Capitol Tour

The capitol gives free tours to the public and Christian's boy scout troop went, but we couldn't go due to basketball games so I scheduled one for just our family.  We went on a Saturday that was a beautiful day and had a picnic and went on the tour.  It was a good tour, but I wanted to stay in the rooms longer to look at everything.  The flowers were gorgeous around the capitol so we took a lot of pictures.  It is so fun to go into DC for a little trip and not have to try and do everything in one or two days.  It was a fun time.  We have really learned our way around DC and I even feel a little more confident about it.

Same shirt

The kids came down the other morning at different times with their superman shirts on.  No they didn't talk to each other about it.  Just thought it was funny!  Great minds think alike!

Christian helping to cook dinner

Christian's boy scout leader asked them to design a healthy dinner and help make it for the family.  Christian wanted Chicken on the bone (we did chicken strips-baked not fried), pinapple, pickles, and yummy bread a.k.a garlic bread.  So he helped me to cut the pineapple up and put the breading on the chicken.

 Putting all the seasoning in the bag

 Shaking it up

 I have a pineapple slicer/corer and so he is drinking the juice after I got the slices out

The finished product

Greatest Show on Earth

I signed up for a site that gives you great deals like groupon, but on kids events in the area.  I got a 50% off deal on the Circus and the kids had never been so I got tickets.  Thankfully, Christian's face looked almost normal and it was not painful.  We got there a little early just in time to go on the floor of the pre-show.  The kids did the bounce house and we watched the clown do tricks.  He asked for adult volunteers and Brian didn't raise his hand, but was still picked to throw a stick for the clown so he could catch it with two other sticks.  He says,"I always get picked for these kind of things."  It is not a good picture, but here it is.

The kids had a great time and of course Christian's favorite part was the clowns and dog tricks and Piper's favorite part was the elephants.  The lions were a little scary and actually pushed the tamer into a corner at one point-Who says-"I want to be a lion tamer when I grow up"We had a great time.

On a funny note-Brian and I said several times our kids were the perfect age for the circus because there were lots of families with toddlers around us and the kids kept asking when they could go home after about 10 minutes or they were wrestling with them the whole time.  I love this age!

Scooter jumps

After we took some of the pictures in the backyard Christian wanted to show us his scooter jumps and other tricks.

You can see he got air!

 

 Then, Brian decided to get on the scooter and show them he could do tricks too!  Fun Times!

Christian's swollen face

My kids very rarely get sick, but Thursday of last week I noticed that Christian's cheek was a little swollen and he said it hurt.  I thought it was a loose tooth that was coming out and hitting a nerve because his gums were swollen and called and got a dentist appt for Monday.  Well, Friday he woke up looking like this:

Pretty bad right so we went to the doctor.  He had a salivary gland obstruction, kind of like a kidney stone except in the mouth.  He started us on antibiotics and told us heat and massage would help get the obstruction out.  So Christian laid on a heating pad all day and I tried to rub it, but it really hurt him.  He didn't look a whole lot better on Saturday and was worried, because the doctor said if it was  not better on Monday that meant surgery.  So we watched movies and laid on the heating pad and I was worried as we were suppose to go to the circus the next day and he was miserable.  Well, the antibiotics and everything kicked in because by Sunday he was his happy self again. 

Funny thing is this is not that common but who else had this same thing this year-one of his best friends, Nevin Harwood.

The doctor was awesome-called us on Saturday to see how he was doing  not his nurse and on Monday.  I think we picked a good one.

Cherry Blossom Fail and Pretty Pictures

One thing I do love about Virginia is the beauty!  The fall and spring are amazing and just show the glory of God's creation.  I decided before all the flowers on the trees turned to leaves I would take some pictures of the kids by our bush and tree in our backyard.

We did go downtown to try and see the cherry blossoms in DC, but they were not out anymore so we just went to the air and space museum.

So here are pictures of the kids by our cotton candy tree as they call it: