visitor #6

2 days after coming home from our time in ID, my baby brother came out to DC to visit us!

we went into the city a few times which after the first attempt i was proud of him for giving it another chance. haha we visited the national archives, the american history museum, the air & space museum, the natural history museum, the sculpture gardens, walked past the white house, & were able to tour the martin luther king, jr. exhibit on its very first day open. they haven't even had the grand opening yet. it was quite cool. i made michael take several clever & embarrassing poses all day so he retaliated by claiming to be the girl's "papi" & lying about his age. too funny.

we also went into old towne alexandria & sat in george washington's old pew at christ's church, walked the harbor, & ate the number one best ice cream/frozen custard i've ever had in my life. michael is to ice cream & nike as i am to yellow & lincoln. & he gushed about this ice cream. mission accomplished.

we went on a bike ride around town; hit a nursery & a little market & binged on flavored honey sticks, visited the water fountain ellers has been dying to see up close, & ran around the park.

at night we watched movies & i bet i made over 100 cookies while michael was here. nutella cookies & oreo crumb cookies and michael ate roughly 80. in 2 days. & then complained on day 3 that i hadn't made a batch of a new fun cookie for him to snarf. haha.

i also let him watch beauty & the beast with ellery. this was a big deal as i have a phobia about the princess market eating my daughters but i'm trying not to mess my kid's up going too far the other direction. i seriously push every other disney movie but the princess ones. which michael pointed out is kind of sad because a few of my own favorites are disney princess movies. sometimes i feel like i'm going to screw my kids up just trying too hard not to screw them up. ya know?

we have so much fun with michael, being loud & quoting movies & making fun of each other. it was nice having michael to ourselves for a bit.