Fourth of July and Rosalyn 15 weeks

Welcome to summer!  Mollie has been having a really fun time with outdoor play this summer.  We've been practicing our selfies.

 Auntie Margie sent Mollie a bunch of candy and stickers when Mollie was feeling a little under the weather.  Mollie LOVED it, especially the candy necklace.

 We had a busy but nice Fourth of July weekend.  On the actual fourth, we went to a parade downtown and saw the floats.  A bit of a random assortment of performers, but we had a good time.

 Strawberry Shortcake had a tough time getting up and going.

 But Mollie and Louie had no problems at all.

 Rosalyn slept through the parade but woke up in time for the Folk Life Festival.  This is an annual festival in DC and Louie has gone every year that I've known him.  It's usually very hot, but this year the weather was nice and the two countries featured were Kenya and China.  We had a great time watching the dragon cart in the China display and the dancers in the Kenya area.

 We watched the fireworks from the roof of my office.  Mollie wasn't so in to the waiting but she was REALLY into the fireworks.  She was exclaiming "wow!" "pretty!" "OOOOH!" the whole time.  It was very cute.

 We had dinner with Louie's cousin Eliza, I missed the photo of Rosalyn and Eliza!  I can't believe I did that!  A little Rosalyn update - she is doing great.  She adjusted really well to the daycare, they love her and she seems to love it there too.  She's a happy go lucky kind of girl - really amused by her sister.  She laughed during the fireworks, every time there was a boom.  She's smiling a lot more now, takes her bottle pretty easily.  She hasn't shown much interest in rolling over but loves reaching for and kicking at toys.  She loves her mobile in the crib and pretty much every toy we give her, especially Sophie the giraffe and a little ballerina mouse rattle she got as a gift in california.  She's putting EVERYTHING in her mouth.  And she can kind of sleep in her crib at the moment, which is nice!

 Mollie is four going on fourteen.  She was giving me this stare down because it was taking too long for her food to arrive at the table.  Shortly after this the waiter smiled at me and she said "he's smiling at you because he wants to marry you, but you can't marry him because you're married to daddy."  OY!

 We rounded out our weekend at Chuck E. Cheese for Rina's 5th birthday.  The kids had a good time and the adults actually had a lot of fun playing the video games and especially skee ball.