a goat, but at the Barn she did meet some donkeys, cows, goats, alpacas and hogs that were much fun to pet and yell at. She even liked the koi in the pond behind the barn, and the bunnies that were further down the path.

Overall it was a fun trip to the zoo, and on the Metro trip back aunt Dani is pretty sure we were sitting near a serial killer. He was muttering to himself a lot, and doing some strange things with his hands to the back of his head. Oh the joys of our nation’s capitol.

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Andrew, the kids and I went up to Charlottesville this weekend. Somehow we had even more stuff in his parents’ basement that we needed to haul back down to our place. Yay, more boxes.

Claire eating a banana, because that's all she does anymore. It's nonstop eating, and it's rather impressive.

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