Sushi Lover

A few days ago we took the boys to Adam's favorite sushi restaurant. Surprisingly, Jonathan ate tons. Tempura, gyoza, edamame. Alex even ate lots of noodles and edamame. So now we have tried to get them to eat better at home and the trick...chopsticks. They love them and actually use the training one very well.

Zoo Trip with Daddy

We were lucky that for this weeks outing Adam could join us. We made our way to the Stone Zoo for a Friday afternoon. The first exhibit was great. The bears were right up against the windows trying to sniff the kids.

Another favorite was climbing on the Earth.


Adam always thinks he can handle the whole world at once.

We had lots of fun with Daddy and are excited that his classes are nearly over and then he will be able to spend more time with us before his Europe trip.

The Boys Room Is Finished

After 8 months I have finally finished the boys room. Since we can't paint I decided to make model planets. It didn't actually take all that long. I had finished the planets within a month of moving in last year. Then the bedding and curtains came shortly after. It was the sun that was put off until last week when Alex started vocalizing even more then usual that it needed to get done. I think it turned out wonderful. The best part...they glow in the dark.

The Butterfly Place

Now that spring has officially arrived we have started to do weekly outings to fill our usual Imajine That trip time. This week, we went to the Butterfly Place in Chelmsford.

The enclosure was quite awesome. The boys loved to check out the butterflys, however we had to be very careful since Jonathan just wanted to touch them all. And of course, since they flew everywhere we had to watch our feet.

Here was my favorite. Unfortunately, the blue color doesn't quite show in the picture.

We ended up leaving quickly after Jonathan purposely stepped on one. I am not sure he quite gets that that was not right, but I didn't stick around for him to do it again.

Easter

Easter was a beautiful day here in New England. We spent a lot of the day at the boys favorite park. It was so nice out that we spent a good deal of time playing baseball.

Then we took a hike around the little pond to check out the new turtles.

The tree the boys always climb on had some issues this winter and some of the huge limbs were cut off. It didn't stop them from getting up to a small ledge.

We walked over to the town's egg hunt. There were 10000 eggs spread out over 4 sections, splitting up the ages. I went with Alex and Adam went with Jonathan. The whole thing was over in about 45 seconds.

So we had another hunt at our complex's park.

Alex got to play some tennis. We are looking for lessons this summer. He loves it so much and already has so much talent.

Jonathan got some practice on the bike we got him last year. He still has some severe steering issues but his legs are getting stronger.

And of course, lots of daddy time.

We hope everyone else had as wonderful a weekend as we did.

Vacation 2010!

For the second year Adam has taken me on a wonderful vacation, alone, that means without kids for those you don't understand what alone means anymore.

The first leg involved me getting the boys to my parents house in North Carolina. I had to fly them to Charlotte, rent a car and drive to Asheville. It really wasn't all that bad. The boys are amazingly behaved on trips and this one was no exception.

We did start a little rough when Alex tripped on Jonathan at security, causing Jonathan to clobber Alex which in turn made Alex very upset and since daddy was still in sight he started screaming "I want my daddy". When we finally got through I saved the day with chocolate muffins.

My dad is living in New York right now so it was just mom my and brothers taking care of the boys. Which was really enough seeing as there are 4 brothers spoiling them rotten. I think the boys loved it. I think that after the trip they missed Uncle Dj and Uncle Andy more then they missed me while I was on the trip.

On Friday Adam and I met in San Diego. We both barely made it due to weather. In fact, Adam had to sell our third child to gain his way onto the last possible flight since he missed his. But once we got there and were on the boat it was no problem relaxing and getting into the lifestyle of vacation.

Here are some shots of us in Mexico and on the boat.

If you look closely at the pic below, at the far left you will see a tall white tower. Adam and I actually walked all the way over to that section of the island. It was well over 6 miles. Luckily for $1 we could take a bus just about all the way back to our boat. We ate about 2000 calories and then slept for a couple of hours after that outing.

Below is the beach that we went snorkeling at in Cabo. We had to hike along the shore, climbing over rocks and jumping over water to get there. But once we got to the beach, with soaked shoes, we had a blast. There was one really exciting and scary moment when some old guy had to be pulled out of the water. I think he was only a little shocked when he discovered his savior was 5 months pregnant. We chatted for awhile with the guy and his wife and then headed back along our hike, which was much easier since the tide had gone out.

Here is part of where we had to hike.

the trip was wonderful. Of course, you have to throw out the last day where I spent 18 hours either in bed or in the tiny bathroom. I either had food poisoning or sea sickness. Either way, it sucked. I got absolutely no sleep but luckily I had a red eye scheduled for the next day so I got no sleep that night either. By the time I got to my moms house to get the boys I was totally exhausted. I still found enough energy to take the boys to Chuck e Cheeses before we headed off to the airport.

The boys made super friends with my moms cat. They wanted to take several home with them and while I was fine with that, Adam sadly said no. Probably because he would have to take care of the cat box for the next 4 months.

The boys were great as usual on the plane. They both fell asleep. Which made getting them out of the plane very interesting. I ended up carrying 3 backpack, Jonathan and pushing Alex while he moaned. A lady ended up helping with the backpacks, luckily. Once I told Alex that we would see daddy he freaked out and started wailing. This is the same reaction he had when I got home. He wanted nothing to do with me. By the time we got our luggage and were settled in the car he was back to normal and laughing with daddy.

This was really a great vacation all in all. I completely crashed on Tuesday but by Wednesday the rest I got on the trip kicked in and I felt great. We probably won't be going on a trip like this for a couple of years but we sure will be looking forward to it.

Family Swim Day!

Since I have been feeling a lot better we have been getting to the pool a lot more often. The boys just love it and it totally wears them out so that means I love it.

This video is of Alex swimming all by himself all the way across the pool. It really is amazing how great a swimmer he has become. He has started lessons to learn the strokes a little better. Right now he has breast stroke down and is working on backstroke.

Jonathan is showing off his jumping skills in this video. He has been taking lessons with me since January. And he has gone from 3 bubbles to 2. Hopefully he will be down to 1 soon and then by the end of summer swimming on his own.