Boxes Revisited

As Promised

We went to the Queens County farm and museum yesterday... soo much fun! lots of little animals that Claire could look at and some she could touch! We saw some neat things too, like little horns on little calfs and sheep being sheared. Claire liked the ducks best probably.

Although the pig that was at least 10x her size (no exaggeration)may have come a close second.

This Feeling Inside

Isn't it funny how sometimes you think you know something or someone and then you take a closer look at yourself and realize that you don't know anything about anything that you thought you knew. Every time I look at my daughter it amazes me that she spends so little time out of my sight and yet I barely know her, she is constantly evolving into a little girl. One who doesn't like water to drink and who knows when I cut her apple juice with it; One who loves to sit and stare at the fishtank until I get bored of sitting and holding her on my lap so that she can; One that eats like crazy before noon but like a bird after that; One who can light up a room with her smile and darken it just as quickly with a scream. I guess that's what mothering is all about, getting to know someone new every minuet of every day.
ps. We made it to the zoo. :)

for ami

This is Not a Krumpkey

it is a packing peanut!

Mama's takin' us to the zoo tomorrow.

We tried to go to the Bronx Zoo today. It didn't work. They closed the parking lots cause they were full.. gotta love Jewish holidays. This is about as close to the zoo as we got.

Instead we went to the botanical gardens in the Bronx. They are beautiful! Claire had fun.

Happy Birthday to Claire

Claire had a great birthday! (everything will be underlined because my genius daughter is the queen of hot keys that mommy doesn't know)
She ate cake and opened presents. She enjoyed both a lot.
The cake maybe more. Judge for yourself.











She also got a baby and marvels at the size of it's tiny finger.. full circle huh?

My Contribution

So I was 'challenged' to see what I could come up with to top my sister in annoying after she posted the video for choreography. (I did not spell it right the first time) :) Here goes:

Go in Your House...

Every woman needs a good pair of sunglasses that will tell the whole world to just 'go in your house and leave me alone'.
Claire has a cold and is VERY booger-y for some reason this is tied to wearing sun glasses. Before this, she never would leave them on.... I guess sometimes you just wanna hide.

A Jump on Fashion

Claire insists on wearing this shirt this way, I fix it, she re-fixes it. I put her down to nap and she gets up looking like this... How funny.

In Case you Didn't Beleive Me

By The Way

BTW, babies in hoodies and jeans and ponytails are sooo cute!

Miss Brenda posted about shoes and I have to say that I heard something rustling in my dining room and then I saw Claire come around the corner with these bags stuck to her feet and the napkins clutched in her arms and I just busted up laughing! It's the rustling that I can't take... It's good to laugh.

This Hammoky Thing

Friend or Stranger?

Old friends resurfacing is strange. Especially when the relationship is awkward to begin with and then add a few odd years of distance and you have a strange situation. But sometimes those people have an odd way of bringing clarity to your circumstances. They may not know the back story, or any of the current one, but somehow they know exactly what to say to help you get those tears out that you've been holding in and move past whatever is to make you smile. I don't know what it is but friends truly are forever, like once you've bonded that's it for life. You may go separate ways, choose opposing paths or just drift to different sides of the same road but someday your journeys will cross again, at the best time or the worst time and you'll fall right into step, synced up perfectly by the Master who built your path.

Love of Her Life

Sadly the newest love of our life lives in a mason jar and loses his powers to amaze once he leaves it.... She is a strange old bird.

Suba?

Cancun

So, I was holding out for the video from our scuba trip but I don't believe it will be happening anytime soon since our final cut program is sick on Steve, Jimmy will have to edit it at work (although he spends a lot of time there, it's a lot of work and very little time for fun editing). All that to say that I'll be posting stills from our vacation... but not all of them as some of them need Jimmy's attention also.

On our trip to Cancun we did some exciting things, these included parasailing (which my computer says is not a word), scuba diving at the reef, more Spanish speaking than I've done since Scott, and a lot of marveling at the wonders God created. (the water is SO blue).

Scuba diving was a ton of fun I was nervous before we went down, after I had some mechanical malfunctions during the practice session in the pool. But it was so fun! I was close enough to the fish to touch them (against the rules) and I saw a ton of coral that I wanted for our tank at home... Jimmy also enjoyed himself although he got bit by a 'fire coral' which is a type of jelly fish, too bad we didn't know that till we got back to the hotel, (someone could have peed on it)(instead we used vinegar).
Parasailing was also fun, it was kinda freaky too cause we got into this hammock seat thing and they don't strap you in.. like at all, you are just hundreds of feet above the bright blue water, it was awesome in all meanings of the word. (there are pictures but they are some of the ones that Jimmy has to help me with).
Overall it was not quite paradise like they advertise it to be but very close, I enjoyed the time with my family and my in-laws a lot.

Claire Fix

Just in case you thought we left her in Mexico, or you miss her.

Construction Fiesta

So the one thing in Mexico that I got super excited about.. strangely was the construction flags, instead of tape, or a concrete barrier they have fiesta flags! it was so fun to see and it made me miss my littlest sister.. so ami these are for you. Love ya