"Best Friend Family" and I ventured out in the rainy weather to visit the aquarium today! While the wet and chilly conditions made visiting the otters and seals a little less comfortable, it was still a nice way to spend the morning! Even if the semi-namesake was occasionally much more enamoured with the hand-stamp for re-entry than all the aquatic animals around her.


She was interested enough to ask me to pick her up at one point though, which was apparently a Big Deal since she only ever asks her parents to do so. These little moments of endearment are very sweet, but we all agree that for all her cuteness she remains a very effective vortex for sapping the energy out of three grown adults. We spent the rest of the day driving around the city to pick up food while she napped in the car, and then watched Disney's Frozen because we were all too tired to do anything else and TV is a very effective babysitter.

I am going to miss "Best Friend Family" when they leave tomorrow though, and I'm sad at the idea of not seeing them again until next year. I feel like every time I get to see the semi-namesake, I brace myself for her not being comfortable around me because these visits are so infrequent. (Obviously, the same concern does not extend to her parents!) I may have to try and head out for a visit at some point because I very much want them to be a part of my life, and vice versa.