On Sunday morning we meet some friends at the Washington monument to fly our kites and have a little picnic.
With a nice breeze from the south and warm weather it was a good day to fly a kite.
For Erika's sixth birthday we all got together at a playground in our neighborhood. There was pizza and of course a birthday cake. After checking out the construction site across the street some children posed for a group photo but Chloe changed her mind about being a part of this:
One of the highlight of the party were of course all the things to do on the playground
Mia's favorite pajama is the orange one with the pumpkins. The other day she made a small "mistake" though and mixed up the pants and the top
On a warm spring evening we headed to the tidal basin to see the cherry blossom and have a picnic
For Mia it was the first trip since she was three months old since the weather didn't cooperate last year and the year before
And judging from the pictures we too three years ago Mia was mostly asleep during this first excursion to the blooming cherry trees
This time she was very much awake and mostly worried about finding an ice cream truck. Unfortunately we didn't find one and the ice cream stand by the metro station on the way back was sold out due to the unusually warm weather
But luckily we had an emergency supply of chocolate ice cream in the freezer when we cam eback home.
We used the evening for a nice picnic by the Jefferson memorial and enjoyed the sunset.
Another hit was the Pinata
Mia gave it a try as well
The children also lined up to get special balloons pumped up
After pumping them up they would not be closed and when the air went back out they could fly really high. Quite a few got stuck up in trees. These balloons were so popular the the balloon man who was pumping them up was busy for hours.
We had forgotten about Mia's Chinese dress from Shanghai: When she got it more than a year ago it was too big. When Mia now rediscovered it in the closet it was almost too small
