A fun walk to Starbucks. A fun birthday party for Dora at Wal-Mart. A fun trip to the zoo. And fun at the park.

I went for a mountain bike ride with a couple of ladies from work on Wednesday night.  I wasn’t exactly sure what Andy and Belén did with their mommy-free time that night until I (along with our sisters and parents) received the following email from Andy Thursday morning. ————————————————————- Belén and I made a trip [...]

One night last week when we were out and about, we all found ourselves a little bit hungry so we stopped at a local Mexican restaurant. Belén was past her bedtime and restless which led to her running like a crazy woman around said restaurant (yes, we were those parents!) I finally caught her and attempted to entertain her by taking pictures of “daddy” with my iPhone. She actually took this picture.

Belén and I cheered him on from my dad’s boat as Andy made his way around the west end of the reservoir. We are very proud of the boat he has rebuilt and I believe this takes us one step closer to a grand sailing adventure in the future. Details TBD.

Was I too horrible or do you agree this was a good opportunity to teach a very important concept involving safety? Was it okay to allow her to hurt herself in this contained environment for the sake of learning? Obviously I felt like it was a perfect situation (assuming she learned the lesson) but I understand others might not agree with that.

I guess this answers the question of what happens when two Computer Science majors get married.

Both Belén and I can always count on you. We love you intensely! Thank you for all you do!

I know many of you are anxious to hear all about the 50K race and our trip to California. I hate to disappoint, but this is the first night since before I left for Toronto three weeks ago that Andy and I have sat down and had dinner together alone.

Each day he asked me to send lots of pictures and tell him how Belén was doing, but after awhile it felt like I was rubbing salt in the wounds. This past Tuesday night over Office Communicator, I told him that Belén had just said, “meow.” (Yes, she is really into animals, all because of Peek-a-boo Barn.) Andy’s response was, “I am going to walk in the door on Friday and she is going to say, ‘Dad, where the hell have you been?”

I went with it and ten minutes later found myself walking with Andy hand-in-hand into Anthropologie. He turned to me and said I had $200 to spend. Gasp. Besides an evening with my husband, I cannot think of a better, more thoughtful, prove-to-me-you-pay-attention-to-what-I-like gift! On top of that, he was even willing to walk through the entire store with me while I collected things to try on and then sat in the man chair outside of the dressing room offering his opinions when asked. He was very patient, playing on his Droid while I tried on numerous combinations of clothing. It was really unbelievable!