If I put a run in on Tuesday evening, I am well on track with the week. Then push myself on Thursday evening and I'm all set. This week that will be tricky since Irena and the kids will be here, but at least the Tuesday part is done! Feels great. Weather was amazing, nice and fresh.
A nice Monday evening. Nadya had made dinner and we ate early. Nora wanted to be read to over dinner so I read her de Grote Rode Schuur, an alphabet book, a few pages from the kabouterboek and two short stories: Ik will lekker stout and Het Fluitketeltje.
Later we read Dick Bruna's Bloemenboek and Nijntje in het ziekenhuis, the latter per Nora's request. I don't always manage to read to her every day, but we try.
Then we went for a walk to see the new sidewalk -- it was completed a few weeks ago and looks great.
Nora is growing fast and wants to do everything herself: switching on the light, closing her shoes, filling her cup with water. If we by accident do those for her she gets upset and wants us to undo it so she can do it herself.
The best way of getting her to do something is saying: oh, Nora can't do that. She will insist to prove you wrong.
If I said "Ik ben twee en ik zeg..." she would answer "Nee!" Now she is cheeky and says: "Drie!"
It is cute to see that she is also still a baby (as she insists she is sometimes). When we drove back from Secaucus she didn't want to sleep. The solution? We put a blanket over her car seat, blocking her view. She fell asleep in 5 minutes.
This is a short book by the first female Judge on the Supreme Court. It was interesting to read a little bit how things work behind the scenes, and to read more on the Court's history.
I read this book on the flight from DC to San Francisco.
I wrapped up the deck resurfacing yesterday. 
Yesterday evening we visited the Jefferson Memorial and the Martin Luther King Memorial and had a great dinner at Cafe Asia in Rosslyn.
Nora is growing fast and wants to do everything herself: switching on the light, closing her shoes, filling her cup with water. If we by accident do those for her she gets upset and wants us to undo it so she can do it herself. 
The Zanes left on Sunday morning. In the evening we went to the National Mall to see the monuments. 