American Horticultural Society at River Farm

Rachel is three weeks old today.  She spends so much time eating and sleeping, I barely have any pictures of her with her eyes open.  I tried to get some today and the photo shoot didn’t go too well, but here are two that I thought were funny.

Danielle and I had to do errands today that took us in different directions.  She took Rachel and went into DC for the morning, and I had to go south past Old Town.  I wanted to find something fun to do with Joseph while I was down there, and on a whim decided to go to River Farm, a large historic home with nice gardens on the Potomac, about half way between Old Town and Mount Vernon.  It is also the home for the American Horticultural Society.

Danielle and I had been there once before, and we had walked from the house down to the Potomac to see the nice views from the river.  This time with Joseph I walked along some nice paths through the gardens, and stumbled upon a children’s garden with tunnels (he LOVES tunnels) and a boat that he climbed on, and many plants and sculptures that are labelled and kid-friendly.  It was a real find, and lots of fun.

Unfortunately I forgot to bring my camera today.  But we were sorting through some things in the basement yesterday and I snapped a couple cute pictures of Joseph.  We bought this skunk costume at Halloween last year, but he didn’t want to wear it at the time.  We stumbled upon it yesterday and he was happy to oblige this time around.