Our Tales of Two Cities: A Good Week.

Last week was great! Lots of wonderful things happened....

It was Valentine's Day and Nick was especially sweet to his girls this year! Waverly took a nice long morning nap so I got a little R&R and after I got out of the shower, I saw my Valentine surprise!! Then I went into Waverly's room to get her out of her crib and she got a surprise from Daddy too! He had been in and out during his lunch hour like cupid!

That evening we went to Valentine's Day dinner as a family. Nick and I really enjoy oysters over a glass of wine and that's just what we got at Hank's Oyster Bar in Old Town Alexandria. Waverly was such a good baby and I loved having her on our date...we even got home before her bedtime!

reading her valentine from Daddy

sitting up and looking at her very first valentine!

my valentine surprise :)

Waverly had lots of valentines!

yumm....everything goes in her mouth

part of my valentine to Nick...mixed 6 pack!

lobster risotto

my valentines...she's smiling at Daddy!

homemade valentines are the best!

Last week, "Our Tales of Two Cities" husbands both turned the big 3-0! Matt turned 30 on the 13th and Nick on the 17th! Happy Birthday guys...we love you!

30 year old swartz

For Nick's 30th, I made reservations for a bunch of our friends at one of his favorite DC restaruants, Matchbox, in Chinatown. They are known for their sliders that are PILED with fried onion strings...you can get 3, 6 or 9. We had a table for 13 in our own little area of the restaurant and it was so much fun...good food, good drinks, and great friends! Then we headed to a bar next door called Redline...an upscale sports bar with draft towers at the table. It turned into a dance club late night and the DJ had some great 90's and early 00's playlists. Needless to say we partied like we weren't 30 and felt 30 the next day.

Thanks again to Nana & Granddaddy for babysitting Waverly so that we could go out and celebrate!

Lastly, Waverly started sitting up!! She's been getting the hang of it for the past month, but started sitting up all by herself for a long time at the end of the week. It's so funny to sit her on the floor and look over at this mini person just hanging out. She's loving her new point of view. She has also started getting on all 4's into a crawling position and rocking and scooting backwards! It's only a matter of time before she starts crawling...my non-stop baby is about get really mobile! uh oh!! :)