White House Easter Egg Roll

This was the first year we attempted to get tickets for the White House Easter Egg Roll. Overall, it was a fun afternoon! Here are a few highlights...

The line moved surprisingly fast... here we are in a "holding area" waiting to get in. Lily was surprisingly patient.Starting to move again... look how far away we still are!
Getting closer...
The first thing we saw once we made it on the grounds? CLIFFORD! Lily squealed and ran right up to him...

"Oh, Clifford... I love you."

The PBS characters all had handlers... here we are giving Curious George a quick high-five as he was being escorted away.
Lily posing with her Daddy and Sid the Science Kid (Noah is on J's back)
Family photo in front of the Obama Family's new digs
Of course we had to stop and say hi to the Easter Bunny!
Jeremy squealed like a little kid when he realized Ben Olsen was in the house :)
Waiting to play a little soccer
Lily's second favorite character... Word Girl!
We had fun walking around the grounds before heading home.
Very cool to see the event take on a play-related theme... you can my brief work blog entry here.

Lily's Fun, Busy Weekend

Snuggles for her Mommy before we left for ballet class Getting ready for an Easter egg hunt on Saturday
Digging through her Easter basket on Sunday morning
Easter bunny impression
A fun afternoon on the Mall later in the day... one of our stops was the Museum of American History (where Lily and her mama made faces like Stephen Colbert).

Fun Pics from J's phone

Enjoying a Valentine's Day cupcake at school
Breakfast at Sidamo
Action shot at the playground
Snuggling with Grandpa
First trip to the dentist... she did great!
Mmm... hot cocoa

Cherry Blossoms

One of the best parts of walking around DC in the springtime.

Ballerina

Lily starts ballet class on Saturday!

Rock Chalk

Heading out - in full jayhawk gear, of course - on Friday...

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

We started off the day with St Patty's tshirts, shamrock stickers and, of course.... green pancakes, which were a big hit with Lily!

Crazy Weather

A couple weeks ago we had a crazy range of weather... a snow day on Monday, and then 70 degree sunshine on Friday. Here are the highlights from the snow day:

Painter

The last thing the parent of a toddler wants is for them to paint on the walls... right? Well, Lily's Grandpa decided that Lily would make a pretty good helper. And she had soooo much fun. Every time she's in her playroom, she points to this wall and says "I painted that!".... to which I reply, "But where do you paint when Grandpa's not here?" and she quickly answers "Only on the paper." Fingers crossed.

Bedtime Snuggles

Lily loves to snuggle with her little brother before he goes to bed... no matter how grumpy she gets at the end of the day, when we tell her it's Noah's bedtime she runs upstairs and jumps on our bed so she can have a little time with him.

A Day Off... and Out!

It was so nice for everyone to have the day off today... so Lily joined some friends at the Air & Space Museum. Here she is hard at work with Annie. Here are Annie, Lily and Ava giggling over the "space potty"...

Happy little girls...

Hugging Ava goodbye!