Grandparents visit

Doug's parents came to visit to help us eat the strawberries.

RJ: Mommy, Mommy, take a picture of Julia. She looks like Grandmother Chris!

Grandmother Chris and RJ playing with magnatiles and cars.

Strawberry Fields Forever

Julia and Doug stayed home, but Julia wore her strawberry outfit anyway.

The kids...each their own personality! Back: Molly, Michael, Ray, Zach Front: RJ, Ellie, Maggie (Alec really wanted to keep playing!)

RJ checking out the chickens

Molly, Michael, RJ, Ellie, Ray, Maggie, Zach, Missing Alec again

Now, what to do with all these strawberries...(We had a feast with Doug's parents, but I didn't take any pictures of the strawberry dishes.)

Play Time

We decided to check out a new play area in Tysons. The lack of water feature was disappointing on this hot day, but RJ still had fun.

RJ climbing

Doug met us for lunch/ping pong.

RJ attracted an audience with his maneuvers.

Julia hot and happy

Julia Cruisin'

Julia is cruising and ready to walk!

RJ's Last Day of Preschool

On The Move

Now that she can crawl, it hasn't taken Julia long to figure out how to pull herself up on everything.

RJ decided to lock her upstairs. She thought this was a great game.

She is now able to move from the steps to the baby gate and around the door frame to the kitchen.

Pulling up on the chair

May Around the House

As you can see, there is never a dull moment in our house.

RJ hiding in the kitchen shelves

Messy faced Julia

Julia's first ponytail

RJ teaching Julia how to crawl

RJ pretending to teach Julia how to crawl but really just using it as an excuse to crash into her.

RJ blocking the doorway so Julia can't crawl out of the kitchen.

Julia is so happy when Daddy gives her grapefruit.

RJ being silly

The next generation of the Steel Bandits

Magnatile fun

RJ being cute

Julia reading

Julia is 11 months old!

It is getting harder and harder to get Julia to sit still for a picture.

Julia watches RJ's every move and then does her best to imitate him.

RJ decided to jump in to help.

RJ taking a very important phone call during the photo shoot.

The Pit and Memorial Day Fun

RJ and Julia were such good shoppers this morning, they were rewarded with Subway picnic at The Pit (Really awesome, HUGE playground) in Alexandria.

Julia and Sara on the teeter totter

RJ, Sara & Julia having fun

RJ and Julia driving

For Memorial Day, we met our former neighbors for lunch and made a pit stop at the Palisades Sprayground

RJ testing the water (acting like Doug)

Crash landing!

I guess I didn't get a picture of RJ climbing on the rocks and the little girl who tried to tell Doug that RJ couldn't play there because he was too young.

Strawberries!

We decided to make our big garden bigger and turn our smaller garden into a strawberry and rhubarb patch. We were all very excited to taste the strawberries and RJ is such a good helper in the garden.

RJ picking strawberries being careful not to step on any plants.

Four strawberries!

RJ tasting the strawberries

Julia was not so excited about the strawberries probably because she was sitting on the holly branches that had fallen off the tree. OUCH!