graduation and memorial day weekend

Caden has officially graduated from his preschool.  Most of the kids in his class will be moving on to Kindergarten next year, but with his August birthday, he'll be doing Pre-K at Fourth School.

Happy boy with his daddy.

 Getting seated for the graduation ceremony.

 His sweet little class.

 Singing '1 year, 2 years, 3 years of preschool' - absolutely precious.

 Presenting his amazing teacher with her class gift (a necklace from Tiffany's - fun surprise).  

 Our big little man.

 With his classmate Rachel - he liked her, she liked him...cuteness.

Horsin' around with Ryan before Bible studies on Thursday night.

We stayed put for Memorial Day weekend.  We started with some pool fun on Friday afternoon with some friends who just moved back from California, followed by an impromptu pizza dinner at Haven in Bethesda (SO good).  And then we took advantage of being in the nation's capital, and spent some time downtown Saturday morning.  The boys LOVED the Suprasensorial (experiments in light, color, and space) exhibit at the Hirshhorn Museum.

    

 Taking in the primary color rooms.

 face shots in the blue room.

 And then this amazing piece by Jesus Rafael Soto - walking through this was by far their favorite.

 Big muscles before walking into a room filled with black lights.

Andrew thought it looked like the "olden days" before they had color ;). 

 Taking in the view.

He wanted to contribute to the experience. 

Sweet face. 

Picnic lunch on the mall, by the Smithsonian carousel. 

 And then some post lunch fun.

Pure delight.

And then Will and I drove home (past the White House, memorials, under memorial bridge, Kennedy Center, and then up the hill past the cathedral) for naptime.  We're only 15 minutes, IF you take the right roads.  Dave and the boys stayed down for a bit more fun, including a metro ride home.

 On Monday we were thrilled to get to catch one of Hunter's baseball games.  I was delivering a meal just a few miles away, we had a few errands to run at the mall, and we got to experience Elevation Burger for the first time (yum).  Caden spent a lot of the game like this - pretty exciting for this sport's lover.

The OConnell boys, sans Will (he was too busy playing in the gravel).