Ice Skating w/Aunt Lindsay

Lindsay took Leah ice skating today. Leah has gone a few times this Winter and after a few go arounds I think she really got the hang of it.












She had a fall & got a little banged up. She was upset (rightfully so) and a bit scared BUT she had some hot chocolate and went back on the ice.

Blog Updates

I am currently working on building one site for a page for each child and one for our family. Our family is growing and keeping up with all three seperate blogs will be a challenge. Having one place for them will be a lot easier for me.

In the meantime I am going to work on catching up this blog!

Mom & Daughter Day

We definitely needed a day just to ourselves. Both Leah and myself felt like we were missing some time with just the two of us. We decided to head into Manhattan for a day of wandering and then eventually meeting up with my friend Jen and her family. We didn't have a specific plan, just felt the day out. It was a good Winter day for walking around. Cold but not windy.

We started off with heading to Central Park. We walked through and ended up at the Central Park Zoo. We have made good use of our membership to the WCS zoos. Definitely going to renew our membership in June.









On the way out of the park by the Children's Zoo we stopped by the Delacorte Musical Clock. Waited for the half hour and the wonderful show. Leah loved it.



We headed out of the park and walked crosstown towards Alice's Tea Cup:Chapter II for dinner. It was a 30 minute wait but it went by pretty quickly. Leah ordered their 'Wee Tea'. Comes with her choice of drink, she chose a pot of their Berry Bunch Fruit Tisane Tea. It is a blend of flowers, hisbiscus with fruits and berries. Very tasty. She chose their buttermilk scone served with clotted cream and preserves, chicken fingers (no surprise) and their delicious chocolate mousse.



Everything was good. We weren't rushed, took our time.

Following dinner we walked down to Aunt Lindsay's to see if she was around but she was out and then headed over to visit my friend Jen at a local hotel in Rockefeller Center. Jen and her husband Keith were going to be on the Today Show the following day on one of their weightloss segments. Leah has never met Jen's daughter Mairi but you would've thought they were best friends since birth. It was a great visit.

Snow Day

Leah had a snow day today and spent it playing the snow. Appropriate. We got another really good dose of snowfall so Louis went out to play with her. He loves the snow just as much as she does.

Magic Tree House

Today we went to the Barnes & Noble in Carle Place to see Mary Pope Osborne, the author of the Magic Tree House Series. Leah recently began reading the series and was excited to meet the author.

Blizzard 2010

We had some good snowfall for the kids post Christmas. Leah had a blast playing in it. She went out for over an hour and could have easily stayed out for much longer.

Can you tell she LOVES snow?

Christmas Eve 2010

As per our usual Christmas Eve tradition the kids opened up their (expected) gift, new set of pajamas to wear to bed and wake up in on Christmas morning. The past few years we've hosted Christmas Eve dinner at our house but with all the business with Louis's first birthday party it would've been too overwhelming for me.






Gifts wrapped and ready to go.

Lil Bro's 1st Birthday Party

We threw a Dr. Seuss themed 1st birthday party for Louis. The weather was questionable, lots of rain, doom looming but everyone made it out.

Leah looked beautiful in her Dr. Seuss theme outfit.



Leah's fave table of food...dessert!


Best kids around- beautiful too :)

Santa Visit

Dressed up Leah and Louis today and off we went to see Santa. Unusual to be without all of Leah's drama about being scared of Santa. Louis was not happy about it. This was as close as we were going to get to a happy photo with the two of them with Santa.

Christmas Decor

Finally managed to get our tree up (and I know now that it is up it won't be done till probably February). Still love our tree.

Our Lil Thanksgiving

Since moving to our current home we've hosted a Post-Thanksgiving feast a few times but this year it was just the 4 of us.

Leah helped decorate for Thanksgiving/Autumn.



It was nice. I made everyone's favorites and we sat down and ate and well...ate some more.

Happy Thanksgiving! - A lil Early

I absolutely love Shutterfly. I do try to make my own invites and cards but the site is so easy to use. Leah wanted to make some cards. We ended up with three different versions of a Thanksgiving card. Working on some Winter Holiday themed ones as well.

Festive Family Fall Greeting

Unique party invitations and greeting cards by Shutterfly.

View the entire collection of cards.

Circus Fun!

Leah loves the circus, as do I. This year we decided to take Louis along to the Big Apple Circus. Matt isn't the biggest fan so it was just the three of us.

Leah at the fountain at Lincoln Center.




Leah and Grandma the Clown


So cute!

Off to school she goes...

Leah asked to get herself on the bus this morning so I watched from the porch.