Team i6 Takes on a Day at the Museum

We have a book called "Goodnight Washington DC" and Lincoln loves to read it every night before bed.  He has favorite pages that he always points out and he has started to ask to go to some of the DC places in the book.

He has taken a particular interest in the page that highlights the Smithsonian's Natural History Museum.  So we started telling him that he could earn a trip to the museum by earning dinosaur stickers to go on a chart and after he earned 14 stickers we would take him.  He could earn the stickers by going to and leaving school without any tantrums (and thus making drop-offs and pick-ups much easier on Mommy & Daddy).  The timing of the sticker earning rate also coincided with a teacher service day at his school and we needed to figure out something fun to do that day anyway with Lincoln so it was a perfect opportunity to head into the city on a hopefully not too busy day.  Well he earned his stickers like a champ and off to the city we went...all FOUR of us!

Linc had a great time and loved exploring!  Lilah pretty much slept the whole time with the exception of the 30 minutes she woke up to eat, but she was perfectly well behaved and I think she liked her first DC cultural outing. 

Here are some pictures from the adventure.  

Oh and as an added bonus we got to see Marine One (and the other identical one, you can read why there are two or more here in case you are curious) flying across the city sky as were were leaving.  Lincoln was super excited to see the President's helicopter flying by...who knows if he is was in it or not but it was still cool to see and a great end to our little trip.  You can sort of see them both in the pic below, the second one is the larger dot on the right.