Garden in Patio

Vicky Smiles
Sunflower
Nayeli and her Red Pepper
Indoor Eating
Eating by the Garden
Garden

The Montgomery County Fair

John Deere toy


Today, the kids went to the Montgomery County Fair. There were a lot of rides, games, animals and exhibits on display. Nayeli got her corn-on-the-cob and Victoria drank a lot of lemonade and ate BBQ. We got to see baby animals in the barn. They both loved the ducks the most. After three hours, we were worn out.

The Best Toddler Playgrounds in D.C.

For the past month, I've been on a quest to locate the very best inexpensive things to do for Nayeli and Victoria. Since malls seem to suck our wallets dry, playgrounds really fit to our budget.

Best Outdoor Playground:

Hands down. CLEMYJONTRI
19 Acres of Pure Free Fun for kids. The playground is located in McLean, Virginia.

View from Helicopter

There is a giant maze there. I like to run in there and have Nayeli and Victoria chase after me. Of course, I get seperated from them and they start crying because they can see me, but they can't get to me. Hehehe.

I also like the millions of different slides and confidence courses. Lots of climbing, bouncing, running and thinking to do around here. This park was designed for kids with physical disabilities so it is extra spacious and very safe. Just don't let your kids run around without supervision, because they WILL lose you.

View from Outer Space


Best Indoor Park:

PlayWiseKids Located in Columbia, Maryland.



PlayWiseKids offers 25,000 square feet of of playtime and learning opportunities for toddlers through 10-year-olds. The open facility is divided into walled-off areas with different types of activities... a large sand pit (beach), a real Fire Truck, puppet show theater, dress-up area with dance floor, supermarket, castle with a pool of plastic balls, classroom, building zones, baby play area and outer space, among other things.

Nayeli and Victoria loved this place and would stay forever if they could. This place also has a Cafe which sell pizza, snacks and ice cream.

The cost is $9.95 per child (ages 24 mos. - 10 years), $6.95 per toddler (12 mos. - 23 mos.) and $4 per adult. Not really that expensive compared to going to a theme park, such as Six Flags, where toddlers wouldn't be able to play on 75% of the rides anyways.

Good to come when the weather is really bad, it is about 35 minutes from where I live. We visited during a changeover in management. The new owners asked me if I would make any changes or what they can do to make the place even better... after being there after an hour, I shrugged my shoulders because I didn't really have any suggestions because I haven't explored everything yet. I just had difficulty finding a parking spot in the front because I didn't know that there was ample parking behind the building.

Victoria Speaks

17 Month Old Victoria at Playground from IncrediblyX on Vimeo.

Geocities is Shutting Down!

There is a rush to archive everything that is still on Geocities! Several people have reminded me about this on Facebook and I'm doing my best to archive everything before it gets wiped out of history. It's like burning all the world's history books in one swoop! Those jerks.

I figure that I should upload some of my favorite pictures of the past to preserve on the Blogger. My dad uploaded hundreds and hundreds of pictures. They're nice to see until they get deleted. Hopefully, Blogger will stay online for a while.

I've been on the web for 12 years. Wow.


Little Rock 1984
Our house got robbed. Lost our TV, VCR and precious baby pictures.

Doesn't Victoria look like Phoebe?
1982

Family Fun Day

Playground on Pliers Mill Rd. Maryland from IncrediblyX on Vimeo.

Parks, Parks and MORE PARKS!

Victoria likes the huge crazy slides. Victoria has absolutely no fear. She will step off any slide and she will tumble and roll down if she has to.
Vicky at 17 months
ASBBC got two nominees for the Sailor of the Quarter Board
Mickey Ears!
Nayeli doing the infamous "Asian Squat"

Kids watching "Scratch Incident"

In Response to the Scratching Incident from IncrediblyX on Vimeo.

Pics at CDC and Whole Foods

Soco eating at Whole Foods
Vicky at CDC

Nayeli at CDC

Visit to GETTYSBURG, PA

Wooden Fence how it looked in the 1800's
View from Little Round TopLittle Round Top was a strategic location because it overlooks much of the battlefield. The Confederates saw that the location was abandoned, so they tried to take this hill. The Federals discovered this at the same time, resulting in heavy casualties on both sides. The fighting was so fierce, there was hand-to-hand combat with bayonnets. After a long day in the second day of battle, the Union eventually took this hill.

The Union Cannons The Cannons used here were fired on the first day of the battle at Gettysburg. The heavy firing here resulted in 1,475 casualties.
Another view from the Top of Little Round Top
Pennsylvania MonumentThis monument was the largest of all the states. All the Confederate and Union states contributed in this epic battle with the state of Pennsylvania suffering the heaviest losses. The Union army at this battle was made up 1/3rd of Pennsylvanian troops. At this memorial, the names of every Pennsylvanian that was killed here was inscribed into this monument.
General Robert E Lee
Downtown Gettysburg
The CutsIn the cuts for this railroad track (the railroad hasn't been put down yet), 230 Confederates were trapped and surrendered here.
The First Day

Scratching Incident

Scratch Incident from IncrediblyX on Vimeo.

Victoria with Chalk

June 09

Victoria Cries

I finally got my Sony digital camera fixed! It only cost me $20 for shipping. Apparently, there was a defect in the CCD chip and it went out two weeks ago. Now it's good as new.

Vicky at Playground
Soco and Ex going to the 111th Birthday Ball for Hospital Corpsman

Last night, me and Soco went to the ball for some food and cake. It was really good. There was chicken and pasta there. Like always, we didn't win any door prizes.



Nayeli and her sunburnt face

Nayeli has been spending a lot of time out at the playground. Her face is a bit sunburnt. She's okay though.

I need Wonderpets on Computer.

Trip to Arkansas and Back

Vicky in Tennessee

Phoebe with Camera
Celebrating Nayeli's Third Birthday with a cupcake!
Look at Her
At Little Rock Airport
Kiddy Smiles
Grandkids
Victoria got bit by Fire Ants!
Exhausted...
Cooking