Watching the Brady Bunch

Me and my sisters like to watch the Brady Bunch. I think our all time favorite episode is "A Camping We Will Go."by: Anna

January and February fun

I would like to introduce some new writers: Anna and Abigail! Here is their first post:

we made mini muffin mice. we used Abby's new cooking set.by: Anna

Abby went to the hairdresser:

Abby lost her first tooth! It was exciting and happy :)

We made pots. Anna made tow and I made tow too and a bunny. by Abby.

 Elizabeth had her first dentist appointment. By:Anna

Daddy love's his girls. By:Anna

Stylish ladies

All 3 ladies got their hair styled with a bow one day last week & agreed to a picture!

Birthday weekend!

The last weekend in April we had a super birthday celebration. Grandma, Grandpa, Nana, Uncle Pete, and Natalia all traveled here to help us celebrate. We celebrated Elizabeth's 1st birthday on Saturday, Abby's 4th birthday and Anna's 6th birthday on Sunday, and Grandma's birthday on Friday night. AND we managed to visit Great Falls National park and Roosevelt Island as well as fit in Anna's soccer game and lunches at a Japanese restaurant and a vegetarian Asian restaurant. 

Anna & Abby's dually themed princess and Frozen party also included a princess bounce castle. We were lucky that the weather was beautiful not just for the party, but for a full day of bouncing!

Elizabeth's party:

Anna & Abby's party:

 adding sprinkles to her Elsa cake

all ready!

The birthday girls on the slide:

look who else hit the slide:

Great Fall National Park

Anna's soccer game

A belated: Happy Easter!

Happy 1st Birthday, Elizabeth Grace

Pictures from Easter and our triple birthday celebration weekend are coming soon. For now:

Happy Birthday, Elizabeth! In the past month Elizabeth has been very busy. She can now stand up without holding on and she loves to practice (and have people clap for her!) She discovered the kitchen cabinets this month, which sent Daddy on an emergency trip to home depot before work one morning to buy cabinet locks so Mommy could make breakfast! She loves to practice walking with her walker - or anything she can turn into a walker (kitchen chair, doll high chair, ect.). She also loves to climb onto riding toys - especially the new rocking horse she got for her birthday. She loved going to visit the Easter Bunny this month. Every time I carry her past the refrigerator she points to her picture with the Easter Bunny and yells, "Ba-ba, ba-ba!" She also yells "Ba-ba" when she hears Rory, the dog next door, barking in his backyard. She loves to go outside and see him. If I put her down on the grass she crawls right over to him yelling "Ba-ba, ba-ba!" She gets a little scared when she gets too close, though. At times she also referred to Grandpa as "Ba-ba," this past weekend. We also might have heard an "Apa." She has said "okay" and "kay" a couple times. This morning I asked her if she was hungry and she said a "b" sound (not "ba-ba"). I said, would you like a banana (her usual beginning to her breakfast) and she got so excited - as if she was so excited that I understood her.

Happy Birthday, Elizabeth Grace! We love you so!

Great Falls National Park

I'm not sure how it took us 7 years of living in northern VA to check out this awesome park just 25 minutes from our house. I guess it would not be that great with a walking child who does not listen - so that does cancel 2 of the past 7 years, but still, what were we doing the other 5 years? 

After checking out the falls, we hiked the river trail where Anna & Abby did a lot of "rock work." (Meandering slightly off the trail to climb over rocks.)

Today was the first extended use of the back-riding ergo - it's great!

look who else did rock work!

The biggest adventure of the day was hiking down to this little creek and across it so we could get closer to the river. It took some tricky footing, but we did it!

 Lounging on some rocks for a snack and some entertainment provided by rock climbers and kayackers.

Some other cute pictures from this week: