Our Casa Lennon is your Casa

The Casa Lennon clan made a trek to the NC Museum of Life and Science earlier this week.  We had Chloe’s company for this outing.  This was probably the first time we have gone that Sophia could genuinely appreciate it. We even broke down and got a family membership. Michele is going to stay home now, and it will be great to have this fantastic facility in her activity repertoire. That, and we won’t have to lean on our friends, the Straffins, for (ahem) access.  All you other RTP-local parents that may want to engage in weekday, daytime activities, reach out to Michele.

Pix from the outing

Link to the Album of picutres

View the pictures as a slideshow

Some Videos from outing

Direct Link to the ladies enjoying some cooling water

Direct Link to Alexander fascinated by plant

We are thankful to celebrate all birthdays, but there is something special about the milestones.

Casa Lennon’s abuela, sometimes know called Juana Antónia Lennon Gutierrez Magro Ibañez Alonso Palacios Barona Ruano García, delighted everyone by turning 70 years young. Much of the family converged on Las Tapas in Old Town Alexandria in what unexpectedly turned out to be a surprise party. More a function of the Lennon clan’s well communicated inability to communicate well.

That said, it was really fun. People came from Florida, North Carolina, New York, and even Maryland to take part. The primary “gift” abuela always wants is the time spent with her family – namely the grandkids. That is what she wants more than anything else. That said, Michael coordinated a gathering of lifetime photos and stories to put together for abuela. I highly recommend viewing the awesome collage that was the product of that effort.

ASIDE: We had the good fortune of being at the Spanish restaurant while Spain was beating Paraguay in the World Cup. (In case you hadn’t heard, SPAIN WON!!!! VIVA ESPANA!!! )

One last thing, we’d like to thank our niece Chloe for snapping so many candid photos.

Pictures from the Celebration

Here is the photo album gallery.

Here you can view it as a slideshow.

For about 6 months, we have been telling Sophia to take her feet off the table. Today, she learned the very hard way why she wasn’t supposed to be doing that. While eating lunch, she put her feet on the table and, you guessed it, kicked it right back. The wooden chair, with the wooden spindles, fell flat on the hard wood floors.

There was the 0.231 second-look of “what- just-happened?” on her face. That was quickly replaced by the floodgate of tears.

Mommy consoled her as much as we could. Sophia was already tired and pretty soon thereafter fell asleep on Mommy. We’ve been putting bags of frozen veggies on the back of her head to try to keep the huge bump on the back of her head from growing. Fingers crossed. Given Daddy’s history with head injuries, we’re obviously nervous.

She seems to be doing pretty well now that she is resting on Mommy in their mutually loved glider chair. I think Mommy and Daddy’s hearts are probably done racing now, too.

Oh, yeah, Alexander is out cold on the kitchen table.
Quick Update: Sophia just had her first ever “Children’s Ibuprofen” as opposed to the previous “Infant’s Ibuprofen”. I know we age, but it just seems like she shouldn’t be there yet. :/