Two Success Stories

Well, the Wizards just beat the best-in-the-NBA Celtics. GO WIZARDS!

The other big news is that Jake's doing great with potty-training! He's been out of diapers for the past week and except for one slip-up in my closet on the first day, no accidents! And last night we went out for BBQ with the Jacksons, and Jake got to use his first public potty! GO JAKE!!

"And what that guy say?"

Lately Jake has been fixated on conversations that real or imaginary people may be having. If we're in the grocery store and they call for more cashiers over the PA system, Jake will immediately ask: "What that guy saying?" When we read stories, Jake interrupts every page to ask "What little doggie saying? What she saying? And what that guy saying????"

But we realized that he's been storing up all of our answers to his questions and creating his own conversation-based stories. We first started noticing this while driving around the other day. From the back seat, we heard Jake narrating a conversation between two cows. It went something like this (and he used a slightly different voice for each cow, both named "cow"):

"Cow says: Hey what you doing"
"Cow says: Oh, we just walking here"
"Cow says: Oh, look out!"
"Cow says: I fall down, but I'm ok"
"Cow says: You need some help cow?"
"Cow says: I'm ok, I'm just a little bit scared of cows"

He comes up with the best material. I told him he should cross the writer's strike picket line, but I don't think he took me seriously.

Recent pictures

A few people have commented that there is an imbalance in the number of Jake pictures versus Sadie pictures. I thought about it, and realized the real victim here is me. There are hardly ANY pictures of me on tripdub. So here's one for Sadie and me:


This is from a wagon ride yesterday:
And these are from today's trip to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. They don't allow photos on the tour, so here are a few outside, just to prove we were there.