Chapter 3 - Moving Into Leafville

Alright. It's been a while, but what can I say; we've been busy.

Rather than relive everything, lets just synopsize. We live in Maryland, about 3 miles outside DC. I work at National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda. Melissa's not popped-out the bambina yet, but will very soon (I'm guessing next week, around the time our household goods are being delivered). She looks like same old little Melissa, except this version appears to have just swallowed a 6 lb watermelon. Whole.

Our new house has a lot of nice features. For example: a laundry shoot. We haven't used it for laundry much, (although I keep asking Melissa to let me drop Ella down it), but we've found that you can open it and yell down it to beckon the person in the kitchen.

It also has leaves. Lots and lots of leaves. For perspective, when a leaf falls in the forest and no one's looking, apparently it's magically transported to our front yard. And it brings all of its little leaf brothers and sisters. And cousins. And second cousins.

Anyway, there's a lot of leaves here.

So I bought a leaf blower, and went about doing that which leaves require: blowing. As expected, leaves + leaf blower + [almost] 3 year old = awesomeness.



- pac