Woo-hoo! Tony read my email on his show yesterday. It wasn’t a particularly clever or witty email, not even worth repeating here, but Gary or Nigel or whoever screens the emails must’ve thought it was worth reading.
On a completely unrelated note: Very cool.
Today Mommy took me to see the butterflies at Brookside Gardens. First, we met with a couple of other moms and their babies and had a picnic under a shady tree. That was a lot of fun. Then we went over to the butterfly exhibit where we went into this special room where there were lots of butterflies flying all over the place! It was really neat. After the butterflies, we walked through the rose garden with lots of pretty flowers.
A fitting update on one of my posts from yesterday:
Saints Receiver Joe Horn Visits Refugees
Sports may seem trivial in times like these, but they provide a morale boost for many people. Those who still think football games shouldn’t be held need not watch them. But in the absense of an enemy against we can rally against, we can at least rally behind our sports teams.
This summer has sucked. It’s been so incredibly hot, and sticky, and blech the whole time that I haven’t wanted to go out with Sammy hardly at all. We’ve taken very few walks, and basically I’ve had a lot of cabin fever trying to keep him entertained all summer long.
Fortunately, we’ve actually had some brilliant weather in the past few weeks. In late August, I took Sam up to my mom’s house in NJ and we spent a gorgeous week pretty much in the swimming pool. And this weekend has been beautiful so far, too. I was able to take Sam out for walks last week, and today I had him in the stroller outside while I was doing a little gardening in front of our house.
Onto another topic…
If you saw PTI on Friday, then you saw the letter from the woman who pretty much thought that life (well, sports specifically, but life in general) should stop until all the chaos brought on by Hurricane Katrina has been addressed and all the people evacuated and so on and so forth. Well, I disagree. What has happened in New Orleans and the rest of the gulf coast is tragic, life in the rest of the country cannot come to a standstill because of it. After all, what can most of the rest of the country do? Contribute money. Okay, that really is needed, but that takes, what, 10 minutes? Then what? It’s not like every able-bodied man and woman can go down to help deliver supplies, rebuild houses or pluck people from rooftops. There are volunteers and uniformed personnel doing so, but there is not the capacity in that region for millions upon millions of volunteers.
True, life will never be the same for the hundreds of thousands of people in the affected areas. But the fabric of our society, from commerce to culture to, yes, even athletics, cannot simply stop and mourn. There is no enemy to rally against as was the case in 2001. The engines of our economy must continue to run if we are to help those in need in the South.
The exception to this would be the athletics (and other aspects of life) in the states that have been affected, such as at LSU and Ole Miss. After all, the student bodies at those schools have more to worry about than their football teams (or even their academics). But in places where the connections to the hurricane are a little more tenuous, life should continue on as before, but keeping the residents of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama in our minds and hearts.
It was a very hot summer all summer long, but this weekend the weather has been really nice. Today, Mommy took me outside and I watched as she did some gardening in front of our house. She put in pretty flowers.
Today Mommy took me to a new class: Yoga for mommies & babies. Mommy is doing a lot of that kind of stuff with me this fall.
After yoga class, we met with Daddy for lunch at Mayorga.
This morning Mommy and Grandma took me to breakfast at Denny’s. There we met up with one of Mommy’s teachers from when she was in high school, Mrs. Eng. Mrs. Eng was really nice and said I was cute!
Then we went back home to Maryland and I got to see Daddy again! It was a long drive back to my house, and I fussed part of the way, but it is good to be home again.
This morning we went to the children’s bookstore in the town where Grandma Lolo lives and listened to story time. One of the books was about a silly rabbit that kept jumping into different colored paint cans and turning him all sorts of silly colors!
Later, Mommy and I went swimming again. It was a lot of fun splashing in the water.
Then tonight we went back to that nice restaurant that Mommy and Grandma took me to for lunch yesterday, except that this time we went for dinner with all the ladies from Grandma’s office. One of them is retiring and this was a farewell dinner for her.
We had a busy day today. We went out to a nice restaurant for lunch. I was fussy, but so long as Mommy and Grandmommy held me and paid complete and constant attention to me, I was good. When we got home again, Mommy tricked me into taking a nap. When I realized I had been taking a nap, I was very upset! But after my nap, Mommy took me into the pool again. She put me in one side of a floaty thingy while she was in the other side holding me. Then she pushed me around the pool. It was a lot of fun!
