OK, now let us go back to last month (I am SO behind!)... Oma & Opa came up for a visit and James' birthday/Father's Day (same day this year). The National Portrait Gallery was on our "must do before we leave DC" list so we hit that after a delicious lunch at Gordon Biersch.
James is REALLY into "smushing pennies." I actually own about 10 years of smushed pennies and a penny passport so it must be in his blood.
Mesmerized by books and snacks and TV.
James wanted to go to "the Air & Space Museum, but the OTHER Air & Space Museum" for his birthday. Roughly translated, this is the Goddard Space Center which we had already been to once. I warned everyone about its underfunded-ness and limited working exhibits, but everyone actually had a good time and Molly sat through a movie, on a spinning globe. Wonders never cease.
This is the real reason James wanted to go there. A space capsule with all sorts of knobs and switches and a window "to look for aliens." Uh, too much TV, anyone?
Oma in space...
Molly takes in some galaxies...
...and gets head lice. (JUST KIDDING!)
James opens a well-themed gift: a solar system that hangs on his ceiling complete with orbiting planets and a moon that goes through all the lunar phases.
BUT the highlight of the birthday gifts... this old-school Pac-Man video game "system" from our friends, the Bruces. He was hooked.
it was actually very popular with everyone....
and I mean, everyone.
Happy birthday little buddy.
(and thanks for the visit Oma & Opa!)
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