4 July Weekend Pt. 1: NCMD / MDNC

The pillow fort has become a floating palace. S-Bs have been all up and down the road in the past week or so. Most recently, L and I went to MD and my folks came here (in reverse order, then correct order).

Here Ro finds something new to chomp on. He's been going to town with some drool-a-tron action, so he just may be ready to start cutting teeth.

My dad had to buy a new watch after this monsoon drooling session was over.

There have been countless (i.e., more than two) events going on simultaneously in this end-of-June / beg.-of-July period. We celebrated the birthday of Grandad B (and young M.E.) on the 30th, Grandad S on the 7th, and Rowan SB on the 6th. We look forward to the bday of Gran B later this month. In addition, a number of L's associates celebrated bdays (I'll let her shout out her own shout outs), and we celebrated the one-year anniversary of our discovery of the concept of Rowan. Not to break the conceptual mold or anything, but it's been an amazing year.


We went up to MD for the 4th of July, R's 1st big road trip as a boy (and not a concept/embryo/fetus/prog rock keyboard player). It too 6 hours, and he was basically good the whole way. We were psyched, and had fun in the car.

Here's R and G-G in my folks' place. Behind them is one surprised art restorer (who is, I hope, a good sport). We got to see friends and family that we had not seen for a while as well as brand new family we'd never met before. We also ate a ton of fried chicken. Oh yeah.


Here's furry uncle Bunky, who was an excellent shepherd of babies. He seemed quite protective of R. He's also a dog, which is awesome.











Here, Gran B shows Ro how to survive in the wilderness: eat the flower garden. Just kidding, he didn't really eat the flowers. But my mom did.

Just kidding. Again.















Once we got done eating crabs and greeting old friends (it was good to see you all again), we headed back to NC to put in some time in the old Jumperoo.










Grandad B: "Hey, get off the table, you kitten!"
Audie: "What? Hey, YOU get ON the table!...
and gimme the real estate section. I'm busy flipping property!!"











What did we do next? Find out in Pt 2...


L: I like polka dots!
Me (behind camera): Me too!