Mr. Stengel Goes to Washington

Back in mid-October, I participated in the Breast Cancer 3-Day walk in Washington, D.C.  The walk fell over my Grandpa (aka Pa) and Grandma's birthdays, so we asked Pa if he would like to join us and celebrate his 90th birthday in the nation's capital. 
We are so glad he said yes!

 

The walk was amazing, as usual (a big thank you/shout out to all my donors!!), but I actually had more fun exploring the museums with these three guys:

 

We all had our favorite things.  Pa's was the the Air and Space Museum 

(big surprise there :).

 James loved running around in the National Mall

 But in the Air and Space Museum, he found something he liked even more.  

Any guesses to what it was?

 Sputnik! 
As soon as we walked into the museum, he started yelling "Ga!Ga!Ga!" (his word for ball) and pointing up :)

 I liked the First Ladies exhibit in the American History Museum and the National Galleries of Art, although I'm not sure we'll be allowed back in after Pa touched a painting by Monet (and got reprimanded by the security guard, to which Pa muttered under his breath that he highly doubted it was an original) and Matthew asked a different guard if anything had ever been stolen from there.  I'm sure our pictures now reside at the front desk under the "No Admittance" list.

 Matthew liked running around with James and the new Star Spangled Banner exhibit

(he lived in DC for a month a couple of years ago, so he had seen most of the museums already).

 Despite the loooong car ride (and the debates about which route to take), we all had a great time.

Long overdue update

Things have been a bit busy since we last spoke.  We went to Washington DC for the Breast Cancer 3-Day Walk, celebrated Halloween, celebrated Aunt Jill's wedding, and just got back from celebrating Thanksgiving in Southern Indiana (the hard drive on our computer also crashed, which helped contribute to the lack of posts around here lately).

We also got to see more of this little one, baby numero dos:

(please forgive the poor quality of the pictures)

I had my 20 week ultrasound on 11/16.  Everything looked perfect!  Little baby even posed for us, sticking out his/her elbows and putting his/her hands behind his/her head.  And if you couldn't tell from that last statement, we also successfully did not find out the sex of the baby.

Matthew wasn't able to get off work for the appointment, but he did get to see the little one on a dvd that the ultrasound tech recorded.  We are very thankful that the little babe is right on track development-wise.  10 fingers and 10 toes!

Thanks to Uncle Matt for babysitting James during my appointment and congratulations on changing your first diaper.  As much as I tried to talk him into it beforehand, James did not go #2 while Uncle Matt was watching him. :)