Sightseeing...

A fun morning in Old Town Alexandria...

Did you notice Antoine and Zelie having a conversation with a stranger at Starbucks...

Em was brave enough to take the 4 kids to the zoo by herself!!


Em and Carlo spent a couple of days touring DC by bus first and then by bike... 

 

Enjoying Mount Vernon and its history...

They ended their stay with a fun-full 2 day trip to New York... You don't come all the way from France without discovering NYC, right?

Back in time...

Someone told me a few months ago about Claude Moore Colonial Farm in McLean and when I look it up online I discovered that there was a Summer Festival while Em and Carlo were going to be here...

We all had a wonderful time discovering the tradesmen and learning how they used to make soap, baskets, whool, ropes...etc.

 

 

 

 

 

More Summer fun...

A morning at the pool... no better place when it is 105 degrees!


Great Falls

Bonding time with Zelie and silliness...

Bastille Day... French BBQ!!

T-Bone Party!

A HOT day in Annapolis!

We spent our first Saturday with my family showing them Annapolis and tasting its famous Maryland Crab cakes! We then headed to Sandy Point for a super fun afternoon at the beach...

 

The 4 cousins playing together in the sand

Adam is a fish in the water!

Antoine hesitant at first decided to get into the water and had a blast with Adam

Zelie posing like only a girl can do!

Victor had no apprehension of the beach... he loved the sand and the water  too!

 

Celebrations!

Emmanuelle, Carlo and Zelie had barely arrived with Adam that we started the celebrations of the 4th of July!!

After an American feast with Hamburgers, tri-color salad, corn of the cob and giant festive cookie pie, we headed to DC to watch the fireworks on the Mall... I was quite hesitant taking our young kids to the crowd not knowing how late we would be getting back home. Mark convinced me that we had to do it since it would be the only chance for my family to see the fireworks in DC!

It was definitely worth going!

 

Mark and the boys had purchased some fireworks so we waited until the next evening to light them up...

Experiment!

My friend Sharon asked me if I could do a series of pictures of her baby boy Jackson in our backyard with a cute bucket filled with bubble batch...

It did not turn out the way we thought it would!! =)

But Victor was very interested in the bucket and started playing with the water. Once he was soaking wet, I decided to remove his clothes and try a serie of pictures with him in the bucket...

I love these pictures!! Thank you Sharon for the idea!! =)

And now... Superman is here!

 

 

 

Welcome to Cub scouts!

 

Adam is so excited to be starting Cub Scouts. 

He had his first meeting right before leaving for France. 

Here he is in his Cub Scout attire!

Precious memories...

Victor and Papili
Victor asked to wear my hair do... I promise!!
That gave me a glimpse of what a little Taylor girl would look like! =)

The boys wanted to show Aunt Karen Babbling beauty - but Victor fell in the  water... !

The boys earned another outing from doing their chores
TUTTI FRUITI!

Reading LE LOUP!

Watching Rugby...