Nap time!

Art Corner

We took the Christmas tree down and made the former office space corner into an art corner.

Mr. Rogers, a walk, and helping Andy spackle.

Christmas Eve

Louis got a digger. Jean got some dinosaurs but is young enough to still think its way more fun to play with Andy's glasses.

Old Soldiers Home

Louis and Jean went with a group of local kids to hand out holiday cards to the folks living at the Old Soldiers Home up the street.  Jean is in the red and white stripes and you can surely see Louis.

In case you're still looking for something to get Louis for Christmas, he reports that he'd like "a jigsaw so I can build a bike".

Play, Work, Build

More building museum

This place is so cool. Indoor play space is a permanent feature. Theres tons of blocks and trucks, a costume closet (see louis' construction jacket) an indoor sandbox, and all sorts of things to destroy that neither andy or I ever have to clean up :-)
The "play, work, build" is an exhibit upstairs. We'll be spending a lot of time here thanks to Papo and the membership we got for Christmas. We get "guest" spots so if you wanna come with us it's free!!

National building museum

"hey, I wanna see that"

Watching Diggers

More repair work on the streets of D.C. I have been off on paid vacation for the past 2 weeks and it has been truly amazing to take the time w/ the kids to do things like this! It's also been about 70 degrees here too. Truly scary! End of days...

Louis

Hangin out on the porch in December during a 65-degree day. Not bad.

Jean

Kitchen

Building Museum

Thanksgiving at Mimi's

Lamenting the loss of the nap

Naptime

Lunch with Papo

Louis cleans the car!!!