So, our trip to Maryland was a blast! It was truly exhausting, but we had so much fun. I'm starting with the middle of our trip because all the pictures I took at the Merkel house are now of Facebook, since I only had one SD card at that time.
Molly thought it was just wonderful to find that Granny was a permanent fixture at Cooke House! She made poor Granny draw on the MagnaDoodle til she was seeing happy faces in her sleep! She also wore a butterfly net on her head for approximately 75% of her trip.
The day after we arrived at Grandma and Grandpa's, we went to the Archbishop's Beginning of the Year Homeschool Mass. It just so happened that the power was out in the Cathedral, so we had Mass outside with a wonderful group of homeschooling families, and then we lit up out of there in search of food! We came across Poulet in Greenspring Station and stuffed ourselves. In honor of the Archbishop, of course.
Ben loved Poulet!
On Friday, the girls and I met Emily and Carsen at Piney Run. Molly had a massive fall and scared the poop out of me, and the trip was cut short by an intense hunger for pizza, but we made it work.
Look, it's Carsen! This is actually all we saw of Carsen for the ENTIRE trip, as Molly was in that carrier with her for the entirety of each visit. Poor Carsen was REALLY tired of the full-contact love by the time we headed back to Texas!
On Sunday, we went bowling with Uncle Tim, Aunt Jamie, Uncle Kevin and Aunt Christine.
Lucy and Mo thought this was by far the best event of the trip thus far. Molly insisted on carrying her own ball.
I have a picture of my little brother Paul doing this at the same age and it's one of my most treasured pictures!
Molly was SO into bowling! She watched her ball from the second it rolled down the ramp until it hit the pins...
...and then she'd hang from the ramp and stand on her tippytoes in suspense!
I've gotta say, bowling shoes are so much cuter when you can see a tiny hiney at the same time!
Molly has been running around with her arms behind her when she gets REALLY jazzed, and the bowling alley was most certainly an occasion!
Bowling was great, but racing cars with Uncle K and Aunt C may have topped off the night!
Kevin and Christine came back to the house for spaghetti, and LB came over to visit. What was going to be a quiet little Sunday night turned into a loud, silly, happy night.
Mo intoduced Uncle K to one of her favorite games. You know, the one where she climbs up your shirt and sticks her feet out the neck.
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