Another weekend post

Also this weekend ... Aunt C. was visiting. She had a conference to go to in Takoma Park, so she was staying with us to save some money. Fine by us, C4 & Q2 loooooooove her. We didn't see enough of her, but every morning and evening the kids got to see and kiss and color with her. So that was fun.

Saturday was another festival of the building arts at the National Building Museum. Another fun fun fun day!

Q2 was a little grumpy at first, and definitely didn't like the blacksmithing outside. So we breezed by that and went inside, where we split up.

Q2 didn't want her yellow hard hat; she wanted a blue one. She cried at the wood chipping. She cried at the stone carving. She didn't want to wear safety glasses so she could hammer nails. She didn't want to create a nuts & bolts sculpture. But we got to spackling ... and we had found our activity.



I only dragged her away from that activity after somebody came by and said there would be dancing outside. People and machines. Called "Pas de Dirt" by the Liz Lerman Dance Exhange, and set to the music from Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake. So we went out, got good lawn seats and watched the dancing. It made me laugh. It made me cry. I was glad when it was over.

We'd hooked back up with C4 & C39 at this point, and found that C4 had gotten a permit and made a great townhouse:



Q2 saw that and decided the city needed a fountain:



We made some "colorforms" stained glass windows, colored some pictures, and pounded some big big wood:



Then we dragged them away kicking and screaming back to the car and home for lunch and quiet time. That the same as always: not quiet.

So I took them to the park where we met BatQ2: