Visit with Keren and Shay

Sadly my friend Keren from work moved to Whiteplains just months before having her baby.  Well we FINALLY got out there to see the new family and meet baby Yarden.  She unfortunately slept almost the whole time we were there, but when she did finally wake up we got lots of smiles and silly faces!  I understand how you don't wake a sleeping baby...EVER!  The best news is that they are moving back to Boston in a few months. 

The Igloo

Ms. Doyle (the other K1 teacher) decided that since the kids didn't have any snow to play in this year, she would make them a man made igloo!  So...after collecting milk jugs for WEEKS it is finally done.  Lots of kids can play in it AND it even has a rug now for quiet time.
Pretty clever Ms. Doyle!

More Northeastern hockey

To celebrate the 100th day of school some Northeastern Men's hockey players came to Richie's school to visit.  You can see all the pictures of it at the link below.  In the morning I told Richie to tell the hockey player that came to the class that he had his birthday party at one of the men's hockey games.  I knew he wouldn't because he looked skeptical and he would never just raise his hand and say that at school.  When he came home he told me all about meeting the players.  I asked if he told them about his birthday party and he said, "No, I didn't need to because he already knew.  They announced it on the loud speaker at the game so he had to have heard it."  How cute. 

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Check out pics #2 and #7!

Skiing in Maine with friends

Always a great weekend when you mix good friends, Maine and some SNOW!  Who know I would be begging for snow.  It seems strange, but to live in New England and get no snow feels so odd.  Especially since I have a son who LOVES skiing!  Richie took a 2 hour lesson with Maddie at Shawnee Peak on Friday and then skied the afternoon with Chris.  We were so excited to see Maddie on skies and she actually didn't hate it.  It didn't hurt that the mountain was empty so the kids each had private lessons. Then all the boys got in the car early Saturday morning to head to Sunday River.  Richie loves Sunday River ski school since spending two days there last year.  He was excited to start the day on the green team which meant going on the lifts (and the Gondola) all day.  His instructor said he did great and does lots of french fries with less and less pizza (kiddie ski terms based on the direction of their skies).  Check out those french fries in the pic below!  He was so tired at the end of the day he fell asleep with his hand in the bag of Cheetos.
While the boys skied the girls stayed back at the B&B for some snow play time.  We even built a snow woman complete with a carrot nose and sticks for arms.  Well that is until the dogs got at her.  Angela's favorite part was her first babysitting job.  She loved little Nate and making him laugh. 
We are so very lucky!

 

School vacation week

It is school vacation week for Rich (are the kids off more than they are in school or is it just me??) so we have tried to do some fun things since we did not go away.  You can see our project where we turned our hallway into the sea (Richie really did most of this picture!).  The weather was so nice we also got to spend a lot of time outside which is always our real favorite thing to do.  And since Richie didn't have school, but Chris and I had to work, we sent him to Angela's day care the two days I was in the office.  You can see the two of them walking hand in hand to day care together. 
We also had a playdate with our old friend Jackson, swimming at Chris's gym, school friend Natalia's birthday party, and lots of time at the playground.  We are now off to ski with friends in Maine.  Not a bad February break to me!

Dawnie!

The kids and their Dawnie!!!!

basketball

A quick video I took of Richie's basketball game.  The kids are doing SO much better than when they started the season.  They actually keep their hands out of their pockets (well most of the time) and they run back and forth following the ball.  Still funny how Rich is the smallest on the team.  And how he actually loves being out on the court, but HATES when the ball actually comes toward him.