Quick Pic

My friend Samantha hosted a playgroup at her pool a few weeks ago and Kristi snapped this photo

First Metro ride!

I was unable to capture a photo of Addie's first metro ride because she was clinging to me for dear life. She was all excited to go on the "choo choo" and didn't even get scared when she saw the train coming into the station--but when we got on, she all of a sudden began whimpering and saying "all done all done" and burying her head under my chin. We only went 4 stops but it felt like it took an eternity for my scared little rabbit. Once we got off, Addie was all proud of herself. "Addie! Choo choo! Yay!"

Our destination was to meet Addie's friends Mateo and Mason at the National Building Museum in downtown DC--they have a cool room called the Building Zone that has tons of blocks and trains and dress up clothes and a little house you can go into.

Here are some photos I got from my phone camera:

Dressing up like a constructionworker fireman. We made some cool siren noises in this costume.

Hanging out inside the cool house

"Hey mom, can you buy me one of these chairs for home?"

We went to eat our snack in the big hall (and I mean BIG: According to the website, "The Great Hall measures 316 feet by 116 feet, and is 159 feet at its highest point. The fountain is 28 feet across and still has its original terra cotta trim." More about this cool building.)



Addie's reluctant smile that means: "can you just let eat my mini-muffin in peace??? sheesh"

A phone conversation

Today, Addie and I were in the car. She has about 5 fake phones varying in degrees of "realness." Today she was talking on her pink plastic nokia (as close to real as she's going to get) and had a conversation with an imaginary friend with pauses between each word to wait for a response I guess. It went a little something like this:

Lo.
Addie.
Yup.
Cool.
My. Eese.
Doggy.
Yup. Mmmmhmm.
Buh Bye

Translation:

Hello. This is Addie speaking. Yes, I'm fine. How are you?
I went to school today (aka co-op preschool that we just started last month).
Maya and Reese were there, we had fun together playing (her two friends were at school today too)
Yes, I like dogs, thank you for asking.
Good-bye!