Washington DC

This past week one of my brothers, Tim, came out to visit for a few days with 3 of his kids. First of all, these kids are such great kids. Even Eric who was much older than any of my kids was super nice about playing with everyone, and being kind. And Rachel and Jenna are just so cute. Jenna is such a tiny little thing, it's hard to believe she's a month older than Graham! But I just loved spending time with these kids while they were here. One of the greatest things about living so close to my mom is that when the siblings come and visit her, I get to leech onto the visit. :) On the first day that they were here, we went down to Baltimore to play at the Science Center. I forgot my camera that day. Maybe one day I'll figure out how to load pictures from the phone onto the computer. The next day we went down to DC. One day I'd like to go to DC and see something other than the kid's discovery room and Transportation exhibit at the American History, and the Hall of Mammals, and Dinosaurs at the Natural History museums. But that's what the kids like, so that's what we go and see. I guess it's better to keep Nate and Graham happy than to see something new that they don't care about at all. :)

It was FREEZING that day, and cold. Eric wanted to see the White house, so we walked down to the Washington Monument so that they could look at it from afar. Then they decided that they really wanted to walk down to the Lincoln Monument. Tim was willing to take them, so Tim trekked down there, with 5 kids, while my mom and I went back to the American History Museum to try to warm Olivia up.

All in all, it was a fun day, and I'm glad that I was able to spend time with Tim and his kids, even though they really did come out to visit with Grandma!