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We headed to Molly’s school again this weekend to take advantage of the blacktop and playground. They started by riding their bikes on the nice, flat blacktop, but then switched to playing hopscotch.

I told Leah to see how high she could jump in hopscotch.

Molly soared on the hopscotch course as well.

On to the playground, so Molly can flip things upside down.

The girls wanted to pose in the playground windows. And, yes, Leah was determined to keep her bike helmet on the entire time. I guess she wanted to be ready to hop back on her bike at a moment’s notice.

Leah’s waiting expectantly at the bottom of the slide.

It’s so great to be able to play outside like this again.

The girls have gotten back into Lego Friends, and they used some Toys R Us gift cards to get some new ones. Here's Leah with her newly constructed rehearsal stage and jet ski.

Molly still keeps her tongue out while working on detailed tasks. So, it was out pretty much the whole time she built this sports car.

Molly like her new Legos. Ignore the wimpy thumbs up.

Molly is back in lessons at the swim school, and this time she’s brought her sister along for the fun.

The girls are doing fantastic, with new firsts every lesson. Molly swam the length of the pool for the first time here.

Not long ago, she wouldn’t put her face in the water. Now Molly is swimming with her head down.

Leah got to wear flippers for the first time, which was loads of fun.

Molly’s getting pretty good at making a splash when jumping in the pool.

Hopefully, this will make summer swimming season much more enjoyable for both of them.

We spent much of Mother’s Day with my mom (crazy, I know). These girls love their Grams.

Leah loves Grams’s charm bracelets, and wants Grams to explain each charm every time we get together.

Molly’s class took a field trip to Green Meadows Petting Farm. Non-chaperoning parents and siblings were invited to attend, so Leah and I drove out to meet Molly. The rubber duck races were a big hit with all the kids.

Molly and Grace had a great day at the farm together, especially on the extremely bumpy hay ride.

Those are some funny looking animals!

Grace was the first of the group to step up and milk the cow.

It took a bit of coaxing to get Molly to try milking the cow, but she finally was willing. Notice the stream of milk flowing in front of her.

The farm asked that only adults pick up the animals, but Grace was so excited to help hold a baby bunny.

I think the bunny decided that Molly needed a few bunny kisses. Note that Leah does not appear in any of these pictures with animals. She was perfectly willing to enjoy them from a distance.

Leah invited me to a Mother’s Day tea at her preschool. We enjoyed a lovely snack of cheese and crackers, strawberries, and Hershey’s kisses while donning a fabulous crown. :)

I was also given a special pillowcase created from Leah’s artwork. It was a wonderful morning!

Molly and Leah have ballet class back-to-back on Saturday. Leah loves to watch Molly’s class. She sits in the doorway for most of the class, mesmerized by the older girls dancing.

Occasionally, Molly’s ballet class goes into a larger room to practice what it will be like on stage for their recital. Leah gets to sit up front to act as the audience for them, which she loves.

Leah’s preschool had an art show for us to enjoy. They displayed several pieces of art from each of the students. Here’s Leah with the rocket she and I made on Father’s Day.

Here’s a close-up of our rocket. Ignore the label that says it’s a building. I believe we started building a tower, but then Leah decided it was a rocket instead when we were part way through.

Leah’s teacher said she was the most meticulous of all the students when creating her self-portrait. Leah made sure she had all her teeth, eyeballs including the iris and the pupil, eyelashes, and ears.

I like that her favorite color is “all of them”, rather than her usual answer of pink. And that she’s 4 turning 5 (her birthday's in 5 months). And that she wants to do really wide splits.

The girls were very excited to find their Easter baskets filled on Easter morning. Thankfully, I’d told them the night before that they had to wait patiently in their room until a reasonable hour before getting us up to head downstairs.

Molly seems to think her new bubble wand is Excalibur. The crazy glasses complete the look.

Leah was quick to crack open this new pirate princess book.

After church, we gathered with family at Grams’s house. Molly decided to be the photographer for the day, and wandered the house taking pictures with my camera. She even got this mirror selfie to prove it.

Leah loves it when Uncle Scott lifts her up. Note that this picture was also taken by Molly.

After a fun day in Philadelphia, we spent the night in a nearby hotel along with four other families. We headed out the next morning to check out the Please Touch Museum. Leah was happy to see some familiar duck-billed faces there.

Molly learned how a lock works.

You can’t miss a chance to play a Big piano with your feet.

Molly’s cranking the lift to load bricks up to Leah.

They have a pretty large grocery store set up that the kids spent much of their time in. Keira spent much of her time playing the role of cashier.

Molly thought this baby (as well as all the others) needed an MRI in the hospital.

Eventually, Leah played the role of cashier while Keira was a customer.

In the space area, they had launch pads for launching foam rockets. Molly’s red rocket has just taken off, though she doesn’t know that since her eyes are shut.

Shooting rockets up toward the target rings is amazing.

Statue of Leahberty

Combining a couple of backhoes and a ball pit made for lots of fun.

No surprise that Leah quickly dressed as a princess when entering the fairytale corner.

Molly’s creating a book in the craft room. Note that the further out you stick your tongue, the harder you concentrate.

Leah takes a brief break from drawing to contemplate her artwork.

Keira’s excited to ride the museum’s carousel.

The girls love the carousel. Jen - not so much. But she took her dramamine so she was able to ride it one time (I had to take her place for the second time around).

It’s a very nice carousel.

We had to tear them away from their book making to ride the carousel with everyone else. To do so, we promised them we’d come back afterward. So, we headed back to the craft room to continue book making until it was time to go.

And thus our great Philadelphia adventure came to an end. We then hopped in the car and braved the traffic of I95 back to Maryland.