Taking some time this morning to look through all the pictures on my camera...500 of them, in just 4 days...and to get a post or two done while Jeff and I are enjoying some down time out in the Shenandoah Valley.
Our first day in DC, we were at the Boyd's house and they were letting their butterflies go free!
Opening up the butterfly house and getting them to come out was more of a task than any of us thought it would be.
Inna had to keep scooping them up and they would drop or fly back down to the bottom of the house.
Inna, passing one of the butterflies to Lexie.
I loved the girls' dresses...with the butterflies, they were a beautiful, coordinating background.
Sissi and Lexie are looking for the butterfly that flew into the bushes.
Holding the butterfly on her hand.
Some of the spectacularly colored flowers in our friend's yard.
What a vibrant yellow!
Our outing for the day was visiting the American Girl Doll store. I think that MY favorite doll is Rebecca. Sissi told me that maybe I can get her for my birthday!
The boys made a trip to the Lego store and the Game Stop.
We had lunch at American Girl as well. It was Sissi's first lunch with her doll Caroline that she got for Christmas back in '12.
Sissi loves the Felicity movie (about the Revolutionary War), and so this is Caroline (who is from 1812 and also has an "issue" with the British) putting her tea cup upside down, her spoon on top, and we spent the next several minutes, in our best British accents saying, "I shall have no tea."
The meals are one standard price and they come with your choice of an appetizer and a main dish. Sissi chose Bavarian pretzels with dipping sauce. She ordered the "mini picnic" for her lunch...it was a mini hamburger, a mini hotdog, and a fruit kabob.
My appetizer choice was spinach, cheese, and artichoke dip with pita bread. My main course was the salmon with roasted baby potatoes.
Sissi had some birthday money from my parents and she spent it on two little kittens for her doll. Caroline now has a cow named Garnet and two cats.
At the end of our lunch, a mother-daughter picture.
It was a lovely memory and my sweet girl kept telling me how this was so special and thank you and she'll never forget it!
Mission accomplished!
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