January 27 - Just back from our annual trek to Charleston to celebrate Mamarite's birthday (96!). We got in some nice time with the family. It was good to see everyone and stay with Gigi, Hunter, Hershey, Rosie and Kiki. The girls kept us BUSY, especially Wren. Climbing, spinning, jumping, diving, running, falling, chasing dogs, opening china cabinets - Aye yie yie...

Highlights of the trip were the Children's Museum and walking to the coffee shop.

Snow Day, December 2007

We took the girls to a Sesame Street Live performance this weekend. I hope that I will always remember how much Sarah Wren enjoyed the show! She sat up straight, eyes glued to the stage. She bounced, she danced, she clapped and every once in awhile she would say "el-mo".

last Friday was the Holiday Party at Daycare and I am still recovering. It was fun, I'm glad that we went. Savannah had a great time getting ready, then a meltdown, then a great time with her friends/classmates. Sarah Wren hated getting ready, then had a wonderful time playing with Savannah's classmates then working the room downstairs, recognizing the babies in her class and running away from me. Savannah's class sang Jingle Bells and it was beautiful.

October 2007

October was a busy month! Foolishly hoping that things will settle down, but November is not starting out slow...Today I went along on Savannah's field trip to Cox Farms. Pumpkins, hayrides, slides, tunnels, haystacks. Very seasonal fun.

August 2007

July 2007....

Neighborhood Block Party in July 2007

July 2007 -

The girls and I strolled to the park one Tuesday morning. Savannah discovered the merry-go-round and was squealing and laughing with delight. We also enjoyed swinging and slides and the sandbox. Miss Desi showed up with popsicles and watermelon. It was a great day!

Fourth of July 2007. The girls and I went to the Festival in Vienna with our good neighbor Desi. We had much fun on the train ride, pony rides, moonbounce, popsicles and strolling around. Later we had delicious watermelon at home and watched fireworks on television.

Last night was crazy at our house. Sarah Wren's first birthday! We had not planned anything special, but we ended up having a great time. Desi came over to help decorate cupcakes. Elsa was also over and she and Savannah raced around, put sprinkles on the cupcakes and got Sarah Wren worked up. She was doing laps, chasing the older girls and Desi around the house. We all had cupcakes, Sarah Wren demolished her birthday cupcake. It was a festive and fun night.

Ahh....lovely weather today. Pat took the day off and we all went to the Reston Zoo. Mostly a petting zoo, also a few zebras, camels, monkeys and a huge yellow python. Savannah enjoyed feeding the sheep and the goats, especially the baby goats. We were not surprised when Savannah wanted to go on a pony ride, we were very surprised when she actually did it with no hesitation and she loved it. After the Zoo, everyone napped. Later in the evening I made cupcakes to take to daycare and Savannah learned all about cleaning up the batter bowl.
Yummy!

This weekend was the big bicycle assembly. I bought an unassembled Ariel Mermaid bike for Savannah's birthday. Patrick put it together (a painful job)and it is really cute! Savannah was excited about trying it out, but she tries to jump off the bike when she gets going too fast...

MEMORIAL DAY 2007

April and May were crazy busy months. Pat was out of town for most of April and girls were sick part of the time. But we also had some great weather and we spent lots of time outside with neighbors and going to the park.