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| Zach on the train at Burke Lake Park |
- We took Zach to Burke Lake Park and met up with Aliana, Nathan, and Evera with specific plans to ride the train, and he had a blast. We rode the carousel too, which he liked this time around, but he obviously enjoyed the train the most. We rode twice!
- Zach's sleeping has been a little disrupted. He's solidly going to bed at 7:45pm now. Daylight Savings left him going to bed later and getting up later. Go figure!
- He's been doing a little more drawing; we bought him some crayons.
- On walks home, he always stops and says goodbye to his friends, and we started gazing down at the W&OD trail from above. It became a ritual, and one evening, we counted 19 bikes.
Walking home - Zach and Mommy had a great time while Daddy went down to West Virginia with his high school friends!
- On Saturday, we went down to Jammin Java to see Grandsons Junior. Zach enjoyed it for about 45 minutes and then announced that he was "all done."
- We visited Katie and Suji on Saturday night, and Katie played guitar for Zach, which he LOVED. Suji said he was mesmerized!
- Great Country Farms was a blast, and we only visited a fraction of their space. Zach loved the wagon ride to the "pumpkin patch," the antique tractors, and the cow train!
- Zach saw Frank's new mountain bike and wanted to go out to "ride" on it for several weeks. That required both me and Frank - one of us to hold him up on the seat and the other to walk the bike.
- Images of buses became the rage this month
- Potty training on the brain this month. We've bought him a potty, and he'll move up to the 2's after Thanksgiving, so it will officially begin.
- We ran into Mo on his last night as a UPS driver. He's retired!
- Leading up to Halloween, we went for some night strolls, and he enjoyed Halloween lights.
- Halloween was a lot of fun. We dressed him up for the second time (first time at Harvest festival), and visited all the neighbors he's met. Barbara said how much she was hoping we'd stop by!
A monkey! - With the time change (darker earlier, so less time to spend outside after daycare) and Zach's illness, he's been enjoying more music. Concert DVDs, Youtube videos of Great Big Sea, etc.
- We picked berries and green beans at Rick's garden plot!
- What a fun time going down on the Mall to the American History Museum with Zach. He loved the transportation exhibit and the Good Humor ice cream truck outside.
- His first cold and a fever that kept him home!
- Visiting Katie and Suji, Zach quickly picked up on Suji's name. A few weekend's later, he met Lucy, Ralph and Chuckie's dog, again. We went to play outside, and he wanted to go "back up the hill to see Lucy." He parroted me over and over again, and "see Lucy" became "Suji."
- He loves to sing, “Thank you, thank you. Thank you, thank you, for our food. For our food. Helps the body grow. Helps the body grow. Big and strong. Big and strong!”
- He is talking to Alexa all the time now.
- One morning we talked about how “independent” he is, and he turned that into “mundo, mundo” and just laughed!
- Date night for Frank's birthday. We tried out Heritage Brewing Co. and went to Four Sisters for Vietnamese.
- A great Ethiopian meal at Enyate. The family was so happy to see Zach, and he won them over again!
- Lots of pumpkin bread - thanks to Brian for his recipe!
- Fish Tacos!
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| IX Art Park in Charlottesville |
- Aliana, Evera, and Nathan. We saw them two weekends in a row, and they're expecting a baby boy in April!
- Katie and Suji - dinner and time outside by their firepit!
- Met up with Emily R. for dinner, and we had such a good time.
- Emily, Grandad, Gamma, and Daddy Bob all visited.
- Dinner with Auntie Em after her trip to Italy was a blast!
- Visit to Charlottesville. A great dinner with Ralph, Chuckie, Christopher, & Mia and Jim and Susan. A nice visit with Sam and Zahra.
- Mary Kay via phone. Monthly check-ins are good!
- Emmy came to babysit!
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| Foggy Gainesville |
- Mentoring advice and calls with Patti and Jeanne
- DRIVE group coaching and kickoff
- Learning about Green Dot and creating a community in support of non-violence
- Definitely not fun stuff, but Anna left SCORE, and I'm so sad to see her go.
- Advisory Council meeting...good bonding with Hugh, Eileen, Ann, and Julie
- Trip to Gainesville, FL for a district meeting. Drove from Jacksonville to Gainesville on two different routes. A good meeting, a walk around Gainesville, dinner at a local restaurant...all interesting
- Listening to Serial's Season 2! Got in four episodes in early November
