The month of December ended with a fun flurry of activity with lots of sweet times with my brother, a few post-Christmas "Christmas" activities, a special daddy/daughters date to the Air and Space Museum in Dulles, and some New Year's Eve celebrating.
The girls weren't so sure, but it was fun for the rest of us!
Enjoying one of the many awesome books Uncle Dan had for the girls.
This one is about the Canadian astronaut, Chris Hadfield, and his trips to the moon!
Astronaut Lilee!
As usual, the sloths and desert cat were favorites and Maelee loved the reptile exhibit. The next day, we went to the National Harbor as another favorite holiday tradition. Lilee was tickled to ride the train in the Gaylord Hotel and both girls enjoyed rides on the carousels!
At the end of the week, Steve took the girls to the Air and Space Museum in Dulles. It was quite a memorable day for all of them as they saw a cool 3-D space movie, a real space shuttle, AND the plane my Too-Dad flew in his Navy days!
Every time Lilee saw the astronaut above, she'd yell, "That's me!"
On the 31st, we went into D.C. for the "Noon Yard's Eve" celebration at Yard's park. There were lots of activities for the girls to enjoy with a big balloon drop at 12:00 noon. Not surprisingly, the favorite was the face painting at the end (even though mama waited in line almost an hr while they went around to other activities!), but Lilee a little train ride in the beginning while Maelee was playing "assistant" to this plate spinner...
Chocolate chip pancakes make into "2017" and hard-boiled egg "stars."
Final end to the new year?
Another lost tooth!
More pics from that last week:
https://pix.sfly.com/OVUk30
2016 was a pretty good year for our family and as we look ahead to 2017, our focus continues to be bringing home child #3! This time last year, we had just felt the confidence to pursue adoption domestically, but little did we know then how God would change those plans of ours... We are now full steam ahead to adopt from South Africa and that day can't come soon enough. Here's hoping this time next year we will be SO much closer!!!
