Uncle Pat and Brendan
More Beach Highlights
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- Uncle Mike and Brendan
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- Checking out the waves
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- Myriam runs in the surf
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- Therese working hard on her sand fortress
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- Walking in the cold, wet sand
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- Enjoying the sunshine
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- Brendan loves the shore!
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- Asleep on Uncle John
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- Brendan napped on Nan for over 2 hours!
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- Myriam takes a break
Budding Photographer
Kisses for the little man
Mommy and Baby B
These pictures were taken by Therese. She enjoys capturing moments and is always asking to use our camera. I hardly ever have pictures of me with the kids so I appreciate an extra photographer in the family! (Now who will take pictures of me with Therese?)
Our new beach friend
Little Turtle
Nan found this baby turtle in the driveway of the shore house on Memorial Day weekend. The kids loved him and of course wanted to keep him. Aunt Sue discovered it is illegal to capture box turtles- not that I was really consdering keeping him. However their joy over this little guy has me contemplating some sort of aquarium animal (fish, turtle, hermit crab). Something very small that will not die if we leave it alone for a day or so.
Therese watching the turtle crawl all over her
Happy Mother’s Day!
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- The card my kids made me (with some help from Pop)
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- The reason we celebrate Mother’s Day
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- My busy Brendan
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- The girls at the Franciscan Monastery
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- Mommy and her three beauties taken in the beauty of the Monastery
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- Myriam and Therese
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- The chapel
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- The gardens
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- Another view of the chapel (with the Monastery in the background)
Brookside Gardens
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- Therese, Katia, Myriam and Nicky
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- Katia (taken by Therese)
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- On the log
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- Balancing
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- The labrynth
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- Moving the sand
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- More tactile experience
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- Myriam
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- The turtles
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- Sun bathing turtles
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- In the trees
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- By a pond
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- Examining the water garden
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- Myriam smelling the tulips
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- More scents
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- The girls smell the flowers
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- Walking along
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- Soaking up beauty
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- The garden
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- More flowers
We are so blessed to live within walking distance of Brookside Gardens. These gardens are part of Wheaton Regional Park which is a massive expanse of protected land in Silver Spring. It is an amazing gift to have this land so near to DC. Every time we walk through the park or the gardens we experience new wildlife. We are always seeing deer, turtles, ducks, and geese, not to mention butterflies, bugs and birds of all kinds. The spring is amazing over at Brookside- new flowers and new baby animals everywhere. We love watching the geese nest and then returning a few weeks later to see the babies swimming along behind their parents. These pictures are from a recent walk with our good friends the Healy’s. (For some odd reason Brendan and their baby Anna are not in any pictures- sorry!)
