we have been super busy here lately. this week i took the boys to see the blue angels air show as a part of the naval academy commissioning week festivities. frankly i had *very* low expectations and it turned out being one of the best times i have had with my boys ever. it was a great day! we went to a friends house that morning for a playdate and lunch, with plans to travel on to the blue angels in a caravan. we quickly realized that parking was going to be a challenge, but made the best of it. we fit an suv and a minivan in one spot that had been passed over by many cars. its all that mothers of multiples training i suppose! so we packed the little ones in the strollers and headed for the severn river. we probably walked at least 1.5 miles to find seats, mostly uphill, and f. was a real trooper. he was glad to sit down, and enjoy the reward of a yummy snoball.
no sooner were the snoballs gone when fat albert made his appearance. shortly followed by the blue angels themselves. f. was beside himself with excitement. it is moments like that when i love, love, love being his mom. k. was all about "da pa, da pa" as well. translation: the plane. even m., my little timid one, was enjoying himself. that is right up until one of the blue angels came close enough that we could tell his eyes were brown. m. then pulled his sun shade over his head on the stroller and freaked the ef out. k. kept pulling m.'s shade up and trying to get him to watch the show. it was actually pretty cute to watch k. trying to convince m. to have fun. but alas m. remained unconvinced and eventually fell asleep mid airshow! anyone who has been to an airshow in person will recognize this as a feat in and of itself - sleeping through an airshow! we left just before the show ended to try and beat a bit of the crowd, which really worked out well. again f. was a total rockstar on the long walk back to our cars. later when j. asked f. to recount his favorite parts of the air show he told two stories. one about the time the jets flew right into the sun and didnt burn up and fall out of the sky. and the second about the time that one jet flipped upside down and landed on the top of the other jet and they didnt burn up and fall out of the sky. 5 year old perspective, its something to behold. we finished the day off by hosting one of the midshipman we sponsor and his father for dinner. it was a perfect day!
the next day the five of us got up early and headed over to see some friends on the eastern shore and go strawberry picking. it was a fun event. i think m. was probably the biggest fan and pretty much ate his way from one end of the field to the other. he started off just picking anything off the plants and eating whatever he could shove in his mouth. but by the time we finished filling our pint baskets, m. was getting a little more selective and eating only the red ones and leaving the hulls and stems behind as mulch. all the kids and grownups were sticky sweet when we returned to the farm stand to make our other purchases. f. discovered some delicious cantaloupe being sampled there and could have eaten an entire melon on his own. he finally agreed to take two home with us, and leave some samples for the rest of the patrons. we scrubbed everyone down the best we could and treated the kids, and frankly the grownups too, to a delicious italian lunch. the kids were surprisingly well behaved given that there were 6 kids and only 4 grownups. k. had a lot of fun as well and insisted on wearing both a baseball cap and a plastic firemans hat for most of the days events. he only relinquished the hat when i agreed to carry his pint of berries inside of it. i dont blame him, the berries were delicious and well worth protecting!
the next day j. and i got up early and headed back to the naval academy to attend the graduation. it was the first time either of us was ever lucky enough to hear a sitting president speak in person. i was super excited to get tickets to the event and hear obama deliver the commencement address. he is so charismatic and i really enjoyed the whole event. it was an amazing ceremony filled with tradition. however, given the fact that we were roasting in the sun in something like the 4th to the last row in the upper, upper, uppermost level of the sunfilled stadium, j. was quickly able to talk me into cutting out early when we realized they were going to call each of the 1000 midshipman by name to walk across the stage and receive their well earned diploma. i had really wanted to take a picture of them throwing their covers in the air, but settled on going out to lunch with my hubby instead.
there is more to share and i am overdue for a capturing time post which i will try to get to in a few days. remind me to tell you about f.s report card and k.s new words...
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