Mount Vernon

On Friday we decided to drive down to Mount Vernon with the kids. It was going to be such a beautiful day that we couldn't resist (mid 50's in late December isn't too bad). It was all decorated for Christmas complete with a camel. The camel really liked Miriam and wanted to kiss her, Miriam kept telling Michael to scoot back. Miriam and Simon loved seeing all the animals. The line to actually take a tour of the house was over an hour wait so we passed (we have a year pass and figure we will go back when it isn't so busy) on the tour and decided to check out the other houses around it. Miriam kept reading the signs saying, "George Washington..." and made up things he did. Kind of funny how she picked up on the name so fast. Before we headed home we decided to let Miriam run around for a while. We took a bunch of pictures and even let Miriam take a picture of us. It looks great, if you don't mind a blurry picture! Getting out of the house as a family was great... we sure love having Michael home. (Yes, we know Simon is wearing pink mittens. We lost one of his mittens earlier this week and so pink is all we had. Michael took them off before I took a picture saying he didn't want the pink mittens in the picture. Little did he know I already took one earlier.)