Boston/DC Babymoon

Before this crazy last semester begins and the baby comes to busy our lives, we decided to take a Babymoon. For those of you who have never heard this term before, it is like a Honeymoon; one last hoorah before reality and responsibility hit you.

It was a pretty fast getaway, but oh so needed! We began by driving to Boston with Ben, Tanelle and the kids. We camped near Boston for a couple of nights taking a boat into the harbor. Boston was such a pretty and clean city. We had always heard that you won't want to live in New York City after visiting Boston and sad to say, but it is true! The city is so nice with the old architecture and history but without the dirty city streets. After Boston, Der and I split from the group and drove back towards home where we made a quick IKEA stop for baby furniture (nursery-area pics to come), a romantic meal at Olive Garden (thanks to the gift card from Malia) and a quiet evening of some quick sleep before the early morning to catch our bus to Washington, DC. We spent the next day and a half in DC where we saw nearly all that we wanted to. We saw the White House, Capitol, National Archives (Constitution, Bill of Rights, Declaration, etc), Washington and Lincoln monuments, Ford's Theatre where Lincoln was assassinated, Arlington National Cemetery (tomb of the unknown soldiers and JFK's grave), many national government buildings and the Holocaust and American History museums. As we were at the Cemetery, we saw CNN, TV news cameras and realized that it was setting up for Ted Kennedy's funeral on saturday... pretty cool (not that he died, but that we were at the Cemetery just days before his funeral).

Anyway, although our trip was quick, we really enjoyed it and each other's company after such a busy working summer. Der has been working like a true New Yorker with a schedule of seven to seven every day. So this was a much needed break. View our slideshows for all the pics of our adventure.

Make a Smilebox photobook

Make a Smilebox photobook

New York City summer fun

New York City is a fun place to be in the summer. Here are a couple of things that we love about it. Summer in New York City means:

The water in the parks are turned on.

Free Movies all over the city. This first picture is of Apollo 13 on the deck of the U.S.S. Intrepid.

Summer fun specifically in our neighborhood means playing dominoes on the sidewalk, late night poker parties, dominican ice (which has become a favorite treat of ours) and bringing out the lawn chairs:

The Girl.

Baby girl Anderson just had her sixth, yes sixth ultrasound on Friday. And yes, she is still a girl, whew! We always thought it was a little weird to put ultrasound pictures on the blog, but here we are putting them up and proud of it. Plus, these are mostly for the grandmas and anyone else interested. If you can't make it out; this is a close up of her face. She is facing the camera with her forehead on the right and her mouth is about in the center of the photo.

Derek was able to come to this appointment with me. It was so fun to see his reaction to seeing the baby on the screen. And even more exciting, as the tech was taking this picture, our little girl was opening and closing her eyes and even yawned! That was really fun to actually get to see her moving around. Anyway, everything is still going smoothly. She is now 3 lbs 3 oz and growing well! She has been moving a whole lot and in just this past week, her movements have been a lot more defined. We can almost make out body parts when she moves! (Derek: "She is definitely going to be a black belt in karate when she grows up.")

As per your request...

Belly pics!

This is a picture of me at 18 weeks

and a picture now at 27 weeks

Here's another pic we have of Carson lying on my belly, just ignore my face...I wasn't ready for the pic.