The week after Christmas has always been one of my favorites. The hustle and bustle of Christmas is over and we usually hang out and try all of the new toys and games. This year we played, built, painted, bounced, rolled, jumped, relaxed and did quite a few fun things together.
We made and painted a volcano
And then read a book on volcano’s and watched ours erupt!
We created a fish with Ethan’s new marble run and only lost one marble while playing with it.
We raced cars
We went to the bounce house one morning, Rolly Pollies with Lucas the next, saw two movies with the boys, played with our new shark, which by far is the coolest toy ever!
We opened tried out and built so many fun new things. It was nice spending good quality time with the boys. Mike and I even got out for a great date night and a movie that was not rated PG.
I took Christmas down on New Year’s Day while Mike did our grocery shopping and then on Monday we enjoyed our last family day of the week with a trip to the National American History Museum in DC.
The kids loved the metro ride
I didn’t snap too many pictures, but we had a great time exploring the museum and the kids favorite was seeing the Star Spangled Banner Flag
This is Jax in front of Andrew Jackson’s uniform. He recognized his name and wanted a picture.
And in case you are wondering, no he was named after Andrew Jackson.
While we were busy there was still a lot of relaxing going on.
More for some than others.
It was a great fun filled family week and it was so hard to send the kids back to school and daycare yesterday.
