The Redskins

Uncle Hugh bought Archer an Washington Redskins outfit before he was born. Finally, 2 years later, Archer can finally fit into his gear. Below are some pictures of our Redskins fan.

Airplanes

Archer's current favorite sign language word is airplane. He thinks any motor sound might be an airplane so he does the sign and makes a motor sound with his mouth. Yesterday, while David studied, Archer and I took a trip to the National Air and Space museum. I wish I could have done the flight simulators, but they wouldn't allow a 16month old to accompany me. Next time I will become a fighter pilot.

Here is how you say airplane in ASL:

Here was one of Archer's favorite planes - the Polar Star. It has skis to land on the snow. This plane took some explorer to Antarctica.

We had lunch on the Mall. Archer is looking at a plane up in the sky.

An Old Fashioned Sort of Day

Our electricity bill was through the roof for the past month, so I decided to try something new. Laundry went outside on a line instead of the dryer and we turned off the air and are using fans.
(We are just trying this for the day and will see how long we last).

I hope the neighbors don't mind the decor.

Archer finds his own air conditioning.

Diaper Helper

It has been hard for me to post and work mostly because there doesn't seem to be much to post about...let's see, here are the main things going on in Archer's life these days:

1. Archer still has a fit when I drop him off for daycare, but he is making progress and interacting more with the 3 other children there.

2. He got bitten by a little girl on the playground on Saturday. That was a little traumatic for David and myself.

3. We are having fun making forts out of furniture, playing with the fountains at the park, and sharing chores (see below), but it is kind of sad we can't go on big adventures during the week anymore and blog about them. I am determined to find the interesting amidst the seemingly mundane though!

I still think he gets more and more adorable by the second. :)

Squam Pictures

Bumpson and mom took so many incredible pictures of Archer at Squam this year. Here are a few of the 800 (not kidding) they took.

Time to Play

The first day of work was a-ok. I think it will get easier to leave him as time goes on (or at least everyone keeps telling me that). My favorite part of the day was picking Archer up and going to the park. I think we will keep up this schedule of going to play in the water as long as it remains 90 degrees or above.

Charleston

The second part of the week was a great kind of busy. We headed down to Richmond on Wednesday afternoon after the emergency room visit.

Thursday around 2pm we left for Charleston to go to Kate Osborne's wedding. Things really looked up as soon as we checked in to the Meeting Street Inn. Archer's face was healing, the beach was calling us and we were happy to have a few days together before school, work and daycare resumed. Plus, Dad got some great bonding time with Archer since I was in the wedding.

My favorite times as a family were when we could hit the beach. Archer's favorite time was when he was drinking vanilla milkshakes and hanging out with his best girls. He was sort of embarrassed when I dressed him up in feminine clothing for the wedding. One of David's friends asked how old our daughter was. Oh well, I thought he looked cute. It was a wonderful ending to a wonderful summer.

The wedding was beautiful and Kate Osborne Adams was glowing. We really had the best time catching up with all of our friends. I wish we could do it again!

Daddy and Archer apres swimming.

Sunbathing...

Archer is pretending he is on the beaches in the south of France.

A few of Archer's doting Aunties (he loved the attention)

Hanging out before the wedding in his boy dress.

Do we have time for 18?

Archer made good friends with the Osborne's dog, Tuck.