Symphony or Exercise???

So, Phil called me on Wednesday asking me out on a date to see Beethoven's 9th symphony since I'm currently reading his biography. We arranged for a babysitter and figured that we would purchase tickets when we got there since I'm still technically a grad student and I get a discount. I've been to many symphonies my days and I've NEVER been to one with a packed house so I didn't even consider the possibility that the show would be sold out. I think we made history last night...the first couple to be turned away from a symphony performance. What happened to the struggling arts?

This was us all dressed up, ready to be high class and to lower the average age of the audience at least 20 years.

This is us after driving 40 miles only to be escorted out...what else could we do at 9:00 with only an hour and a half left with a babysitter. That's right. We went on a night run in the rain.

Although the night was a date disaster, we still had a good time and we exercised long enough to indulge in some mint moose track ice cream. Anyone top that?

One finger is NOT enough

Yes. That time has come. Chase LOVES putting anything in his mouth and when nothing is in reach, he resorts to ALL of his fingers. He apparently doesn't chose favorites.

We went to the National Arboretum in Washington DC last weekend and found this beautiful flower which became victim to Chase's new found hobby.

He goes for the reach
Then to the mouth...yummy.
The after shot...sign of success. I guess that flower has loads of excess pollen waiting to unload on unsuspecting observers. The pollen originally a purple coarse powder became a yellow stain when mixed with saliva that took two days to completely disappear.


A funny sign that was posted right in the middle of a beautiful nature trail. Random but quite fitting for our little guy!

"Turn off the burner," said Phil...

Phil is always tellin me to turn the oven and burners off when I'm done...well I learned my lesson today and I will finally take his advice. I made brownies today to surprise Phil...I NEVER bake for him so I thought I would make a tasty treat for our Monday FHE night. I was very careful not to burn the brownies IN the oven...and figured once I took them out, I was off the hook of any dangers that would ruin my wonderful surprise. Well I guess that I had forgotten to turn off the stupid burner after making dinner and placed my wonderfully perfect brownies on the burner that was still lit (it only had a little flame...I'm not completely oblivious). Tell me this has happened to someone else! This definitely tops the night when I accidentally elbowed the pan that held our dinner and splattered ALL over the floor.

The bottom of my brownie pan...

In other news. Chase has rolled over and I actually witnessed it :)

Acting out...Part II

So, Bogart got bored the other day and decided to have a hay day in my garden. Yep...that means he ate several plants, dug holes everywhere, and trampled and ruined my nicely stacked rows. Luckily, I have an awesome husband who made a home depot run and together we rebuilt it and put another 2 feet of chicken wire around the garden now making a 5 foot high barrier...I'm going to have to do the polvault to get over and into the garden but least it will stay Bogart free!

Bogart's recent bad behavior didn't stop us from celebrating his one year birthday...actually we just wanted a good excuse for some cake :)

As a sidenote...I can never seem to keep Chase's arms IN this snuggli.

GROSS

Bogart has acted out...probably because of his recent manicure. I came home to a house full of torn up diapers. I left the house for apparently too long and Bogart found the trash can of diapers and dove in. He'll be outside until I get over being grossed out :) I guess he just had to prove his manhood.

Carried Away

I got carried away again...and painted poor Boggies nails. He's been licking at his paw and hiding it all day seemingly ashamed at his new girly look. Oh, and I know my toes are crooked so no need to comment about them :) Phil tried to paint my skin once where my toenail would be if it weren't crooked...it was pretty convincing...I finally felt normal. Unfortunately, nail polish lasts much longer when applied to the nail instead of skin so the feeling of normalcy was short lived.

A taste of home

We don't live in San Diego anymore which means that Shamoo and his family are far from our grasp. On Saturday we decided to do the closest thing possible to the "Sea World" experience and go to the national aquarium in Baltimore topped with a dolphin show. The dolphins, as always, were spectacular, probably on loan from San Diego along with the alternate coaching staff who spent most the time trying to sell us on saving the Chesapeake Bay...they even had a video showing us how to pick up trash.

We went to a 4-D Imax film...that's right 4-D. The fourth Dimmension was the added elements of spraying water in our faces and blowing air on our feet and backs. The best part of the film was to listen to all the kids reaction to being sprayed, poked, and winded. At one particular moment a scientist came right to your face and threw up while simultaneously you got sprayed with a mist of water. It felt dirty. The kids cried, laughed, and screamed...and poor Chase came out of the experience wet and alarmed.