Popcorn Popping

This past Saturday we we took the children and went downtown with Bonnie, Norm and Rosie to see the 2007 Cherry Blossom Festival in D.C. The children have been very excited as the trees have begun to bloom near our home. Everytime Kohen sees one he gets all amped pointing to the trees and saying "popcorn popping! popcorn popping!" over and over. He is quoting from a favorite Sunday School song about popcorn popping on the apricot trees in spring. So when we got down on the mall where there are literally thousands of trees in blossom he was beside himself. Kennedy was insistent on bringing a little purse to gather the blossoms, and I had to make sure she understood that though it looked like popcorn it was actually flowers. She seemed a little disapointed but quickly got over it probably because gathering flowers seems like something a princess might do. The scenery did seem a little like something straight out of a fairytale. You would have to be heartless not to feel a little romantic when you are standing under what looks like a canopy of pure white butterfly wings fluttering in the wind... well, heartless or else just asleep. Alyssa was all tucked in her new favorite form of travel- the backpack carrier- and was asleep as soon as we walked into the trees. With such beautiful surroundings she must have had sweet dreams.