Play inside school sandbox

Pretty much every Tuesday and Wednesday when I pick Will up at school I ask, "So what did you at school today?" Reliably, Will answers, "Play inside school sandbox!" As the school year has progressed so has the description of what exactly he's done in the sandbox. Yesterday I got a whole story about the activity pictured below.

He's always busy, but he's always happy!!!

Cherry blossoms!

With planning that would rival a Shuttle launch, we successfully got everyone down to the National Mall today to see the cherry blossoms. After breakfast, we rangled everyone into pinks and reds and off we went.


Will only wanted to fly his kite and he said he wouldn't be in pictures, but he happily obliged anyway. Here's the big brother and his little sweeties.



We have pictures of Will with the blossoms when he was one and in our mind's eye we really wanted similar pictures of the girls in the blooms. We're very happy to get these of Stella and Maggie. Ironically, Stella did all of the smiling today while Maggie was the serious one.


There was almost no wind on the Mall so Will had to produce his own. He was SO proud when this took off.


We have very few pictures of the five of us so we're excited to get this one (on a timer, no less). The trip was so tiring, and a little stressful, but so very rewarding.

A day in the park

It was another sunny day, and as predicted a tear free one (for the most part anyway!). After some morning errands, we headed to a new playground and Will thought that was "a nice idea Mommy!"

Maggie & Stella swung on the swings, trying out their new sunhats.

And Will explored all of the different slides and tunnels. In the end, he was happiest just playing with the mulch and running around.