Claire, Ray and I went to our first National's game - and Claire's first-of-hopefully-many MLB games for Mother's Day! It was a little chilly and drizzly, but not too bad. The new stadium is beautiful! We got free hats with pink W's on them. We had a great time.
Oddly enough, you can go to a Nats game and not pay for parking - which was weird to us after paying through the nose for parking at the few Red Sox games we went to in Boston! We can park at RFK and the Nats have a ton of tour busses waiting to shuttle people over to the Nats stadium. Works out really well.
We have tickets for 2 more games this summer - both are also Sunday afternoon games, to try to work with Claire's schedule, of course. Today worked out pretty well, we were able to get Claire down for a nap a little early. We made it to the top of the 9th, at which time the Nats were down 1 run (thanks to a relief pitcher who blew their lead in the 8th inning), it was starting to rain for real and Claire was on the edge of Melt-down-town. Pretty clear our karma was turning on us and it was time to call it a day.
After breaksfast Claire and Ray went to the park. Julia and Rosa went running and met them at the park for awhile. Claire's napping right now and later on cousin Richard's coming over to eat dinner! If Rosa's in the moood we may hit the dog park later, I doubt Julia's lame run wore her out.
Claire, Ray and I went to our first National's game - and Claire's first-of-hopefully-many MLB games for Mother's Day! It was a little chilly and drizzly, but not too bad. The new stadium is beautiful! We got free hats with pink W's on them. We had a great time. 
Claire got to see elephants swimming, and a lion sleeping, giraffes and ostrich. And that was pretty much it - did I mention it's a lot of walking at this zoo, with hills?
Claire and Rosa both have spring fever (as do Ray and I, but we have to work...), so its nearly impossible to get them inside after a good day of playground and walks. Claire's figured out how to climb the first BIG step going to the slide at the playground, so now every step in the entire world is fair game. Over and over and over and over again. Last night she was tired of walking so she just laid out in the grass for awhile, playing with Ray's Nationals hat (they finally won another game last night!). And after going running with Mommy Claire needed to drink from the big girl's cup...and at some point dropped it, but was very nice and picked up all the ice cubes and put them back in the cup for me. Yum, thanks sweetie.
