Keller Twins

And suddenly, the end of summer is upon us!

After returning home from our trip to Ohio, we jumped right into preparing for birthday celebrations and back-to-school preparations! But we also made sure to enjoy our last few weeks of summer break together too!

Can you believe it? We’re three years old! We celebrated a few different ways this year. First, of course, we got to travel to see our families in Ohio, who we miss so much, and really enjoyed sharing our birthday anticipation there. J

At home, Mommy took us to a local “cupcakery”, to pick out, decorate, and enjoy eating cupcakes of our choice. We’d been talking about what kind and color of cake we’d like for our 3^rd birthday for quite a while, so this was a fun way to let everyone choose something they liked! We also got to pick out flavors to take home for our actual birthday!

We got to invite our friends to play with us at the park for our birthday. We shared breakfast treats, made butterflies, and played with friends from our multiples and Vienna playgroups. We had a great time playing, and it was extra special for us to invite our friends to celebrate with us!

We celebrated with a family dinner out to a new restaurant, where we enjoyed quite a variety of appetizers (including a huge container of popcorn!), and a surprise birthday ice cream to blow out and eat.

Then on the morning of our birthday, the kitchen was all decorated for our big day, with the balloons and streamers we helped Mommy pick out. We also were greeted by a special balloon that sang “Happy Birthday” when you tap it. After breakfast, we got to go on our very first boat ride! Our boat, the Miss Mallory, took us from Alexandria to Georgetown, and then back again. We got to eat lunch while seeing the monuments, explored the boat, and saw lots of planes take off and land at the airport. What a fun experience! And that night, we enjoyed decorating our own cupcakes for dessert and blowing out those candles one more time.

Amongst all the preparations, we made the most of our last weeks of summer break together. We continued to enjoy play dates, puppet shows, trips to Frying Pan Park, story times, concerts, and even a Mommy and Me class at Whole Foods. We visited lots of favorite and new playgrounds… Wolf Trails, Meadowlane, Clemyjontri, Cabin John, Algonquian Park, Glyndon, Great Falls, and Holy Comforter – where we met some of our new classmates in Mrs. Shoemaker’s class at HCEP! We tried out a cool swimming pool with kid-friendly water attractions, visited the fish and frogs at Meadowlark Gardens, rode the neat train at Cabin John Park, enjoyed a picnic at Gravelly Point, and saw the new elephant exhibit at the National Zoo.

And finally, we spent the last week of the month getting to know Miss Kristy, who will be playing with us when we’re not in preschool this year. We also love playing with her kids, Jordan, Emma, and baby Alex. How fun it is for us to have an older “sibling” and a baby in our lives, as well as another new friend who will be going to our new school! We had so much fun our first week together, trying out dancing, swimming, Messy Art Day, and bowling. We’ll still miss Mommy when she’s at work, but we are so excited about this great start for our new school year!

We can’t wait to share what happens next! Until then, here are our favorite photos from this month. We hope you enjoy them!

Love,

Katharine and Christopher