Happy 2015!
We kicked off the New Year by enjoying some family time together
at home – Long Winter Vacations are a wonderful thing! On New Year’s Day, we saw the National
Christmas Tree and train display, near the White House. Then we visited Union Station for lunch,
and walked over to see the Capitol Tree, and the train and holiday displays at
the Botanic Gardens! We had
such fun exploring in DC!
We also took a day to enjoy Mommy-Daughter and Father-Son
dates out together, and spent the weekend playing with our new Lego sets at
home. And then we started getting
ready to go back to school.
Except…. The second day of school, it snowed, and we enjoyed
the first of several snow days and delayed days. We had great fun sledding and tubing in the yard, while the
snow lasted! It was often not good
“packing snow”, or enough to play in, and VERY cold, which also gave us extra time
for indoor fun.
We made snowball cake and snow ice cream; played pre-school
board games and home-made fun games together; started our valentines; and began
unwrapping, sorting, chopping, assembling, and melting crayon hearts for our
valentine favors.
We enjoyed Dad’s day at school the first Saturday of the
month, making boats and enjoying treats with Daddy! And then many evenings this
month were spent floating, splashing, and racing our boats in the tub together.
And we made a long-anticipated trip to tour the Washington
Monument later in the month.
It was a chilly, freezing rain kind of morning, but things settled down
for our tour time, and we had a great time checking out the views and learning
about this important monument.
The last snow of the month gave us some really great packing
snow, and we were finally able to construct (with some help) and decorate that
snow fort we’d been dreaming of.
And we visited our friend Zach at his new house! We had a
fun taco bar and gingerbread dessert for dinner, and had a great time exploring
and playing together, and chasing poor Penny, the cat. It was so fun to see Zach and his
family again and celebrate their new home!
What a fun start to our New Year!
Love,
Katharine and Christopher
