Sleeping Beauty

This posting was not to highlight the picture above, but to mark an important milestone. I remember seeing people who charted their baby's wake/sleep cycle. I found that facinating, but we didn't have the patience to develop a chart of our own. However, if we had, it would show that for the past three nights Anja has had a real nights sleep. A full seven hours, from 10pm to 5am. The first night we woke and looked at each other in disbelief and said, is it really 5am? The conversation went something like this...."Did you get up with her during the night?" "No" "Did you?" Now we are carefully trying to recreate this successful bedtime routine.

The picture above is from our weekend visit to Quiet Waters Park in Anne Arundel County Maryland. With the dog and the baby we are focusing on local outings for a while. The park was great, with miles of trails and, one of the highlights of our trip, a dog beach. Hence the scruffy look of Pip in this picture.

The other highlight was the snowball stand right outside the entrance to the park. If you are not from Maryland you would not understand the great joy of a snowball in the summer. I say this, because I have learned that this truly is a Maryland thing. If you don't know what a snowball is (not italian ice or those little cones of ice you can get at an amusement park) look at this website-http://www.citypaper.com/bob/story.asp?id=8153. Like the author I thought snowballs were universal, but when we moved to DC and then Virginia I was sad to learn this is not the case.