I'm seeing a few themes developing this year: no time to blog, polar vortex..... as much as we enjoyed the almost-Ohio feeling winter (seriously), we welcome the hints of spring, and are hoping to see cherry blossoms this week (!). March has been busy. March Madness in the basketball sense was a little disappointing this year with both Ohio State and Duke losing in the first round- so much for our brackets. The few nice days we've had, we've tried to get out. Our first adventure was a bit of a mishap--dressed for a Sunday stroll through a paved garden in Georgetown, we headed to Dumbarten Oaks garden. Except we thought we could take a short cut from the park next to it, and ended up on a muddy hike through the woods. Finally made it back to the entrance, only to find out it was closed. Fail. Well, the hike was fun. Will have to try that one again.
We did do our best to celebrate St. Patrick's day, with green milk and Shepard's pie, and several readings of the kids' St. Patrick's Day books.
Nicholas and Christy took a few mommy-son trips to the National Mall. First for Orchid Symphony at the Botanical Gardens. We went at Christmas time for Seasons Greenings, and this was another beautiful display. Orchids are one of Christy's favorite flowers, ever since visiting the Orchid Garden in Singapore. We decided to walk back to the metro, and Nicholas had to go to the bathroom so we stopped off at the Air and Space Museum. Not bad for a potty break. Ended up walking through the How things Fly exhibit. The next week we went again for a cherry blossom event--kites at the Air and Space Museum this time we looked at the rocket ships as well. We were planning to go to the actual kite festival too, last weekend, but it was cancelled due to the rain. boo. At least we had a nice birthday party to go to that weekend, for our good friend Cora, complete with a pinata and bird feeders. Back to our afternoon, we finished with a puppet demonstration at the American History museum, and saw the Star Spangled Banner exhibit. Just in time for Nicholas's school unit on America. He can sing the Star Spangled Banner in French and English now. Not bad for a four year old.
Nicholas is doing great at Tae Kwon Do-- he'll test for his blue-stripe belt next week. Claire is a little monkey at Little Gym. She also does little piggie on her toes, all by herself. It's cute. Nicholas's Saturday soccer clinic started this week, so that's been fun, and afterwards of course we have to go to the Farmer's market for the donuts! We had our first Easter event this week--the neighborhood Easter Egg hunt. The kids got a few eggs, but the neighbors' swing set was the hit of the afternoon. Time to figure out swim lessons and summer plans already!
The park next to Dumbarten Oaks garden...
Orchid Symphony
Nicholas loves being the photographer!
Air and Space museum stop-off
Claire was a little skeptical about the green milk.
our little tech-girl
Shepard's pie
Kite exhibit at the Air and Space Museum
after the puppet show
you will notice the shirt--orange with a dragon. Two wins in the Nicholas favorite book. We can barely get him to take it off! Good thing the pink/red/orange load is a laundry staple in the Machak house!
birthday party bird feeder making
Easter egg hunt success! (hopefully they don't notice that the Easter bunny brings them the same baskets)
