April and Washington DC

April was a busy month. I have a bunch of pictures to that I wanted to post to be able to keep somewhere. We have been starting to spend more time up on our roof as the weather gets nicer. It's so nice to go up there and grill, play in the pool and just hang out. The girls love going up there and playing. It's been so nice to have a mini "backyard" to escape to. One evening the sun was going down and I loved the lighting so I took some pictures of the girls.

We love Charley's teacher so much! She is so good with her class. When I first was looking into putting Charley in preschool I was able to go around to all the other preschool classrooms and just really liked Ms. Viard's class the best. She was really warm and kind with the kids and had a Montessori teaching style. She has been so good for Charley this year and has helped a lot educationally and just emotionally. Charley gets frustrated if she isn't able to get something right away and Ms. Viard was able to help her with this and help her learn to practice practice practice.

                                                

One day we went to the Natural History Museum with friends and explored the "senses" exhibit. It was really cool and went through each sense and how our brain uses it. 

More pictures: Preschool volcanoes, gymnastics for Charley and Washington D.C for Easter. We decided to take a road trip down to DC and house swap with a guy that wanted to come here with his girlfriend. It worked out so well! He lived in Chevy Chase and its as such a cute little neighborhood where he lived. We ate out at Cava twice! So good!! It has the best salads and hummus. And then we went into the city and explored the monuments, went to the National Geographic museum to see the "Tomb of Christ" exhibit which was fascinating! They replicated the tomb through a 3-D virtual tour. We had Easter at the house we were staying at and had a relaxing morning and then went to the Temple that evening to walk around the grounds and see the Visitors Center. We also walked around Georgetown which is always fun!