- Mostly trips to Sugarland Run where Zach and Frank have biked and I meet them to walk/run
- Sigga said, "This is the most active family I know."
- We would go out in our super-hero costumes. He'd bike as the Flash and I'd roller blade in my Wonder Woman shirt, cape, and black spandex. I found a parking garage that was great if it was hot or a little wet!
- The fountain at our first roller blading/biking office park "near Mommy's doctor's office."
- Running into his school friends (Niko, Kathryn, Stella & Hopie) at Lake Anne, generally making friends - Elliott and Bear
- Music from the song book and played Eye of the Tiger, Born in the USA, Don’t Stop Believin’ and Livin on a Prayer. He likes Eye of the Tiger and Livin' on a Prayer best
- Drawing with help from Youtube (zebra, penguin)
- Summer Camp on ABC Mouse; Week 1 was South America (sloth video!)
- Milkshakes and kiddie ice cream sundaes. I bring my own nuts because they don't offer that as a topping! :)
- One day Zach thought we should dress "ridculously," so he wore orange on orange and me pink on pink.
- Movies: Frozen 2 and we watched Lindsey Lohan's The Parent Trap and Zach enjoyed it! Concept of twins came up. He wants one when he's "born again."
- Lego challenge = Lego pizza and Lego track for his Blaze Monster Truck
- The biking (bubbles and snacks) and up to 11.5 miles!
- Visits with Grandad
- Nature at the S-turns park nearby. They bike and race, sit on the rock, check out high water, see turtles and fish, play hide and seek, and Zach loves to play peek-a-boo with the fishers
- Lovin' the bubble bath Auntie Em got him
- We played baseball golf. We used tricycle as golf cart and took T-ball around to different locales like golf holes!
- Ticks! Yikes!
- Birthday parties galore! The week of June 8, it was Cora (6/8), Zahra (6/9), Kathryn (6/11), and Hance (6/15); We brought our own cupcakes to Cora's birthday and went to Kathryn's, which was totally fun for Zach but a little too crazy.
- Water play. He loves it.
- Chicken on a Motorcycle has become a fave Story Pirates episode
- He can tell Alexa to play his songs on repeat :(
- Balloon badminton
- PJ Masks undies
- Zach is really great about sitting at the table and eating with us. He loved my rhubarb refresher!
- Joke book. Our fave: Why was 6 afraid of 7? B/c 7 - 8 - 9. :)
- We're learning some past tense (fall - fell, take - took, etc.)
- STOP
- He can spell everything he sees with very few mistakes.
- I told Zach one day that Peso was proud of him while we worked on learning path, and he said, "Mommy, he's just a toy."
- Zach realized that his book, Dog on a Digger, did not have words, and he found that fascinating. I then introduced the books Journey & Return (gifts from Zahra's grandmother) to him, and he's loved them.
- Books: Urgency Emergency, Chloe Zoe books, Black Panther and long Spider Man book that we read over multiple reading sessions, Journey & Return, Serena Williams book
- It's going fine. He struggles with the 8:30pm-6:30am schedule, but mostly does pretty well and is working toward sleeping at those times. He mostly gets 9-9.5 hours/night max, and once in a pretty blue month he'll sleep for 10 hours.
- He does a pretty great job of quiet time. He gets a 1.5 hour nap, and we get about 2 hours of quiet time. Pretty remarkable, actually.
Turning off his shows, washing his hands, and taking showers
Good Food
- Ongoing: scones from Great Harvest
- Kabobi by the Helmand dinner was yummy!
- Cultures from Potomac Vegetable Farm
- Birthday dinner on a beautiful Saturday one month early on June 13. Sat outside with Auntie Em. Delightful.
- Garlic scape pesto with asparagus and with zucchini
- Peanut butter: pb cookies, smoothies with banana. Yum!
- Red chile pork from Territory and many pork sandwiches with cultures and cherries and baked crackers and cheesy chips.
- Auntie Em's amazing waffles and sourdough discard blueberry and lemon curd muffins
- Cherries! Zach has learned to eat around the pits. He said, "Mommy taught me!"
- From the website Auntie's Em shared (https://www.aicr.org/cancer-prevention/recipes/), I made the rhubarb refresher.
- Almost daily breakfast calls with Gamma and Daddy Bob
- Kathleen
- Katie & Suji
- Mary Kay, Kathleen, and Kate happy hour on Zoom
- Emily R.
- Greer
- Early birthday dinner with Auntie Em
- Hiking - I went out hiking one more beautiful Sunday to Buzzard Rocks and beyond. I pack up coffee and cereal in a jar and eat it on my way out or when I arrive at the trail head. I love soggy Cheerios! Lost a water bottle on this hike.
- Unlocking Us episodes!
- Always, walks and runs before surgery and walking walking walking after surgery. In fact, I joined Auntie Em on a virtual mission to "hike" the Camino de Santiago is Spain. I love the movie, The Way, and now I'm adding mileage daily and getting postcards that teach me a bit about my journey!
- Zumba on Zoom pre-surgery - so great
- AMP - great call with Erick, Joe, and Ashanti. Love those guys!
- Black Lives Matter has led me to add important black voices to my Instagram; I started a 21-day challenge (https://www.eddiemoorejr.com/21daychallenge) and have been listening to the podcast, "It's Been a Minute," watching "Black-ish," and watching/listening to "The Next Question" series. Ordered Stamped and I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
- Surgery: I thought I'd go in for a nice outpatient surgery and be home on Monday night. Oh, no. My bladder is "slow to wake," so they admitted me to the hospital overnight, and the bladder had still not awakened by Tuesday morning. (Makes sense, I now remember this happened with my C-section. :() Also, as bad luck would have it, the cell service for my phone and Frank's were down on Monday night, and I couldn't talk to him. I did get Emily on the phone thanks to the nurses! On Tuesday, they put a catheter in and sent me home for two days. Catheter came out on Thursday. Yay. Luckily, I tolerate pain well, so did not take pain meds for long. The gas from anesthesia stayed in my body for a full seven days. That was more uncomfortable than painful, but I thought I'd be "good as new" in two days. Ha! Into week two I was still feeling tired and taking care of myself and Zach part-time was all I could manage. Thanks to Gamma and Daddy Bob for hosting Zach for 4 days!
- New podcasts galore: Life Kit, It's Been a Minute, Nutrition Diva
- Started watching Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist and the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
- Binge watched Little Fires Everywhere
- Movies: watched part of Dirty Dancing and Princess Bride
- Read Paper Towns, The Glass Hotel, Summer of '69
- Grateful for: Though my surgery was hard and not what I expected, I am grateful that I am having to slow down and rest my body. I love my walks, but they are less intense than my exercise regime before, and I think that's a good break at the least. Also, my body is changed. This was a big deal, and I didn't really realize it. I may actually cut back on alcohol as is advised for the kinds of cancers I'm predisposed to and that are impacted by the estrogen I'm taking. That would be good.
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