Three-day weekend!

My parents and my youngest three siblings are at Superfresh right now, picking up lunchy items. We’ve spent last night and today passing the baby around and taking pictures. Grandpa and Grandma seem in their element, and Owen’s getting over his stranger-danger freakouts again. He napped for shit yesterday and was therefore cranky and easily spooked, but he seems to be doing better today. My parents got to witness his peculiar eating habits, in which he screams like a banshee if you try to burp him, and gulps down his food as if it were his last meal.

Also last night we got some ice cream at Baskin-Robbins — there isn’t a Tastee-Freeze for hundreds of miles in this state — and Iain and I got to watch The Incredibles after we put the baby to bed. What a good movie. I love Pixar flicks.

Today we’re going to take a stab at heading out to Gunpowder State Park. I’m praying that the beautiful weather and long weekend doesn’t give everybody else and their brother the same idea. I thought it’d be nice for Owen to go hiking again, and to show my family a side of Baltimore that involves more than the Ikea Multi-Plexi-Hyper-Consumer Gigaplex over in White Marsh. Wish us luck.

May 29, 2005 | Filed Under daily grind