We had yet another rainy weekend here in the Mid Atlantic, but that didn’t stop us from having fun. On Saturday our friends Christine and London and their baby, Maui, came over for dinner. Christine volunteered for DDD with us in Cambodia and she and her husband London moved to DC last year. We were thrilled to meet baby Maui and finally have a chance to catch up with them – it’s been tough to get together with all these babies! After dinner we were playing with the boys in the living room and we realized after a while that Harper had disappeared. We found her in the kitchen where she had pulled her stool (“sfool”) up to the counter and was gnawing on a mango! “I just eating a mango, Mommy!”

A word on Harper’s lack of clothing in…well, pretty much every picture that I’ve taken recently. Harper either loves to be naked, or hates to be dressed. Either way, she is constantly taking her clothes off. Yesterday I went in her room to get her up in the morning and she was sleeping completely naked. No pajamas, no diaper. I’m amazed that she made it through the night with the A/C on! We’re hoping she outgrows this before middle school, or we will all be in trouble.

On Saturday while the kids were napping I got distracted by the mess in Portman’s office and decided to do a little cleaning. I just about peed my pants when I found his “box.” Since I’ve known Portman (over 8 years now), he’s always had what I call his “box.” When he straightens up his office and finds things he’s not sure what to do with, he puts them all in a box and tries to hide it from me. It used to make me crazy, but now I just think it’s funny. I haven’t found a box in a while, but boy did I find one on Saturday:

Included in this box are: a Chinese instant camera belonging to our friend Ryann (in our possession since 2002); 3 or 4 keychains; a broken watch; eye drops that expired in June 2003; 2 CVS Extra-Care cards; dozens of paperclips, twist ties and 3M things; bike lock key to a bike we gave away 2 years ago; 63 cents; 4 Subway Club stamps.

I also found several amazingly outdated pieces of technology. The first is a pocket-size digital camera that we had in Cambodia. I took a photo of it next to Portman’s phone so you can see how ridiculous the LCD is:

The second is a camera for a cell phone that I had in Cambodia. You actually had to attach the camera TO the phone to take pictures – like anyone would bother to do that:

On to better things… on Sunday we took the kids to Udvar-Hazy to look at airplanes. Harper LOVES the museum and has her favorites: the flight-simulator ride and the “yellow air-pain.” After lunch at the McD’s in the museum, we ran around and looked at the airplanes. Portman bought Harper a little $3 toy space shuttle Enterprise, and she immediately ran over to the real space shuttle, placed the toy on the ground next to it and said “he need to be wif his mommy.” It was so sweet!

Harper doesn’t follow rules (like “stay on this side of the bar”) very well: