Family vacation in Baltimore and Washington, D.C.

Ethan at the National Zoo

Anna, Sofia, and Ethan on the USS Constellation in the Inner Harbor

Ethan and the Washington Family at Mount Vernon in Virginia

The entire family and Anna at the National Mall, taken from Lincoln's Memorial (you know, the Big Man in the Chair...)

We extended our trip to the East coast a few days later than the wedding to allow Anna and the kids to see some of our capital city and surrounding areas. We visited the National Mall and all of its monuments; the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum; the Smithsonian Natural History Museum; Mount Vernon; Alexandria, VA; the Smithsonian National Zoo; and Baltimore's Inner Harbor. Anna may have become "historied out" and the kids secretly asked me a couple of times if they could swim in the Potomac (I told myself no every time!), we all had a good time and some cool things that we hadn't seen before, all made it back in one piece (the kids actually did fairly well on the airplane, though having Ethan strapped into his car seat may have had something to do with that), and I looked forward to going back to work on Thursday, 9/16.

Now, we're counting down the days to our next family vacation to Disney World in April 2011. Ethan, can you please be potty trained by then? Because the fights you are currently putting up for diaper changes are redonculous!