Air and Space museum

On a cold weekend with the first snow of the season we made a trip to the Air and Space museum out by the Washington Dulles International airport. It has lots of space to run around and lots of airplanes, rockets and other things to see.

Fall Fest

Our neighbor invited Mia to come along for a fall festival at the Ft. Myer base which is just a short drive from our place. Mia enjoyed most the scarecrows.

The new bike

This weekend Mia got her first bike and she is really enjoying it. The first thing she wanted to do when she got up Saturday morning was to take it for a ride in the hallways of our building. We also took it to a park for picnic in the evening.


Mia also took her new bike to the Oktoberfest at the preschool

At the Zoo

On a Sunday morning with wonderful fall weather we headed to the zoo again. One of the first stops was the kid's farm with all the animals Mia likes. But then she was a bit scared of the two cows who were kind of big and rather posed with a card board "moo moo' later.

Thee was also a great rain forest exhibit called Amazonia. In a aquarium Mia could see fish and turtles. There were also colorful frogs and many bugs. With a microscope Mia could take a closer look.
Of course she also enjoyed the elephants and other animals

Potluck

Every few weeks we meet with other parents from our building for a potluck dinner. In the summer we meet at the pool but when the pool season our get together is in the common room next to the lobby.
The common room has a big TV which can keep the children entertained when needed.

The adults were more interested in the food and the wine

Mia and Jacob were the youngest

Children's Museum Richmond

On an unusually cold and rainy weekend we escaped south to Richmond. After spending Saturday afternoon in a nature park we checked out the children's museum downtown on Sunday. It was really a fun place for Mia with lots of things to see and to play with.

She really enjoyed the little grocery store where the cash register made a "beep" sound when scanning a new item. Sometimes she had return an item to the shelf though:

There was also a little TV studio where she could read the evening news with papa.

A new colleague needed some help:

Mia also drove the ambulance:

For teh creative side of her there was a small theater for some dancing and some puppets