West Chester and the Brandywine Passport...aka most of August

We have been exploring the Brandywine Valley. After the Delaware Children's Museum and the Brandywine River Museum we managed to hit up some other area attractions. We have done a great job goofing off before the start of the semester demands otherwise. The other good news is that there are a ridiculous number of fantastic attractions right around where we live. First we went to the Smith Playground in Philadelphia.

 Then we went to Longwood Gardens.

Admiring the Italian Garden

Evelyn sizing up the topiary.

Festival of Fountains

In the Conservatory

 

We also went to the Delaware Natural History Museum.

 

 We went to the Delaware Art Museum and enjoyed the Labyrinth.

Sydney was pretty proud of herself for getting to the middle first!

Eventually we all made it!

 We went to Winterthur and visited the Enchanted Woods (children's garden).

Not surprisingly, the girls enjoyed the Touch it! room a bit more than the "look with your eyes" house tour.

 We went to the Hagley Musem ("where the DuPont story begins").

 Scientists in the making?

 Our three little astronauts!

 Bottle rocket!

We even managed to get to a Blue Rocks (minor league Kansas City Royals affiliate) game.

Sydney posing with Rocky. Evelyn was (understandably) a little unnerved by the mascot.

There were 3 on the bed and the little one said...

Juliet rolled over for the first time today!

Much needed summer update

We've done a few things in the past month or so...

Sydney graduated from The Children's Center

Nana and Papa were in attendance at the graduation and enjoyed being charmed by Juliet

As you can see from this photo, one of our children gets her sense of spatial relations from her Dad and one of our children gets her sense of spatial relations from her Mom!

Our moving party was combined with a perpetual playdate and we managed to get the first few blueberries before we moved!

Don't worry, we still fit a few more things in after this photo was taken (think: vacuum cleaner)!

I got rear-ended mid-move. Thankfully everyone is fine and the car will be repaired. In the meantime, we are living large in a Chevy Impala!

The Munz Family

Grandma and Grandpa Munz with their grandchildren

Moving in to our new home in Pennsylvania! Special thanks to our "piano movers" - inclines make things easier, right?

Juliet's baptism with godparents Matt, Julie, Catherine and Bo!

Juliet and her grandparents

Uncle Sayed with Zakareya, Aunt Rebecca, Grandpa and Aunt Rachel

Great Uncle George and Great Aunt Lorraine

All 5 of us were baptized in this gown!

Rides from cousin Donovan

Pulling Daddy's leg...literally

Juliet meeting her great grandmother for the first time!

Lots of Fauchers visiting Great Grandma

Juliet's first baseball game! Joshua and Juliet looking on as the other big and little cousins run the bases!

Crossing home plate!

The Faucher Family with Paws and Sox

She sleeps, she smiles, she spits up...and we love her!

Creating masterpieces at the Delaware Children's Museum

Getting their heart rates up!

Juliet joins her Dad and sisters for a dance party...think Gangnam-style!

More fun at the Children's Museum

Cow statue at the Brandywine River Museum (the girls' first art museum!)

Posing with the pig statue