Weekend Update

These past couple of weekends have been so much fun, and I haven't had a chance to write about them. We went to Chelsea Piers with the Little Guy and had a blast. We didn't see Suri or Kelly Ripa's kiddos, but we still had a great time. They have ice skating, bowling, gymnastics, and tons of sports. Most of the activities are for older kids, but as soon as Christopher starts walking we are so throwing him in the ball pit and making him play micro soccer. It's going to be really nice next winter to go burn off some toddler energy I'm sure. We ate pizza there (I'm eating cheese again!!) and then went to a cute little park. We put him in the umbrella stroller, which was quite the change from his Suburban stroller that he's normally in. After that we took an interesting bus ride home. I won't go in to details, but we had some fools with differing political views going at it... and they were all at least 70. Crazy. 

Last weekend Sarah and I went to Saturday Night Live. I still can't believe we got to go. I sent an email to get tickets in August and they got back to me about a month ago. Conan and I decided we weren't ready to leave the LG with a sitter right before bed. He's very used to his bedtime routine and I can't imagine what a poor sitter would have to deal with if we weren't there. So, Conan was so nice and let me go with Sarah. (He's the best!) Sarah and I had tickets to the dress rehearsal, which is right before the actual show. It's exactly the same, and they actually do extra for the rehearsal and cut it out before the real show. I was telling the page who was passing out tickets how this was my first time out without Christopher since he was born and then she told us to go stand in a separate line. We soon found out this was the line to sit on the floor! Since we were first in line we got to sit in the very FRONT row. It could not have been a cooler experience. Tracy Morgan was about 5 feet away from us during the monologue, weekend update was right in front of us, and we almost got run over during set changes throughout the whole show (including a cow and a hawk). Tina Fey made an appearance that night too. The show was so funny, we were cracking up during the whole thing. I felt so lucky to have gotten that experience and I will definitely try to get tickets again next year so I can take the hubby. Christopher will be okay with a baby sitter by then right? 

I don't have any pictures from Chelsea Pier (I forgot the camera), so here are some random ones. I have lots of really close up ones of Christopher now because every time I get out the camera he attacks me and tries to grab it. It's hilarious, but it makes it tough to get any pictures of him now that aren't of just his face. The next one is him in his play pen. I had just washed a bunch of him toys and I was letting them dry in there. It was like a baby's dream in there, all of his toys in one spot and he didn't even have to move to get them to put in his mouth. The next is him pulling up to get his toys out of his toy box. I've caught him diving in face first to get what he wants. No pictures of that though, I have to rescue him promptly when that happens. I just realized I should probably explain why there's a blanket covering the TV. We play CDs through the TV and Christopher is so mesmerized by the blue screen he won't do anything but stare at it until we cover it up. Conan's sister, Mariko and her friend Chloe are in town this weekend, so I'm sure we'll have lots of fun stories to share again soon.