Summer Recap (Maryland Part 2)

Friday we spent the morning at Padonia Park with Trish, Kelly, and kids.  Unfortunately the water wasn't warm, but I think the adults were the only ones that really noticed.  After lunch at Chick Fil A and quick naps we headed to Evan's birthday party.

Evan in the middle, next to Tessa.

 Balloon time

 Here is Caroline...being a handful...as usual.

 Westley

 Calvin

 Calvin and Tessa

 Unfortunately Tessa "hurt" her leg while jumping on something.  She reacted poorly, I'm going to guess from all the over stimulation and lack of sleep.  We thought we were going to have to leave the party early, but she thankfully pulled it together so we could stay.

The next morning we headed to Dunkin Donuts for munchkins and then met Trish and her boys at Oregon Ridge playground.  We were there by 9:00...I'm pretty sure thats a first.  Although the hotel suite was spacious it was still very difficult with Caroline.  She could open all the doors, and was found repeatedly with her hand in the toilets, GROSS.  So we tried to spend as little time in our room as possible.  After playing at the playground for quite a while we headed back to wash up and get changed, and then we were off to Charlie's party.

Charlie had a really cool party, they had a guy come with all kinds of animals.  Unfortunately I didn't get to see them all because Caroline was once again being a handful.  But thankfully Linsey's yard has enough going on that I could easily distract her.  The animals I did see were: bunny, duck, turtle, snake, ferret, and spider.  I'm sure there were many more that I forget or didnt see.

 The birthday boy shaking the ferret.

 Cupcakes!

 Kelly and Avery

 Daddy and Caroline

 Later that night we our old babysitter Kate come and watch the kids so we could go out to dinner with the adults.  I'm dressed, and the kids are watching TV.  Pretty much any picture where they are sitting still involves the tv.

The next morning Tessa had one of her friends from nursery school, Erin, come and swim at the hotel pool with us.  We then got a quick lunch, not Chick Fil A much to Tessa's sadness because they aren't open on Sunday, and started our drive home.  We will never try to drive home on a Sunday in the summer again.  Traffic, traffic, traffic.

We had such a great time in Maryland, and we were lucky enough to see all of our friends.  Some of them we only got to see briefly, but it was still better than nothing.  We are hoping to be back to visit sometime in October.

Oh, and while we were there we checked on our townhouse.  The renters are taking a good job of it, so hopefully they will decide to sign a lease for another year.  We also got to see our old neighbors which Tessa loved.  She really missed Mr Mark and his dogs. 

It was very interesting to me what Tessa remembered and what she didn't.  She remembered most of the people from Maryland and their houses, playgrounds etc.  But she didn't remember our old neighborhood.  Couldn't pick our house out from the rest of the townhouses.  She forgot about the elementary school that we probably went to a couple hundred times to go on the playground.