September was a wonderfully fun and busy month!
We celebrated Labor Day together at the National
Harbor. We enjoyed the
morning exploring the Children’s Museum, eating lunch out, and even rode the
Capitol Ferris Wheel, with incredible views over the water! What a special treat!
We were so excited for the opening of school, to meet our
new teachers, and begin our Pre-K 4 year at Holy Comforter. We are happy to have new and old
friends in our class, and we still get to play with other friends at school on
the playground! Katharine’s first
job in class was weather helper, and Christopher’s was snack helper, but we get
new jobs each week. Mommy and
Daddy are already surprised by the way we are learning to draw and write our
names, and we have fun learning together at home each week, cutting out
pictures for the letter of the week book we are making at school!
We celebrated Mommy and Daddy’s birthdays with dinner out
and special desserts at home! For
Mommy’s birthday, we picked out cupcakes from Whole Foods on our way home from
school. For Daddy’s birthday, we
put our “chef hats” on to surprise him with a special pudding, chocolate, and
graham cracker dessert we helped make.
He was SO surprised!
And we had a great time making cards and gifts for Kristy
for Nanny Appreciation Week! Each
morning, we had so much fun giving her special surprises!
After “A” week at our school, learning all about apples (apple
coring, apple painting, cooking free-form apple pies), we were so looking
forward to our first family apple-picking trip! We went to Waters Orchard in Maryland, a new orchard, where
dwarf apple trees are trained low onto a trellis. After a neat wagon ride to the orchard, we were delighted to
see that we could really pick all our apples, right at our height! We quickly collected a half-bushel of
apples, and brought them home. Then
we washed them and helped make the pumpkin dip to go with them for our special
snack for school. Mommy let us
stir in the cream cheese and
spices, and even let us try out her electric mixer. We could hardly believe that her mixer used to be Grandma’s
mixer! Our friends LOVED the
special, yummy snack, and we had fun sharing about our trip to the orchard with
our class!
The last weekend of the month was beautiful, and perfect for
our first race! We ran the Teddy
Bear 5K (we really did the 1K Fun Run/Walk) to benefit the McLean Children’s
Center. We had a ball playing all
the fun games before the race, and were thrilled to receive a teddy bear as we
crossed the finish line! We
certainly tired, and walked parts of our race, but were quickly motivated again
by other children running by us.
And how exciting it was when we saw everyone cheering us on at the
finish line! What a fun day!
Love Christopher and Katharine
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