Bike Ride

Before we moved from Philly, a neighbor gave us a child bike seat that they said they weren't going to use. Before we moved to Memphis, I mounted it on my bike (regretfully I had to get rid of the milk carton basket that was on the back of my bike) and thought that it would be nice to try it out once we settled in. Little did I know that the weather in Memphis would not cooperate with record heat, and we really haven't left the apartment much to walk down the street, let alone ride a bike.

So today, a cold front was approaching, so we tried it out. CMB was rather nonchalant about the entire ordeal. He wasn't excited to be riding, but he wasn't upset. We might ride to the zoo tomorrow, we'll see how we're feeling. Anyway, here he is with his new cool helmet...

License to Kill

Well, in the spirit of the possible demise of Mr Bond. I was going to bring up my own double-0 status.


This is my ID from Penn. Aside from many of the other names, numbers, and identifiers, is the number "00" which represents the number of duplicates you had to make. In my case, 00, means that I never had to make a duplicate (or I lost a hundred, I guess). So for 5 years, I was able to hold on to the same ID (I saw at least one individual with double digits), and in the end I was declaring this my 'double-0 status,' which gave me the license to kill. Which I took advantage of by shouting new lab members with my fully automatic Nerf dart gun...

Staying in shape

Trying to stay in shape is hard with a baby and the fact that it's always over 100 degrees outside. So, I've had to improvise by lifting things around the house...

The word of the day is: HOT

So we have pretty much moved in here in Memphis. It's been tough, trying to cram all of our junk into a smaller 2 BR apartment, but I'm hoping it will help prevent us from hoarding so much crap in the future. And maybe, I'll actually throw out some things we don't need. On the plus side, our new kitchen is really open to the Family Room/Dining Area, so I was finally able to hang my pot rack again. That helped open up more space in the cabinets, and I love the aesthetics of a pot rack.

It has been crazy hot since we've moved into Memphis (it might be normal for them). I think that every day that we've been here, the temperature has been well into the 90s with a heat index in the 105-113 range. So we've mostly stayed in air conditioned areas or by hanging out in the pool, which we've taken CMB to almost everyday that we've been in town. The good thing is, we've gone enough that he is not afraid of the water. The bad thing is, he's not afraid of the water. We believe that he thinks he can swim. But as long as we're with him, he has a blast.

After hunting through some of storage, we have now accounted for all of CMB's toys, which he likes to bury himself in...