Brooklawn and Petworth

I may be biased in thinking there isn’t a bad picture of Joseph, but I took quite a few good ones at the playground today.  Some others are on our website. 

We had another rough night with Joseph waking up a couple times, and this morning he was in a very good mood but mellow.  We went for a long drive around Brooklawn and Catholic University.  We also stumbled upon the United States Soldiers and Airmen’s Home, which has a cottage that President Lincoln lived in at times, and the cemetery adjacent to it which is the only other national cemetery other than Arlington administered by the army.  I didn’t know any of this but read up on it on wikipedia and elsewhere after I got home.  We never got out of the car but it was a nice drive through an area I didn’t know much about.  I had intended to get to the Rock Creek Cemetery but we never made it – that’ll be next time.

Driving around Brooklawn was a bit of a nostalgia trip right after yesterday morning at Iwo Jima – we used to meet Lisa and Steph and Curtis there for brunch on the weekends all the time.