Jocelyn Turns Three

One of the Three Musketeers - Jocelyn - recently turned three, and her parents threw a fun pajama party complete with scavenger hunt and story time. I hate to say it, but this may be the last big hurrah for the Three Musketeers, as they may be going their separate ways this summer. Jocelyn, Rachel and Jake have been buddies at daycare since they were babies.

Jocelyn was pretty excited to have all her friends at her party, and played the part of a good hostess, bouncing all over the room and playing with everyone. Jake and Rachel were pretty much joined at the hip, sitting next to each other for pizza, and playing together most of the night.
And here's Jocelyn enjoying her fruit cup:

And here's Sadie doing her best Johnny Cash impression (anyone? anyone?):

Anticipation

We've been telling Jake for weeks now about our upcoming trip to California to visit my grandparents and to see Disneyland. Jake knows all about California from the Cars movie, when Lightning McQueen has to go there for a rematch with his rivals. He's got his suitcase and everything. A while back, we recorded a show on cable about Disneyland and its history, and tonight we played it for Jake and asked him which rides he'd like to go on. He really got excited about the tea cups and the river boat and the carousel and pretty much everything that flashed on the screen. We told him we'd be there in just a couple of weeks, but he couldn't wait that long. "Can we just hop into the TV now??!!"

Airshow

Yesterday we went to the Joint Service Open House at Andrews Air Force Base. It was a beautiful day, and just a little cool in the morning - perfect for walking around on the tarmac where it gets hot pretty quickly. Mimi and Grandpa came too, which which was fun because I remember going with them when I was Jake's age (or maybe a little older).

Here's Jake at the controls of a helicopter:

I'm pretty sure he adjusted every dial and switch, so hopefully the real pilots check everything before they fire up the engines.

And here's Sadie checking out the rotors:


They have all services represented here, and you'd need to stay longer than we did to see everything. It's pretty impressive. This is a picture of Jake in some SCUBA gear at the Navy deep sea diving and bomb squad booth:

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