Air and Space Museum

Our next adventure was to the Air and Space Museum in D.C.  This was a pretty cool place.  Just looking at all the real rockets, airplanes and satellites is pretty amazing.  In addition to that they had a whole bunch of children's experiments teaching you about everything from wind flow to far off galaxies.

Again it was super crowded and I can't wait to come back during the slow season to spend more time looking at everything.  We only made it through about 3/4 of the museum before the kids were more than spent and we headed home.  I love being able to visit the museums as we please.  Knowing we can come back any time to see the last 1/4 of the Air and Space makes it a lot less frustrating and I don't have to go into crazy mommy mode pushing the kids through the whole thing in one shot.

Kaden was really excited for this adventure.  In case you didn't know, for the last couple of years Kaden's career ambition has been to be an astronaut and a guy who talks on the radio.  Coming in a close second is to be a janitor.  The poor kid hasn't realized cleaning the bathroom isn't fun yet!

Savannah was a pretty popular exhibit at the Museum as well.  Chinese people really like her!  We even had  two ladies stop us to look and take pictures of her while she was sleeping.  They kept trying to ask us questions, but since they only spoke Chinese and we don't it didn't go far.  I'm not sure how they expected that conversation to work.  I mentioned it to Kimball's brother Alvin who served his mission in Hong Kong and he said its probably because of her curly hair.  They don't see that much and she certainly has a lot of it.  

Finally we have our latest family portrait.  This is us in front of the thermal-something-or-other camera.  I remember us all being on the screen together, but looking at it now I can't find Kimball.  He must be a cold blooded vampire or something that doesn't show up on thermal pictures.  

I had to put one solitary photo of Savannah not looking like a frizzy haired grumpy baby.  Its been brought to my attention that's what they mostly have been (Monica).  Now you have proof.  Sometimes, on very rare occasions, my child does not look like a crazed ragmuffin, but rather the sweet beauty she is!

Hope You Had an "Egg"-celent Birthday Jo!

I know, I know.  The title of this post is extremely clever.  Sometimes I amaze myself ;).  But Jocilyn did have her fourth birthday on Easter this year.  She was so cute.  She said she wanted a pink birthday party and that is what she got!  Pink butterfly cake, pink tablecloths draped across anything and everything, and pink balloon garlands all over the place.

Because we hadn't been here long we had a small fun party with our cute little neighbours Audi and Noland on Saturday.  Just cupcakes and ice cream followed by an Easter Egg hunt on post.  Jocilyn had a great day.  

She is an absolutely adorable girl getting more grown up each time I look at her.  Her favorite games are playing house, painting, and playing more house.  Favorite color is decidedly pink.  Favorite food is peanut butter and jelly.  She loves to show me how grown up she is and tries extra hard to do things we're trying to teach Kaden.  I absolutely love her and am so grateful to have my little princess! 

Just a small tidbit about Easter.  We purposely celebrated Jo's birthday a day early just to try and keep things a little separate.  The end result being two days of ridiculous sugar intake.  It worked out well for everyone.

We were of course running late for church that day.  You would think 1:30 would give us enough time, so I didn't get many pictures, but imagine the cleanest, most beautiful/handsome, incredibly polite children you can and I'm sure my kids looked something like that.  Next year I promise to do better!

Later that night I did have time to take a picture of this yummy dessert I made.  Its a cheesecake recipe I got off pinterest.  Can I just say Yum!  I've never made cheesecake before but this was a hit for Kimball and I.  It was just the right serving size too, filled in a chocolate egg.  I think the kids would have preferred ice cream, but they tried hard to pretend.  (We've been working on not complaining at dinner.  My favorite phrase Kaden has come up with is "its not as good as I expected, but I still like it.  Coming from the mouth of Kaden I take that as a five star critique!)