Watched a 1967 episode of Spiderman with Charley this morning. I said it was the Spiderman I used to watch when I was little. Charley asked if he was a Spiderboy back then :)
Spiderman
January 27th, 2012The Swergerts
January 26th, 2012
My favorite Christmas present, made by Amma.
Pump It up!
January 22nd, 2012
Flora’s final birthday celebration was a “Pumpjama” party at Pump It Up. The kids wore cute jammies and crazy hairstyles and cooky socks, jumped and bounced ’til their hearts content, and chowed down on pizza and owl-shaped birthday cake.
Playdate
January 15th, 2012
Charley’s best girlfriends, Elsie and Madison, came over for a weekend playdate. All four kids had a great time playing dress-up, veterinarian, dentist, and doctor!
Superhero in Training…
January 15th, 2012
…but not in potty training. Charley is officially wearing big boy underwear and has been for several weeks with no accidents. Yay, Charley! Since it is his last thing left from babyhood, we haven’t asked him to give up the binky, though he’s more than ready. I’m such a sucker for his binky face — I’m the one that can’t give it up!
Flora’s Birthday Agenda
January 14th, 2012
Saturday morning Flora went for out for donuts with Daddy for breakfast, Saturday afternoon we all went to Peacuddy’s for lunch (now closed, sniff sniff), and Saturday evening we all went to Rang Indian Bistro (her pick) for dinner followed by a Peacuddy cupcake for dessert back at home.
Flora’s Sixth Birthday!
January 14th, 2012
The birthday girl in her birthday chair — my how she has grown! At 6, Flora’s reading and writing have taken off since the start of kindergarten — she loves to read to us at bedtime to show off her skills and works hard to sound out new words. Flora is still an avid fan of art and all art and craft projects. She loves to draw the most and add details to her pictures to make them more interesting. Definitely a girlie girl, she’s a sucker for anything cute (like kittens) and anything prissy (like dresses). She’s very tall at nearly 50 inches, and packs a punch at nearly 50 pounds. She enjoys her days at kindergarten with her friends and has settled into her new routine. She loves her family, near and far, and sometimes you can catch her being very sweet to her little brother, but you have to be quick. Her favorite “people” in the house are Finn (the cat) and Rusty (her stuffed dog) — usually where there is one there is the other. Flora has grown into a creative, imaginative, and funny kid who still loves to snuggle.
Holy Toledo
January 10th, 2012
It’s a Batchip, Batman.
Zoku
January 1st, 2012
Enjoying lemon popsicles from the new Zoku popsicle maker. Homemade popsicles in just 10 minutes!
Second Christmas 2011
December 28th, 2011
Strong National Museum of Play
Opening presents on New Year’s Eve with cousin Josh.
Flora and Rusty’s namesake, the “real” Rusty.
Christmas 2011
December 25th, 2011
Christmas Eve dinner at Taiwan Cafe.
Evidence that Santa and his reindeer were here.
The tree, minus a few ornaments.
The stockings.
Christmas morning loot.
Unwrapping presents.
The aftermath.
Christmas Dinner table. Flora filled out the seating cards and decided where everyone would sit.
Flora and her American Girl doll, Lizzy (short for Flora).
Charley getting steamy with Amma in the hotel hot tub.
Flora dunking her head in the hotel pool.
Mass Ave.
December 20th, 2011
Christmas shopping on Mass Ave. It was really, really cold.
Jammie Day
December 20th, 2011
Both kids had special Wear-Your-Jammies-To-School Days. They watched the Polar Express, drank hot chocolate, made holiday crafts, read holiday stories, and more. It sure was easy getting them ready for bed that night!
Gingerbread People
December 15th, 2011
Flora’s Ornaments
December 15th, 2011
Consider yourself lucky if you got one of these Flora-made ornaments for Christmas. She drew all the designs on with pencil first with the recipient in mind, carefully chose her colors to paint, and added glitter glue and glitter to finish the look.
The Nutcracker
December 11th, 2011
Christine and I treated the girls to their first performance of the Nutcracker, a matinee performance by the Northeast Youth Ballet featuring several friends as the mice, followed by a yummy dinner at the bistro in town. The sets and costumes were pure candy for the eyes!
Home for the Holidays 2011
December 3rd, 2011
This year we hit up “Home for the Holidays” with friends Christine and Ruby on Friday night for the lighting of downtown and Santa’s arrival via fire truck followed by a yummy dinner at Spice…then Saturday met up with friends Kelly, Alice and Elsie for cookie decorating, gingerbread house making, meeting Santa at the train station, and a pizza lunch. On the way home we just made it to the petting zoo to feed the baby goats and pet the llamas.
View Flora and Charley’s “Home for the Holidays 2011″ photos
Gingerbread
November 29th, 2011
In between these gingerbread cookies and those Halloween cookies, we made Thanksgiving cookies, too! The kids and I love to decorate cutout cookies. Charley sneaks lots of frosting licks and samples the decors, and Flora gets to exercise her creativity. My Mom and I used to make and decorate cutout cookies for Christmas, so it’s now a family tradition, except we spare no holiday in our house!
Poolside
November 27th, 2011
At the uber-mod Element Hotel in Lexington.
The Joker
November 26th, 2011
Apparently smoothies make for good Joker faces.
Leftovers
November 25th, 2011
Decordova
November 25th, 2011
To work off some of our Thanksgiving girth, and take advantage of the 60 degree weather, we took a stroll through the outdoor Decordova Sculpture Park Thanksgiving weekend.
Thanksgiving 2011
November 24th, 2011
Flora reads her “My Thanksgiving Book” during our Thanksgiving Meal Halftime Show. By the end of the meal, we were all stuffed on turkey, scalloped potatoes, spinach souffle, stuffing, roasted root vegetables, butternut squash, bread (Flora’s favorite), cranberry sauce (Charley’s favorite), and pie! We were all thankful to have Aunt Tracy, Uncle Chuck, Cousins Gregory and Jen, and Cousin Alex at our table this year.
Potty Time!
November 11th, 2011Charley Boy has been wearing pull-ups for the past few weeks with very few “misses.” He even pooped on the potty at school, though we’ve yet to see a repeat performance at home. But he’s doing great! Once he saw his pal Lucas pee on the potty, he wanted to wear his pullups and has been ever since!
Second Tooth
November 10th, 2011
All thse wanths for Chrithmath iths her two fwont teeth :) This time Flora’s letter instructed the Tooth Fairy not to keep the tooth, but to please still deliver a present.