We got the guitar out on Sunday afternoon and had a little sing along. One thing we all love about Paul is all the funny voices and imitations he can do, like the voice of "Batman".
After her long journey from Texas, Dilly seemed ready to relax.
Cecily enjoyed every cuddling opportunity with Aunt Joni and Dilly!
It has been a really relaxing weekend. Due to the Inaguration, we're all home, including all the government workers in the D.C. area, so Rhett is home! Though we are very enthusiastic about the inaguration and inspired by our new president's speech, we're not brave enough to go north on 1-95 today, though we were in D.C. a few weeks ago with Paul and Joni. Paul & Joni's visit was a ray of sunshine in a gray January! Dilly is also an extremely well behaved little Lady - who knew? Ralphie is crazy compared to her. He tried to wrestle her, but she showed her teeth and let Ralphie know she had her personal space!
It was really fun to go with everyone to visit as much as we could on the Mall until an icy cold rain caused us to head for the car. The highlight for me was getting to visit the National Archives for the first time and seeing the original documents of our nation. As I was getting the van around traffic to pick everyone up, I accidently pulled into one of the White House entrances and a large protest of Palestine/Israel, and was pulled over by police. He said "Do you see all those secret service and police over there with guns ma'am? They are getting a little nervous because you're parked in the White House entrance. I couldn't see anything through the rain, so I apologized, and pulled out just as Paul, Joni, Madison, and Livi ran up and opened the door. It was also fun to watch Paul & Joni see things for the first time with their enthusiastic love of learning.
We have some great leaders in this country, don't we?
