Sunday, May 20, 2012

Sunday Afternoon

Sunday Afternoon

Babies, basketball, bathing suits,
Birds, breeze, being... Beautiful.

Scent of wood-chips and lilacs fill my nose,
Sun and breezy shade take turns
alternately warming and cooling my skin

Big white puffy clouds
patches of blue poking through
leaves move on trees, reminding me
of the movie "Phenomenon"

Birds singing their carefree tunes
All different, still together
making an outdoors song

Man trimming his yard farther off
The buzzing adding its own rhythm
to nature's calming background

Kids running, laughing, 
fighting for turns
"Helping" Daddy wash the car

Lessons in Patience and Love,
and Loving What Is,
Abound.




Running home, babies and basketballs

Mommy aka wannabe poet, sits and watches for a bit



Dunking her head in the pool
I just got Daddy wet!
She just got Daddy wet!
Teamwork! Washing the neighbor's car too :-)



Friday, May 11, 2012

Car Wash

We had an awesome play-date with our friends Sam and Josie on Wednesday. We had about 12 projects/crafts going (ok, 3 or 4) and this is one of them. We made a car-wash for toy cars. The idea was inspired by Curious George - that little monkey sure is creative! He is hard to keep up with, but we try. Marisol often *has* to try and re-create his inventions.  
















Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Best. Day. Ever.


So I stole that expression from my daughter. But today was just so awesome!

Mike took the day off and we went down to DC for the day.

We went to see a 747 carrying a Space Shuttle fly over DC.
It will be in the Air and Space Museum soon.

Then to our favorite - Natural History Museum
(Magnetic) Lodestone

Gift Shop Purchases =
Whistle for Gerry
Stuffed Snake for Marisol
(Blue Purple Jaguar - or was it Purple Blue Jaguar?)


Marisol took the world's shortest nap - must have been about 5 minutes!

Gerry got his snooze on Mom.








Duck Bottoms!



Mama Duck and Babies


Goslings too!

Lots of construction down on the Mall

We flew kites for about 5 minutes until they both broke-
We don't recommend $5 kites!
Trying to piece it back together








Smelling the flowers


Picnic in front of the White House
Exhausted kids on Metro-
Each with "their" iPhone ;-)