Trip to the Koc museum

 We visited the exciting Koc Museum this weekend. Micah was excited to check out all the trains, cars, and airplanes. It is a very nice museum and we adults could have spent hours there looking at their fun displays...alas Micah was a little bit miffed that you couldn't get inside every single vehicle.

 Toot Toot!

 Neigh!

 Now, why didn't we think of this place for our wedding pictures?

 On the carousel, Micah skipped all of the horses and went straight for the car. I said, "don't you want to go 'up, down' on the horses?" "no!" Cars are best.

 This was a fun old fashioned train ride along the waterfront. Nap time has hit as you can tell by the far off look in our son's eyes.

 Is there any more to see here guys?

Ah ha! A bus from London! Wow.

what is a jicama?

that is the current size of our baby....girl.


Yes, we unexpectedly found out we are having a girl. We're delighted.

We just wish we knew what a jicama was.

New tastes

Having just finished the autobiography of an individual living here from the early 1900s, one thing that amazes me is that the food that people here eat and love has not changed in over 100 years! Also, there doesn't seem to be much difference between how a dish is prepared at one restaurant versus another. It might be done better (fresher ingredients or something?) at one place, but there doesn't appear to be variation in what is served. Wow. This is so foreign to me when I try not to eat at the same restaurant at home twice until I've tried all the different options in town.....or at least not order the same thing twice. And...I just checked Red Robin's website and there are indeed 13 different types of burgers available...with chefs always seeking to introduce something new. So what is our obsession in America with new tastes? and new experiences for that matter? Even as I write this I know that there are lots of people who prefer to eat at the same place month after month...my parents for example :). So maybe it's just my personal obsession with trying to not miss out on anything this good earth and it's diverse chefs have to offer. And yet I still have limitations....sushi, dates (they look like cockroaches to me), and unidentifiable parts of animals I might give names to.

New favorite activities

Stickers! First we put them all over our clothes...then we transfer them to our clothes for the next day...only after the second day of fashion do we put them on paper.

And....finger painting! We tried at Thanksgiving and it was a major no go to have stuff on our hands. Micah has gotten over it and loves to get messy! Hooray! One more thing to do on rainy winter days.

Our next challenge....to learn how to use scissors.

Rick's birthday

Rick was super-thrilled with his birthday this year:

breakfast in bed
Krispy Kreme donuts shared with his classmates at school
pizza & red wine dinner with friends
2 hours of StarCraft with a friend here and his brother-in-law

Really, what more could a guy in his 30s want?

Numbers

30 weeks – pregnant

1 week – left of formal language class

9 - number of the floor where my language class is - thankfully the elevator goes to the 8th floor

30 minutes – about how long I can lay or sit in one position

25 minutes – the length of our bus trip to school & about how much I can take before wanting to be sick

3 – bathroom breaks each night

2 – number of breakfasts I have each morning: baby takes the first one and leaves me starving again by 9

1 - number of nights we have tried letting Micah sleep in his 'toddler bed' - Rick removed the side of his crib and attached the low toddler side. Micah can now hop in his own bed. We'll see how he does!

Wake Up Part II