Brown Bear

My mom made Hal his wonderful "Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See?" quilt. It has all of the animals and the children in it. He also really like playing with his own brown bear and talks up a storm to it!

Friends

Lucky for me Claire (a friend since 6th grade) just moved to DC to do her residency at National Children's. We live down the street from each other and we get to see her about once a month! We love it.

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Typical Hal expression

Hal and his girls

Go ahead Kyle, make fun of the hat. I happen to love it.

My Boys

Hal sleeping with Farrah playing

Like the beach a bit more

Still not feeling it

Hal was less then impressed with the beach, Farrah however loved it

Hal's "California Grandma" and "Oldest-older cousin" (self-named titles) came to visit for a week. Farrah was a fabulous cousin. My favorite thing about them visiting was listening to Farrah talk to Hal---especially when we were in the car. She was so sweet with him, and a great little babysitter when I took a shower or ran across the street to the grocery store. We were quite busy the whole week---we spent a day at Rehoboth/Dewey Beach, DE, a day at Mount Vernon, saw Ramona & Beezus and played at Clemyjontri Park. It would have been perfect if it hadn't been so blasted HOT everyday!

A Triptych

More Visitors

My dad came to town for business and stayed a couple extra days to play with us! We ate out a lot, which is a great thing to do in DC because there are a ton of awesome restaurants (no Chili's for us!). We ate cheap, fresh sushi and Kotobuki, crab cakes at Black Salt, (Kotobuki and Black Salt are both on the same block we live on) fresh fish at the Southwest Waterfront and pizza at Pete's Apizza. We also ventured down to the National Harbor where Hal had an itchy head that we got scratched for him and we visited the Peep's store: M&M's eat your heart out. (Could I have any more links in one post?)

Visitors

Reza's dad, brother and sister all came to DC for the week. When they weren't busy exploring the whole city, they loved playing with Hal. For the record, playing Apples to Apples with Abbas was the highlight of the trip! :) Thanks for coming!

For Candace

Dear FDB,
We miss you. Hal just wanted to say hello! Now go finish that dissertation.

Love,
The Ghazimoradi's