When I was getting flowers and planting done Caed decided that helping me was a lot of fun. Dirt is definitely a good time occupier- and also a dirty one! He had lots of fun grabbing the dirt from the one container to the empty flower pot. Now, it being weeks later it's tricky to teach him not to grab the dirt out of the containers that have things growing in them!
Jon, Caed, April and I were invited to the White House for the Queen's arrival weeks ago- and these are some of the photos we took. I delayed a project I was working on to be there, Jon took off some time from work, and April switched her work shifts to come along! We had a lot of fun- we were far away, but thought it was the biggest privilege to be on the White House lawn for this special ceremony.
The Peterson Family
Mom and son in front of the White House
Dad and son getting a better view
The crowd
I know it's hard to see in this photo, but it's President Bush and the Queen!
My friend Jan and I (Jan got us the tickets to be there!)
We were at the playground weeks ago and Caed decided that drinking my iced Coffee was enjoyable. No, the cup was empty, but I thought it was funny.
He's so good at drinking from a big cup!
We've had a busy month! I am in the process of getting my pictures ready to post, so I will be posting over the next few days. I am going to try to get them all done in the right time sequence...Hope you check back again as I catch up with posting about the Petersons in DC!
So about 2 weeks ago they took down the beautiful tree in front of our house. It will suppossedly be replaced by a new tree in the fall, but for now we have a VERY sunny front yard! (I am actually really sad about this, but I am trying not to be attached to a tree!)
Water Ice and the playground
Here is the Kouveras family- after getting water ice-
Miss Olivia in the back of the truck
Carrie and Eliza
Jerry and Caed
The siblings- Aden managing to pick up his brother and sister in one attempt!
Carrie and Caed
Picture of Caed that Heather took at the playground
Aden playing around and I think he's actually stuck!
Mom and son
Around Town
Ducks in the parking lot
before bath time
swinging in the park
Jerry and the kids relaxing!
Caed and I (and Khaki) went to my sister Heather's house in Washington Crossing, PA, for a few days while her husband, Jerry, was travelling. We had a great time, and Caed loved spending time with his cousins. Aden, Chantz and Olivia were such good cousins and they entertained Caedmon so well. My very good friend Carrie and her cousin Eliza even came out from Long Island to visit us as well. We had such a good time on our trip!
The NAC
Heather's family has a membership to the local gym and her kids take classes there, so we went as a group to Olivia's ballet class one day. It has the coolest play area for kids. We enjoyed it a lot there, and Caed had his first experience in a ball pit, which he absolutely loved. He picture below is very typical of Caed these days- with his tongue sticking completely out of his mouth!
So this year to celebrate our 5th Anniversary, we went to the circus. Yes, we are incredibly romantic. (this was in addition to a great French dinner) We went because a couple of years ago we went for our 1st or 2nd anniversary, and with Caed now we thought it would be fun and easy to manage. We metro'ed down there and had a good time. We were hoping Caed would fall asleep in the stroller on our way there, but he didn't, he finally was so exhausted he fell asleep in Jon's arms. As for his favorite part of the show, I think he was inspired. We may have a lion tamer on our hands in the future.
With the very sad news of Jerry Falwell's death, I found this picture and wanted to post it. Jerry, above everything was always friendly with the Liberty Students. This picture was taken when Jon and I went back to Liberty for Homecoming in October 2005. One of my former roommates, Teagan and I asked if we could take our photo with him, and as always he was willing to pose with us. It's only fitting that it was in front of his black suburban. He would drive around campus in it, and pretend to aim at us students. He did have a good sense of humor along with a lot of other great qualities. We will miss him greatly!.jpg)
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