As we await for the arrival baby girl, James and I are having ourselves a fun little American experience. It is nice to be in the USA and take advantage of all the things living here has to offer. Sometimes I feel a little guilty that James, who has never lived in the USA, is being deprived of the great American childhood. I think in the end he will be happy for his childhood overseas. I just hope we can instill in him a great pride in the USA despite not living here.
I have been feeling pretty good (although perhaps not looking so good) and have been thankful for this. Since I feel so well I am taking advantage of getting out every single day. Here is a bit of what we have been up to in our first week in Maryland.
A trip downtown to DC to see the beautiful Cherry Blossoms.
Our little buddy Jonathan has been fun to get to know more. Lucky for us his mom is a "single mom" (husbands deployed) with us these days and we get to do everything together.
On our first weekend we visited a little steam engine and tractor fair at a local county farm.
Here is telling Uncle Brian all about the engine. ;-)
Eating his first funnel cake.
Brushing the billy goats.
On one of the many tractor on display. There was even a baby pink one.
Playing in the hay with grandma.
Grandma took James to Build-a-Bear.
They decided on a fireman bear to remember our adventure the previous night when we had to call the fire department because the neighbors backyard was on fire!
James looks to be a happy kid with his fire bear that we named "Bombero".
