Breezy Point, Chesapeake Beach

Maddie's favorite dinner is probaly pizza. She likes all kinds including Bagel Bites. Her favorite is Cetrones! I work 2 nights a week and Maddie is used to having Pizza at least one of those nights. When she wakes up from her nap and asks for me and hears I'm at work. She says, "Daddy, Pizza for dinner, yay!!!" So, pizza AND the beach, lucky girl!

Mi Ma gave Maddie a surprise summer dress and when she pulled it out Maddie said, " OH my goodness!" with hands to her face, " a princess dress!" She quickly put it on and twirled around!

She is enjoying her summer and loving every minute of discovering new fun things to do. She loves the beach. We have been going to a great little beach in Chesapeake Beach. It's perfect. The waves aren't to rough and it relatively shallow. We have mostly gone with Gavin and he said all day, "I lika da beach!!"

Maddie was asking all week, "Can we go to the beach someday?" "Can we go to the beach after nap?" "Can we go the beach soon?" So, I really wanted to take Pete so we made a last minute, grabed a pizza, and had a picnic dinner on the beach! It was fun. When we got there, Maddie was very excited, she looked around and asked, "Where is Gavin ?"(They have their issues...but they do have fun in the water together!)
After swimming, we went for a walk on the pier where the fisherman were fishing. Maddie asked, " I wanta go fishing!" "Can I go fishing too Daddy" Sure one day soon.

Watkins Park

We have been in the middle of a long HOT heat wave! This past Wed the humidity dropped and we got a beautiful day in the high 80's! It felt so great since it has been over 100 with heavy humidity! So we had to take advantage and go to the park! We met my friend Rachel and Mom and Gavin at Watkins Park. The kids LOVED the playground, the train, and the carousel ride!
Gavin was having fun, showing his fun very serious face!

Anticipating the start of the ride!

Pretty girl. When she saw the ride she screamed and ran up to it, so excited to get on!

On the train! We were on the black train, Gavin saw a red one parked and said, "Look, I want to ride the red train.

The conductor was pulling on the loud horn! Gavin covering his ears! He rode a 2nd time.

(Last month)

We went to Watkins Park to check out the "Choo Choo" Train! Madelyn loves trains and we were excited to go ride the train for the first time. There was also a carousel and putt putt. It was about to down pour so we had to fit everything in before we would get soaked!

This was her first ride of the season and she was a little nervous. Love that face! She had a great time and loves Carousel rides now! The train ride was good, right after Maddie's first hit on putt putt it started to pour and we ran to our car! We got pretty wet, and then went to Cetrones for pizza. It was a fun family day.

Katy Perry in Concert!

Anita and I took a much needed mommy night out! We splurged on front row Katy Perry tickets! It was a GREAT concert! Robyn opened for Katy at Merriweather. We had a lot of fun, our feet were crippled the next day from dancing in our platform shoes all night!
LOVE Katy Perry!

Summer by the pool

Bowie Memorial Day Parade

Mary Beth and her girls were visiting MD thanks to Anita flying them down! It was wonderful to see them for almost a month! Memorial Day we went to the Bowie Memorial Parade. It was very HOT! MD humid summer had arrived full force. It was fun the kids had their flags, and loved the marching band, dance teams, and "princess" in the parade! Mary Beth took this awesome photos, thanks MD!

What a lovey dovey moment

The toddler gang