Six Years

Sunday Joe and I watched our six year anniversary saunter on by as we spent our day entertaining a toddler and learning how to keep a two-and-a-half week old baby happy. At one point we were in the bathroom getting ready for naps and Daniel was running around being his usual raucous self and I had a temporary moment of being overwhelmed by a house of xy chromosomes and underwhelmed by the day's level of romance and commemoration of the significance of the date, and I couldn't help but exclaim, "This is not what I imagined six years ago!" Daniel looked up at me in surprise as if to say, "Well I didn't get here by accident..." and I couldn't help but laugh. Nope, I wouldn't change any of it.

We ended up going to Lake Johnson to feed the ducks. We drove both the truck and the Jeep because Daniel had been asking to ride in "Daddy's tan truck" for several days. On the way we stopped for bagels and had a nice little picnic breakfast at the lake. In my entire time of living in Raleigh and visiting Lake Johnson, I have never seen the ducks so hungry or demanding. At one point, we were totally surrounded by ducks and geese and poor little Daniel who came about eye to beak with the tallest of the geese was nearly terrorized by the squawking and stalking. We retreated to a picnic table where Daniel launched entire slices of bread at a time. Finally, Daniel and Joe went on the offensive and ran at the fowl creatures scattering them in every direction.

The past two weeks I've been fighting my inner demons - you know the ones. They scream "We want to go to the beeaach! NOW!" They only get louder when everyone you know seems to be taking trips themselves and you are grounded in the city because you literally have someone attached to your side (read boob) 24-7 who probably wouldn't enjoy the long ride, wind and heat. We will wait until the end of the summer and assess our sanity level and travelability. We partly quelled those inner yawpings with a trip to our community pool yesterday. Matthew slept in the carrier in the shade the whole time while we ruled the kiddie pool and took turns watching the baby and playing with Daniel in the big pool. And we had Bojangles. That was lovely.