Our weekend in Bowie and DC

I am sitting on my couch watching CNN and trying to write this blog post. It was such a great weekend and although I am trying to type everything we did and how much fun we had my heart is aching for Boston. To sit here and think that in my dear sweet baby's first year we have been through two major tragedies, Shady Hook Elementary and now the Boston Marathon. It is so scary, sad and tragic to think about the world we are raising our babies in. Praying for Boston. Praying for all those affected. Praying. Here we are on another night where you just take an extra minute and hug your loved ones extra long. Hug them and just don't let go. <3

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It really was a good weekend. Aside from my Friday morning incident... Yeah, let’s start with Friday morning and my WMOY award. What the WMOY you ask? Oh, that would be the Worst Mommy of the Year award and I was the big winner. Friday morning I packed and loaded up Nolie and his backpack in the car and we set off to go to daycare. It was barely raining when I left the house and I was able to get us both in the car with only a few drops of water hitting us. Well, I pulled up to daycare and parked the car in what seemed to have turned into a torrential downpour. Great. And there I sat in the car with no umbrella, so we can run for it, right? Stupidest decision I ever made. My poor baby was soaked and I mean soaked. He was so wet that I had to ask them for a dry pair of his pants that we keep there and changed him. He was so wet that the adorable little girl, Olivia came over to him and said, “oh no, Nolan all wet!” To make matters worse, my umbrella happened to be in the back of my car the entire time! Oh, and had I just waiting in the car 5-10 minutes it would have slowed down, big time. Mommy fail.

So here we are on Monday and it was barely even drizzling this morning. That did not matter, I put the umbrella to use walking Nolan in to daycare today and I will forever use it whenever even a drop of rain is forecasted.

Anyways, back to Friday...

Friday evening we went to the Bowie Baysox minor league baseball game. Ryan did his whole autograph thing. Nolan and I played in the stadium seat and took pictures. He was so proud of himself sitting in the seat like a big boy! We didn’t stay at the game long because it ended up being pretty cold that evening, but we stayed long enough for Nolan to actually watch some of the game.

With the mascot, Louie!

So happy sitting in the seat!

Sharpie in hand and ready for some autographs!

*Yawn* "I want to watch some major league baseball!"

On Saturday morning Alaina and I went to the Howard County Fairgrounds for another one of their kids sales, but the finds were nowhere as exciting as the first time we went. I may have spent $20 if that on a few things.

The weather was perfect on Saturday and so once Ryan was done working at the golf course we went to the DC Zoo! The car was packed full with 3 kiddies in car seats and 3 adults. The DC Zoo is great and to make things better it is free -aside from parking. We paid $22 for parking, but for all of us to spend a day at the zoo, I think that was a great price!

Nolan seemed to really like the tiger. He kept waving and saying “hi” to him. Adorable! Nolan seemed very interested in what they were doing. It was so fun watching him as he kept his eyes on their every move.

I warn you now that there are about 500 Zoo pictures. I tried to narrowed it down, but there are still A LOT.