Painting

We have been painting all the time lately, mainly because it has quickly become Lucy's favorite thing to do. She walks around the house calling "Paintin, Paintin" changing the tones of her voice as if she is calling for a dog. Then while painting she proudly exclaims "I Paintin!!!" Miles enjoys painting also, he has gotten very detailed lately. He has started to tell us what he is painting, the last few things he has painted were a rocket, and a very, very, fast train. I'm excited that they are enjoying art so much, it was my favorite thing to do as a child, any type of creating, and although I have been pregnant for the last 3 years, one day I hope to get back to oil painting.

I love surprises!!!

So the other day I told Stephan I wanted to pick him up from work on Friday and do something fun, this is not so abnormal for us, so he said "OK do you want to go to the park with the kids?" I did not say anything so I guess he thought that was what we would be doing. When I went to pick him up, there were no kids in the car. "where are the kids? Are we going on a date?" I told him yes, we were going on a date, a nice long date. I drove into D.C, with him drilling me the whole way about where we were going and what we were doing, Stephan loves surprises just as much as me, so he was pretty excited. Then I pulled up and parked the car, "This is where we are eating? In a hotel restaurant?" I did not answer but walked to the back of the car where I had a bag packed and our pillows. A huge smile came across his face as he realized we had a night to ourselves and he said "We can sleep as long as we want!" And we did, we walked across the street and ate dinner and then we just stayed in, watched a movie, ...., and slept in! Then we walked around eastern market in the morning and hit up some museums before coming home. It was nice to have a little escape together, and I loved that he had no idea!