An Evening at the Iwo Jima Park

Saturday evening we packed our picnic basket and Mia's bike and headed to the park by the Iwo Jima memorial. The tulips by the Netherlands Carillon there are in bloom and there is always a great view on Washington DC at sunset.

When Ji took pictures of the flowers Mia wanted to pose for a few photos as well

After our picnic it was time to get out the Frisbee :

Frying Pan Farm

Mia wanted to make another trip to the Frying Pan Farm which is a park run by the Fairfax county. We went one time last November and she remembered the toy tractors, the animals, the carouse, the playground and the ice cream from the county store.
Since it was a sunny day we though it was a good opportunity to check out the farm on a spring day when there were lots of new baby animals to see

First Mia headed to sit on a toy tractor

 There were chicken

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Sheep with lambs

A real tractor

Calfs

Baby pigs

 Some good ice cream

And we checked even out a dog show that we found on far end of the park

Hannah's and Maya's visit

On Saturday Hannah, her older sister Maya and her parents came over for dinner. Since Hanna's mother likes German food we had Nürnberger sausages, potato salad, different German beers, Götterspeise and other German goodies.
The girls had their own table

Maya liked the quiche Lorraine with spinach the best.
Everybody liked Mr Mimi who came a a bit later from his  hiding spot

After dinner Erika and Jacob came over and invited everyone to come over for movie night.

Doris' Baby Shower

We drover over to German town for Doris' bay shower which was really big with lots of friends and family.

Mia liked the desert section the most

Mia and Mr. Mimi

Mia likes to spend some quality time with Mr. Mimi on the sofa

Erika's Birthday

This year Erika had a small birthday party in the common room with all her friends from the building and Luca's cousin who is visiting from California

It was a beautiful warm day that almost felt like summer.
Everybody tried some baseball and Mia did prettywell

Something interesting on an iPhone

The highlight was the birthday muffin with seven candles

Story Time

For story time Mia set up all her animals and her baby