Kite Festival

We look forward to the National kite festival every year. We met our friends downtown for Ellies 3rd birthday party so it was an extra special day. It was a nice day but not very windy so it was hard to get the kites up.
Bens Air force kite.

Claire spent the time crawling everywhere and getting dirty. She had so much fun and was so tired when it was all done. Ellie had these automatic bubbles and Claire loved chasing them and trying to catch them.

these pants are history after a day of crawling around on the National mall.

Trying to eat the bubbles coming out of the bubble machine.

Ellie had kites that the kids could decorate and then fly. They were called frustrationless kites. They were wonderful. They were so easy to get up and fly. Siena was excited to do it all by herself.

The big kites. We saw a huge whale and a huge scuba diver kite. They weren't up for very long but they were huge.

Siena and Ben decorating their kites.

There would be big gusts of wind and you would see hundreds of kites up in the air.

Siena so excited Daddy got her big princess kite up in the air.

Our princess kite next to the Washington Monument.

The kids had a wonderful time. It was really crowded and the kids kept running with their kites and tangling up with other people. I had to keep explaining to them that we weren't on the beach and they couldn't run with them. They were so excited to fly them though. We were glad we had gone down earlier to see the Cherry blossoms because they had all fallen off the trees.
Washington D.C. is so beautiful in the Spring!