visits

the weekend before last we had not one, but two sets of visitors.  my godmother, known to the girls as 'grandma #3', took us to the circus on saturday!  our family friend miranda also came along and treated the girls to these glow sticks (light sabers?  magic wands?  wizard staffs??).  as you can see, they were (and still are) a hit, whatever they are =p

it was a small circus, but the elephants were pretty nifty

hermione, anyone?

sunday morning we visited Fourth Presbyterian Church in bethesda, since we were invited to ben's program director's house for lunch.  of course, he got paged just as we were leaving church, so we dropped him at NIH and headed for the cabin john playground to see if he'd still be able to make it for lunch.  it turned out to be a lovely day to be out:

after lunch, we headed home to await nai nai and ah gong's arrival:

they came bearing books - sure way into chloe's heart ;-)

we got a bit of a late start on monday, but we headed out to the germantown (aka castle and pirate ship) playground, with a few detours on the way to the car:

got it!

soneone got a little sleepy on the way there

nai nai and ah gong snuck out later in the afternoon, and came back with...

woohoo!  we all love it.  and chloe knows all her white keys now!

my parents stayed through tuesday evening to watch chloe's gymnastics class.  more on that another time, but one pic from that night:


chloe, second from the right


we're thankful for loving family!