Todd has been working a lot - he has a deadline coming up. On Sunday, he was working - but I was heading out of town - so I decided to do something fun with Mercer for the first half of the day 'til Todd & I swapped.... Mercer and I would visit a new playground. We did that, then went out to lunch. It was a nice afternoon; I decided that we should visit new playgrounds every weekend if possible! I would like to make a "passport" or a formalized list (at the least) of the ones here in our city & county... as well as some cool playgrounds that I've seen or heard of. (One of them is near a small local airport/ kids can watch the airplanes take off.)
Can you believe that this place was slated to tear down and re-develop? They charge $20,000 to host an event there!
Mercer had his 2 year old appointment yesterday. The pediatrician was only in the room for a few minutes and she gave him a new name (from "exhausting" as in his 15 and 18 month appointments to "wild man.") Ah. Yes. He is, indeed. We were in the waiting room for about 20 minutes, but in the exam room for over an hour. Trying to corral him in the 8 x 10 room for that period of time was crazy. 
The times that the nurse or the doc was trying to take his temp, measure the circumference of his head, his height, looking in his ears, down his throat, inspecting his various body parts, and giving him an immunization... he had to be restrained. I felt like I was wrestling with him... holding his head in a vice-grip at times... pinning his arms or legs down depending on what the task was. I can't imagine the "torture" it must have been for him. 
I went to Washington DC Sunday afternoon / evening for a speaking gig Monday morning. I had dinner with Todd's cousin, Tina, Sunday night and there was just enough time after speaking to pop into the city to visit the National Building Museum on Monday afternoon. 
I didn't have much time to visit too many of the exhibits, but visiting the building was reason enough to go. It's a beautiful structure built originally as an office for the US Pension Bureau - and provide space to host social and political events in DC. 
I didn't know this until I went and was told by the cute little gray-haired volunteers at the info desk, but it is the site of the presidential inaugural balls each year. They showed me some photos of past events and it is STUNNING when dripping with fabric, candles, flowers, etc. Check out this "virtual tour" link for a glimpse of the magnificent space: http://www.nbm.org/about-us/historic-building/360-degree-tour.html
I didn't have much time to visit too many of the exhibits, but visiting the building was reason enough to go. It's a beautiful structure built originally as an office for the US Pension Bureau - and provide space to host social and political events in DC. 
I didn't know this until I went and was told by the cute little gray-haired volunteers at the info desk, but it is the site of the presidential inaugural balls each year. They showed me some photos of past events and it is STUNNING when dripping with fabric, candles, flowers, etc. Check out this "virtual tour" link for a glimpse of the magnificent space: http://www.nbm.org/about-us/historic-building/360-degree-tour.html Can you believe that this place was slated to tear down and re-develop? They charge $20,000 to host an event there!
My office was having our annual green building conference this week too. I missed part of it while in DC, but got to go the 2nd day and attend some great sessions. It was snowing most of the day Tuesday and Todd had to pick up little guy from daycare because it snowed AGAIN here / schools closed early. This was our 3rd snow... but also the shortest-lived. They played in it for a little while, but Mercer just wasn't up for it this week. Todd was going to build a big snowman, but only got the lower ball rolled before Mercer called it quits. 
He does know "snow" and "snowman" -- rather "nomnan" (there's no S on the beginning and there's an extra N in there!)
Mercer had his 2 year old appointment yesterday. The pediatrician was only in the room for a few minutes and she gave him a new name (from "exhausting" as in his 15 and 18 month appointments to "wild man.") Ah. Yes. He is, indeed. We were in the waiting room for about 20 minutes, but in the exam room for over an hour. Trying to corral him in the 8 x 10 room for that period of time was crazy. 
The times that the nurse or the doc was trying to take his temp, measure the circumference of his head, his height, looking in his ears, down his throat, inspecting his various body parts, and giving him an immunization... he had to be restrained. I felt like I was wrestling with him... holding his head in a vice-grip at times... pinning his arms or legs down depending on what the task was. I can't imagine the "torture" it must have been for him. 
By all accounts, he's extremely healthy. He has had congestion, but there's nothing we can do about it as he won't let us use the nose bulb on him anymore... and he "blows" through his mouth when using a tissue instead of his nose. She said we would just have to deal with boogers! He has some pretty severe eczema, but we talked about controlling it with some natural creams instead of steroid cream. His words are good. His motor skills are good. Problem-solving good. Putting words together in small sentences - good. 
His stats: almost 35" tall, 29 1/2 lbs in weight, and 19 1/2" head circumference. He's close to 75% on everything... a little on the large side of other kiddos who just turned 2.
His stats: almost 35" tall, 29 1/2 lbs in weight, and 19 1/2" head circumference. He's close to 75% on everything... a little on the large side of other kiddos who just turned 2. Enjoy these pictures scattered throughout. Mercer found a big box upstairs full of "bubbles" (packing peanuts). I want to recycle the peanuts, then turn the big box into a play-house for little guy... another day.
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