Elfreth's Alley: the oldest inhabited road in the United States.

Kez playing on the steps that George Washington climbed. This is Congress Hall; it's pretty important because this is where the first peaceful exchange of power took place (except for royal progression of course). People were really nervous that Washington would want to continue presiding over America. But he said a few words, passed the power on to John Adams, and walked out of the building. Kezzie had an obsession with the steps, she kept trying to crawl up them. I think she wants to be president. Poor girl, she doesn't know she was born in Canada so she can never be president. Ah, the poor choices of her parents!

From the look on Kezzie's face, she was really impressed with the Liberty Bell. She must have thought it was broken.

Kez and I in front of the Swann fountain downtown.

Good old Ben. Did you know he was only about 5 feet tall? Can't really tell from the statue:)

Kez getting out of an old airplane.

Our future musician...she can keep a beat!

Today I officially packed up Kezzie's summer clothes into the retired box. Last week Friday the temperature soared to 79 degrees, but I'm pretty sure that was the last time this year she can sport the shorts. Since then the temps have been dropping. The leaves haven't started changing colors yet, but that will likely change over the next few weeks.

Now that we have a child, we've started doing "family" things. A few weekends ago we went down to the Franklin Institute (mainly because it was college day and Bud and I got in for free). Kezzie was about as impressed as a one-year old should be. She saw the big train-a real train that they brought into the basement. She crawled through the arteries of the human heart; she watched a demonstration on liquids and gases (got really excited for the balloons-which she pointed at and yelled "Baa, Baa" because she thought they were balls). She even went on a tour through the human heart (which Bud said had a strong smell of body odor, strange for a human heart).