I'm sitting in the car typing on my portable keyboard on my palm pilot, hoping to upload this to the blog this evening. (ha ha... that was a few days ago) Rose and Eleanor are sleeping in the back of the car and we're parked in the lot of a strip mall. I'm waiting for them to wake up so that I care of some errands. Can you believe that this is the only way that I can get something written?We have had some cool developments this week!
Rose rolled onto her side for the first time - and she loves it! I put her down for a minute and PING she's on her side. Ping? I don't know... that's just the sound I imagine she'd make if she was a cartoon. Sje is also really interested in holding onto things, and in lurching herself into an upright position when she is sitting on your lap.
Eleanor can climb all of a sudden! Miss Slow Poke all of a sudden took off at the park this week. She climbed up a ladder, went down the scary big-kid slide, and climbed up all sorts of wooden terraces. I turned my back for a minute, to check on Rose, and KAPOW Eleanor was up on top of a 3-foot terrace. I seriously thought another mother had helped her up, but no, she repeated it again and again! I wasn't all that surprised when she took a 2-hour nap that afternoon.
What else is Eleanor doing this week? Well, we've had a couple really nice days together. Maybe all the exercise is mellowing her out a bit. Twice we went out for lunch and both times she sat next to me in a "big" chair and ate her bagel happily, leaning over to me to give me sideways hugs. I was so touched, it was like the old Eleanor! She can be so caring and sweet sometimes. We went into the bathroom of the bakery and they had one of those toddler seats where you can strap your kid up in the air while you sit on the toilet. She loves those seats - and I think I love them even more! Whoever invented them is some sort of freakin' genius. Your kid sits up about 3 feet, strapped on to the wall and can't pull the toilet paper, crawl under the stall door, or lick the pee off the floor. Thank you to whoever came up with that. Anyway, we were in there and after I had 'done my business' I left Eleanor in the wall-seat while I changed Rose's diaper. Eleanor, who was gleefull to be up in the air in the wall-seat, started singing this great song about how all three of us fit in the bathroom. She thought it was so funny that we could all fit in one stall - actually, it was pretty hilarious. Then she started singing, to the tune of Row Row Row Your Boat, Mommy is Wonderful, Rose is Wonderful, Eleanor is Wonderful. Jeez, she kills me sometimes.
So, all that happened earlier this week and it took me until now to upload what I'd written. Since then... Cap was off of work Friday and will be off again tomorrow (uh, that would be today... I still haven't gotten this thing uploaded...) so we've been up to our old junketeering. We went to Annapolis yesterday to tour around to look for neat places to live (one of our favorite types of junkets). Instead of our normal touring of Eastport (which we think is just awesome) we decided to venture further away, to Back Creek, and to Bay Ridge. We had lunch at the Wet Dog Cafe, which is in a marina filled with HUGE yachts. They were so big I actually had trouble processing the scale of them. I'm so used to looking at Cap's little 12-footer, these things were so big that they had 12-foot zodiacs and dinghys strapped to their bows making the little boats look like life preservers. After downing a greasy tuna melt and a Dr. Pepper in a can, and after chatting with some local ladies about living in the area (and getting way more information than I really wanted) we set off to explore Bay Ridge.
Bay Ridge is kind of cool... I think. There are lots of little old houses - like cottages - and then there are these enormous new constructions. Needless to say, I liked the little old ones much better. I liked it because it is a "community" with a pool and a little marina and a club house - but it isn't like these grotesque new developments that are chock-a-block all over Maryland (at least the Maryland that I've seen). It's an old old neighborhood out on this little peninsula in the Bay. Only, we didn't know that... and we were completely shocked and delighted when the little road we were driving along opened up onto the Bay! It was huge! And wild! The water was really rough and a dark charcoal color with whitecaps all over the place. The road turned so that we were driving right next to the water - about 10 feet from the water which was splashing up along the low seawall next to us. Cap rolled down his window because it was all very exciting to see the water spitting up like little geysers next to the car and all of a sudden... while we were driving... the Bay lept up INTO our car and INTO Cap's mouth! Holy crap, it was so funny - Cap's face and shoulder were soaked and Eleanor's window was dripping with Bay drops. Eleanor wanted to do it "again and again!" It was like a water-park ride! Twenty minutes later as we were driving on the highway, still recovering from the hilarity of the whole thing, Cap said - "I can still taste the Bay in my mouth! It's salty!" Maybe you had to be there... but, I'll always remember our junket to Bay Ridge as the day the Bay jumped into Cap's mouth.
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