My Pi Pie

Happy Pi Day!

3.14

Georgetown

Today Paige and I went on an impromptu morning trip to Georgetown (Christen was going to scope out restaurants and I invited myself along). We walked around the main street in Georgetown and stopped and got cupcakes at Georgetown Cupcake (check that off the DC bucket list!).

We took our cupcakes down to the water front and ate them there. Paige loved the candy on top and the pink frosting (she kept saying: "want more pink, please!"), but of course refused to eat any of the cake (she still won't eat cake or bread).

Notice the pink frosting face:

We let the kids run around some on the path by the river.

Then we went down and sat right by the water. The kids were SO excited to see the "birdies!"

Spring Break 2012 (Shenandoah National Park)

Spring Break 2012 was pretty great. Low key and semi-lame, but still great. It's probably our last spring break ever so we wanted to make it awesome. Unfortunately, Jake got sick. Sad. We didn't go anywhere exotic, but we did have some time at home.

Also, we took one day and went to Shenandoah National Park. We really wanted to camp (in fact we packed up the car with all our camping gear...) but it turned out that the campsites weren't open. So we didn't camp (Paige was kind of confused. We had told her we were going camping, so when we got out of the car and were walking the park she kept asking "I camping?"). But we did hike (even though it was pretty windy and cold), drive through the park (which was delightful crowd free) and have a nice picnic lunch. On the way home, Paige feel asleep and slept the entire way home. Quiet bliss!

On the way:

I love the hands buried in her pockets:

Ready to hike:

It was really cold:

Mostly, we just loved having Jake home. With his new job we don't see him as much as we did before, so it was great to have him around. In fact, this was our conversation his first day break at school:

Paige: Daddy?

Heidi: Sorry, Daddy's at school.

Paige: *sigh* He go long time.

We miss having him around!

Dancing with Dad

Sometimes you just have to stop and groove.

Preschool at the Park

One day we went to the park during preschool.

Alex and Henry:

Kate:

Abby:

Gabbi:

Paige:

Henry:

Paige:

Alex watching the construction crew.  He loves anyone with big trucks!

Alex:

What We Saw On Our Walk

We like to take little walks around the our apartment complex.  Paige especially loves going on these little exploration walks.

February Birthdays

Paige and I had birthdays!

My birthday was fantastic. Jake did a really good job taking care of me. He took me out for a morning of lunch and shopping while Paige hung out with friends (thanks, Michelle!). While we were out my wonderful friends went into my apartment and decorated it. I came home to find my living room filled with amazing decorations, complete with my favorite cake in the fridge. Unfortunately, I forgot to take a picture. =(

There were a ton of balloons scattered all over the floor that TERRIFIED Paige. The first day she refused to walk into the room with all the balloons. She asked to be carried across the floor. The next day, she would approach the edge of the room, peek in and make sure she could see where the balloons were before she ran through quickly. She was so relieved when I cleaned up the balloons that she kept saying "mommy clean up balloons!"

Paige loved her birthday the next day. She kept walking around (for several days actually) singing "Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to Paige. Happy birthday to you." She loved opening her presents:

And she loved blowing out her birthday candles. Ever since she saw me blow out my candles and kept asking for the "fire again!" On her birthday we put candles on my half-eaten cake for her to blow out (since I had made her a cake for her party the next day).

Here are the cakes I made for our party:

The ladybug is Paige's cake and she LOVED it. She talked about the "ladybug on cake" for days. Unfortunately, the next day Paige spiked a random fever so we had to cancel the party. Needless to say, I ate a lot of cake over the next few days.

Thanks to everyone for making it such a great birthday!