E's First Dance Class

Instead of E doing preschool, I decided to put her in a dance class with her cousin A. They are the two best friends in there!! This is the picture I got when I asked them to smile. Can you say "Bitter Beer Face?"

Hair Fix

I have been reading a hair blog lately and it has really got me excited about doing new things in E's hair. Here is one that I came up with on my own.

Side view

Top view.

First Soccer Game

B's team name is the Goats. I wouldn't say that he particularly likes it, but I can already see improvement from his first game. At his last game he said "Mom, I got two kicks and seven pushes"

Here he is chasing after the ball again. He has been bribed to score a goal. If he does, he can choose a dinosaur at the toy store. That is some serious incentive for him.

First day of school

B rides the bus both ways to school. He (and me) were nervous about how the bus would be but it went very smoothly!

E giving her big brother a love before he got on the bus. She still misses him while he is gone and can't wait until he gets back.

B with his friend B waiting for the bus to come to our stop.

How is B this old that he can go to school all by himself?!? It is crazy.

E's Birhtday

Here are some pictures of E's birhtday. How in the world did she get so old and big??!? Here is the happy (usually) 3 year old:



Here we are with the birthday cake I made her. I felt a little out of practice with the fondant, but it was fun to make anyway. I call the cake "The Barbie Belle of the Ball"

Here she is dressed up in a Tinkerbelle costume that Uncle M and Aunt M's family gave her. She loves to dress up.

This was at her birthday party with M's side of the family. She had a Disney Princess cake. Yes, she was eating a sucker as she was waiting for cake and ice cream. It was her birthday, right?

She loved opening up all the presents. She even let B help when he asked to. She really is a sweetheart inside all the spunky exterior!!

From the Mouth of Babes

I told B I would help him figure out how to work a toy after I got E in her carseat. He said "I figured it out mom. I read the constructions."

I was writing through facebook to a friend. E asked what I was doing. I told her I was talking to a friend on the computer. E looked at me seriously and said "Computers don't talk, Mom."

I was talking to M about a doll E had just gotten for her birthday. It was really cute and had pink hair. I held it up to M and asked him who he thought it looked like. He said it looked like his niece M. B said "M had pink hair when she was a baby?!?"

NYC and Boston

M and I went to Boston and NYC a few weeks ago without the kids. We went a lot of places that we hadn't gone before. It was lots of fun!!!

This was at the Red Sox game. The first game we went to we bought tickets from a scalper. It was a little bit scary! We were in the "cheap seats" where the fans get really loud and wild. It was super humid (notice the glow on our faces). The second game we had seats that were a lot closer. We got lots of Red Sox gear at the store.

Although we have been to NYC three times before, we had never been to the Empire State Building. It was raining while we were up there so here was a picture of a storm coming in.

We had also never been to the Brooklyn bridge before. We walked from the Brooklyn side to the Manhatten side. I never knew it was such a popular thing to do! There were tons of people up there!