Party!

We've had a crazy weekend. We had 2 birthday parties each this weekend and last. It's been lots of fun, but between that and Bryce deciding he doesn't sleep at night anymore, I think we're all a little tired.

We had our first snow yesterday. Very early, I know. I hope it's not a sign of what's to come this winter. We walked back from Ayla's party in the sleet. Brr. Chris decorated cupcakes, played pinata, and ran around like a crazy man for 2 hours. So fun!

His friend from school, Ian had his party today. It was a pirate/princess party. They went around and collected treasures, decorated a treasure chest, jumped on bubble wrap, and did the chicken dance. I don't think Chris could have thought of more fun activities if he tried.

Tomorrow is his school Halloween parade and trick or treating!

Rainy day

It rained all day here. Bleh. Chris had school and Bryce had a playdate this morning. It was the first time we had people over just for Bryce and it was adorable. I think he had a good time. There was definitely lots of clapping going on.

This afternoon we played letters on the door. In case you can't read it from the picture, here's the sentence we made: chrisandcatdogalligatorpigfedextoqu
Makes perfect sense, right?

Fall day of fun

Chris is in school three mornings a week. We're always so rushed on school days that I try to have fun mornings on our days off.

This morning he slept until 8 (this never happens!). When he woke up we had pumpkin pancakes in a fort. After I put Bryce down for a nap we painted pumpkins. Then, we all went to the playground and met up with one of his friends. After naps we ate pumkin chocolate chip cookies. It was such a perfect day!

Grocery shopping

I put Bryce in the grocery cart for the first time today while Chris was at school!

Dessert

We were eating dinner tonight and Chris said he wanted dessert. I told him we didn't have anything and he said "we do, we do". I asked him what and he said "broccoli". Makes this dietitian Mama oh so proud!

October with Gaga

Gaga was in town last week. We had lots of fun and kept her very busy. The first weekend she was here we went to a fundraiser walk down the East river for Chris' school. It was lots of fun and Chris walked the full thing, almost 2 miles! 

We had painters come the first couple of weekdays she was here, so we had to vacate our apartment during the day. We walked  Times Square (see Starbucks pic) and the Chelsea market. We also got to see Rachel when she was here for the Martha Stewart show! We ate lots of good meals- shake shack, thai, donut plant. On Friday Chris had to get a flu shot, so we took him to ride the turtle carousel and to the playground as a treat.

Friday night we took the ferry to meet Doug and Kristi (Chris' Godmother) at the Brooklyn Bridge. The next day we went to the 9/11 memorial. They did a wonderful job on it, the picture doesn't do it justice. We had a great time and can't wait to see Gaga again soon!

Chris-isms

I love the age of 3 (most of the time). Chris says the funniest things. The other day we were walking to school and he told me he had a hard time going to sleep the night before. I asked him why and he said he was just thinking. I got a little nervous about what was keeping my sweet baby up and asked him what he was thinking about. His reply... "animals".

The same kind of thing happened again when he told me he needed to talk to me about something. I got down at his level and gave him my full attention... this time it was colors that he needed to discuss.
Love him!