Tully Travels to Washington DC - Day 2...

This continues from my first blog post of Tully Travels to Washington DC...

Our second morning in DC (Tuesday September 20, 2011) starts out simple and fun.  Tully is almost crawling here.  He would get up on all fours and rock... then catapult forward towards whatever he was trying to reach, then back up on all fours again and do the same thing until he could reach what he wanted.  He was not actually crawling yet, but he had his system of getting to where he wanted to be.

Previously he would just roll from front to back to front to back, traveling across the floor up to 10 feet getting to where he wanted or maybe it was getting to where he just ended up!  I think he was just fascinated with rolling!  ...but, here in DC he began this rocking thing and now since back home he has began to do the arm pull across the floor.  I love watching him learn to navigate and we all know he will be navigating into places he shouldn't be in no time!

Almost crawling

Okay, so on with our day... Tuesday we ventured down to an area called Bethesda Row.

This particular street was Bethesda Lane, but it was for walking only-- no cars!
There were lots of little shops to wander in and out of.

Here we met a little lady who seemed so poised, she was shopping and she stopped and talked with Tully for quite a while.  We had nothing in particular to do, so we just visited with her.  I'm sure it made her day!  Tully was on his best behavior and was full of smiles and coos.  He knew Grammy would beat him when we got back to the room if he didn't act right... well, maybe he didn't really think that, but he sure was a good boy.  The elderly lady was unlike most people on the East Coast who won't even make eye contact or say hello... so it just goes to show there are friendly people everywhere!

We teased and texted Mommy that we stopped in and out of all the pubs and taverns!

The whole Bethesda Row Area was so colorful and pretty.  Tully loved the hustle-bustle and watching the people, cars, and delivery trucks.  I didn't think to take a picture of all the traffic, but he was fascinated with it all!  It was not his normal stroll around the park in his neighborhood at home.  There were so many people, noises, and horns here that it made everything exciting.  The more horns the better!  Sometimes, I think there was so much going on that it made him forget he was cutting teeth!  Poor baby, I hate when he hurts... but we had Tylenol and teething tablets and they definitely helped!  We continued on our journey and found Barnes and Noble Book Store.  It had either 4 or 5 floors, Grammy can't remember exactly, but it was huge!

Mommy's boss had told us about this store...

We found the children's' department and it had everything for children!!!
I think we could have spent a whole day in here just playing and reading!

Eventually we moved on and found this waterfall outside the book store.  The water began flowing on the right side and ran through the black stone trough into the big white bowl... but along the trough were notches that created a waterfall that ran down the green stone wall.  From the big white bowl it spilled over into the larger pool.  I loved the architectural look and soothing sound.

Tully loved watching the many water features we saw throughout each day!

This was one of our longer days to stroll.  We stopped at Haagen-Dazs Ice Cream for a treat.  Grammy enjoyed a Mango Sorbet while Tully was treated to a yummy bottle of breast milk!  I think Grammy got the better treat, but Tully will never know!

I had the sales clerk put a scoop of sorbet in a cup thinking that would be the easiest way for me to eat it... but I never seemed to have 2 hands free for that - one to hold the cup and one for the spoon!  While holding Tully and feeding him his bottle, that made each bite I tried to take from the cup of sorbet right within Tully's reach... he had his little fingers in that sorbet more than once!  Grammy was prepared with wipes but now knows getting it in a cone might have been easier, I could have eaten it with one hand, but not sure how I would have set it down while tending to him???  Maybe a cone that I could turn upside down in a cup??? ... or maybe just eat my melted sorbet after he was through with his bottle!   I'm going to have to get in the groove of this grandkid thing!

Everything was so well maintained, it was a lovely area to spend time.

Fancy Cakes by Leslie was one of our favorite stops!  Today we bought sweets and surprised Mommy when she came in from working.

Mommy was so happy with her treat that we had to stop by again a second day!

Tully picked out a chocolate chip cookie sandwich made with
chocolate panache and Mommy loved it! 

After a fun day of rolling along the sidewalks and taking time for his naps and meals, time was nearing for Mommy to get off work; so we made our way back to the Metro Station.  This cascading waterfall was at the entrance of the Bethesda Metro Station.  We saw it every day when we went to meet mommy; and every day Tully was just as enthused to see it as if it was his first time to see it!  He looked so small up against it.

Monday, I saw him looking up to the top...

So Tuesday, I took a picture of him watching the flags and fountains!

The waterfall curved and tiered around the escalator/stairway.

This was a great place for us to wait for Mommy to get off work!

Grammy loved watching him be so intrigued.

We always just spent our whole day on "Tully Time", because Grammy was not distracted with anything else she had to do.  I truly loved every minute with him!

Tully's Travels to Washington DC to be continued...

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