All Aboard

Theo received this cute dress up outfit for Christmas from my aunt. On Christmas, he wore the outfit the entire day! He loves to play train and we were on quite a journey today.

Just like the Swiss, he wants to be on time.

And away we go!

Pigs!

Time for Partners

This winter/spring, Theo and I attended a music and art class through the city called Time for Partners (couldn't they have thought of a catchyer name?). It was a great time for the two of us. The art projects were great fun and very creative centered around a theme each week. The music class was pretty good though every single week was much the same making me want to run out of the room screaming for it all to stop. Can you tell I need a break from this class?!? Poor Gabriel may have to branch out to something else in another year.

Denise and Sam took the class with us making it fun for both kids and moms.

Hmm, What Was for Dinner?

The Beach!

Memorial Day dawned sunny and somewhat warm, so I decided to take Maddie and Theo to the beach. They were very excited. I do have a hard time with New England beaches. The ocean just seems in the wrong place, wrong color and wrong temperature. We tried a new beach closeish to Boston. We arrived to an empty expanse of sand, perfect for running, sand castle building, bathroom trips to a really beautiful facility and of course,

Snacks!

Rainy Day Biking

Nathan is indoctrinating the kids into cycling! Theo even wants a pair of bike shorts. Nathan has taken the kids out on some pretty long rides - Maddie's gone about 6 miles and Theo 3, which says a lot as he's pushing the bike with his feet on the street. It's a very fun activity for them. I, on the other hand, am not entirely cut out for family bike rides - yet. Theo is a bit crazy on the bike and with much shrieking and hollering (me to Theo as he's barreling down the street), I decided that this is a perfect Daddy/child activity. In the picture above, the cyclists got caught in a torrential downpour. Spirits were not dampened!

Wonderful Waban Weekend

We had a packed weekend with events in Waban. Our friends the Partingtons are departing to Connecticut. They are the type of people who make everyone feel welcome, always have an open door and a party going on, and have a daughter, Laine, in Maddie's class. They were having a goodbye party complete with amazing face painter and magician. Our night was capped off with a super fun dinner at our friends Kelly and Jeff's house. We'd bid on a dinner at the Angier fundraiser with Kelly and Jeff's neighbor and Angier parent, Atul Gawande. He's a surgeon, writer for the New Yorker and author of two very interesting books, Complications and Better. We invited other kindergarten parents and had a lovely evening.

The next day we walked to Waban Village Days. It's quite a small little fair but fun none the less. The kids enjoyed riding the small rides, their favorite being the viking ship.

Now that we are in the elementary school, it was great fun to bump into friends in the village.