Cute kid pictures

Baby's First NASA Mission

Two days before Annabel was born, I drove down to Lockheed Martin to be part of the "Women of MAVEN" group photo with the spacecraft. I wanted to be part of the picture to show that you can be a mom and still work on NASA missions. Maybe someday Annabel will be a scientist or an astronaut and she can point to this picture as her first planetary mission.

Reading

Julian bought Annabel some books at his school's used book sale. 

Junior Egyptologist

Julian's class has been learning about ancient Egypt, and today they had a museum tour in their classroom. Julian told us everything he knows about mummies, pyramids, Egyptian gods, hieroglyphs, and the Nile, which is a lot. E.g. "Narmer was the first pharaoh and he united upper and lower Egypt but Upper Egypt is on the bottom and Lower Egypt is on the top, and Hatshepsut was married to a pharaoh but he died so she was the first woman pharaoh," and so on, including a detailed and accurate account of the mummification process. Here he is in his Egyptian costume, including the shirt that Grandma Jean brought him from Egypt a few years ago, showing off the mummy case and pyramids they made.

A happy Annabel movie

Three months

Annabel is 3 months old today! To celebrate, she tried to play with her toes:

And she had a nap. 

A few pictures

At Walk to School Day: