tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15479115617964334872024-02-20T20:52:04.335-05:00Baby Z!miss.marnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06955745171972762571noreply@blogger.comBlogger612125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1547911561796433487.post-16729982232062997082018-01-23T20:23:00.000-05:002018-01-23T20:23:28.115-05:00What is notable about this outfit?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Milo put on every piece by himself. Monday underpants, pants, button down shirt, socks, shoes, and the zipper of his jacket.<br />
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Also tonight, we were reading "Where the Wild Things Are", and Milo saw the letters MAX on Max's boat. He spelled it out, and then said "Wild Thing!" I told him to make the sound of each letter, then we slowly strung them together. "Ax!" he said. "Put an Mmmmm at the front." His eyes got all giant and he said "Max!" and he laughed and was super proud. He'll be reading in no time.miss.marnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06955745171972762571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1547911561796433487.post-60458401903364355292017-12-31T23:29:00.002-05:002017-12-31T23:29:55.209-05:00Happy (?) New Year10 days ago, we lost my beautiful mother, Ronnie Sussman. The kids are dealing, I am dealing, but it makes celebrating her birthday (yesterday) and the New Year very difficult. Aunt Jodi has been staying downstairs, and we've been going back and forth to Queens to see Papa Dan, but most of the time we've been trapped in the house due to extreme cold and there's been an aura of sadness and grief. While we know these won't last forever, I may be even more absent than usual for a while. We'll see.<br />
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Yesterday, Milo figured out buttons!<br />
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He unbuttoned and buttoned up his pajamas tonight as well!<br />
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We discussed our resolutions for 2018 - Alex has decided to get back to writing more, Penny would like to cook more and try new foods, and I am going to craft more and get back to moving my body regularly. Milo should be able to write his name without help and be well on his way to reading.<br />
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We are spending tonight at home with a bunch of snacks and a 500 piece puzzle. It is my sincere hope that 2018 is better than 2017 in basically every single way. From all of the Zalbens to you and yours, Happy New Year.<br />
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<br />miss.marnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06955745171972762571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1547911561796433487.post-29273274255312873232017-12-19T21:56:00.002-05:002017-12-19T21:56:32.813-05:00Happy Chanukah!Tonight is the last night of Chanukah, and Milo had a performance and party through his school. Unfortunately, Penny wasn't feeling well, so she and Alex stayed home. I took a ton of photos, though, so you can attend vicariously, as they did!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Morah Dini finds Milo's candle crown</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our first activity downstairs was making an edible dreidel. Marshmallow fluff glue to hold on a chocolate chip point, with a pretzel stick to spin.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The only part of the dreidel Milo was interested in.</td></tr>
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<br />miss.marnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06955745171972762571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1547911561796433487.post-87489996772379173682017-12-17T04:17:00.000-05:002017-12-17T04:17:06.917-05:00Dear Penny<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">(That's the Princess of Eight, for those non-Sesame Street nerds among us)</td></tr>
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My girl, you are now eight years old. There is nothing left about you that is a little kid - you are a fully big kid now. At lunchtime, you were showing off your knife skills. You are able to use the food processor to make latkes. You clear your place after meals. My heart is warmed by your genuine gratitude, your kindness, your thoughtfulness and your wisdom beyond your years. Your sense of humor is unbelievable - your timing, your insight, and your awareness of your audience is staggering. You have continued on with tumbling and the violin, and just completed your 12s times table, which means you have collected all of your stars on your math chart. You have started knitting yourself a scarf! I'm sorry I passed that obsession on to you, but I do very much enjoy sitting next to each other on the couch knitting together.<br />
This weekend, Star Wars: The Force Awakens opens, and we are taking four friends to see it as your party. You get so excited thinking about this - so delighted about how happy your friends are going to be to see it with you, and so thrilled about another Rey movie. I hope that this whole year is full of things that please you that much. I hope that you are able to find joy in friends and your family, that you continue to devour books and that you see yourself in all of them.<br />
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Happy birthday to the greatest, bestest, special kissiest girl I've ever met.<br />
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Don't grow up too fast, ok?<br />
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<br />miss.marnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06955745171972762571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1547911561796433487.post-75210702953302052032017-11-01T14:59:00.002-04:002017-11-01T14:59:52.014-04:00Halloweeeeeeeeeen!This year, Halloween started two weeks ago, with a visit to Boo at the Zoo - my favorite Fall activity. The kids wore costumes that they weren't going to be wearing on the actual day, and we had a great, gorgeous day at the zoo!<br />
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Actual Halloween was finally the weather I remember - high 40s - so chilly enough to need a layer or two and not end up sweaty at the end of trick or treating. The neighborhood went all out, as usual, and everyone loved our Wonder Woman and Super Donut.<br />
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Happy Halloween!miss.marnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06955745171972762571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1547911561796433487.post-60070259097691705972017-10-11T15:18:00.002-04:002017-10-11T15:19:57.220-04:00The flu?Last night, while getting changed into pajamas, Milo told me that the Band-Aid covering his flu shot injection site was bothering him. I offered to take it off (it's been on there for more than a week) and he slapped his hand over it, looked up at me with his giant puppy eyes and asked in all seriousness "Mommy, if I take off this Band-Aid am I going to get the flu?"<br />
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My heart shattered. He's so capable yet so very tiny. What a complicated giant world we are throwing our children into, and how many things like this is he afraid of all the time?miss.marnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06955745171972762571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1547911561796433487.post-80924969776646740652017-10-07T15:06:00.002-04:002017-10-07T15:06:45.125-04:00Family Friday!The first Family Friday of third grade was yesterday! Penny is still in the mini-school, so we drop her off in the big yard and she takes herself inside. We were so excited to get to join her for a peek into what her days are like.<br />
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When we got n, we received our assignment - dressing up paper dolls for Halloween. Penny made a witch and we collaborated on a Nearly Headless Nick that I'm pretty proud of:<br />
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She is also a musician, and was going to record after her day with us, which meant she had a French horn with her. I tried to play it, and it is genuinely hard, but neither kid has a problem with it. This video is after Milo stopped scaring himself by making sound:<br />
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<br />miss.marnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06955745171972762571noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1547911561796433487.post-65851244261512192482017-10-02T21:48:00.000-04:002017-10-02T21:48:30.612-04:00Milo's 3 year old check up!Milo had a doctor's appointment today, and though he really did not want to go, he rocked it. He is now 30 lbs 8 oz, and 37 1/2 inches tall. There is a new crazy machine that the nurse holds across the room that somehow measures your focal distance, but also it chirps like a bird and flashes red and blue lights, and I'm pretty sure it's magic.<br />
Our pediatrician, Dr, Julie, is totally the best. She had a big chat with Milo, talked him through the otoscope, which he was really nervous about, and answered the question he had been waiting all day to ask. Milo has just learned that everyone used to be a baby, so he asked her if she used to be one too.<br />
At the end of the appointment, he got a flu shot, and though there was crying, he was very brave. As we were leaving, Milo said to me "I don't like shots!" and I told him the incredible secret of shots - NOBODY likes shots. This blew his mind.<br />
After the appointment Milo got to choose where he wanted to go, and he chose the playground. We spent a little while playing the most 2017 game possible - me chasing Milo with him shouting "Don't take a picture of me!"<br />
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<br />miss.marnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06955745171972762571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1547911561796433487.post-35251900231756417982017-09-13T14:06:00.003-04:002017-09-13T14:06:40.616-04:00Milo's Orientation Day/First day!Milo had an hour of Orientation at Chai Tots on Monday, and his first full day yesterday! He is now officially in Nursery!<br />
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This morning on the way to school we stopped to watch a baby squirrel try to climb a tree. It took a really long time, working on various strategies, and eventually fell about three feet. It hopped right back up onto the tree to try again. As we walked on we talked about it, and Milo said that maybe its Mama Squirrel would be able to help it. Or its Big Sister Squirrel. Or its Morahs. We talked about all of the helpers we could think of and it warmed my heart that he is taking all of the pieces that he's being given from school and home and thinking about them in real-life ways.miss.marnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06955745171972762571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1547911561796433487.post-5754974524774247302017-09-08T11:59:00.002-04:002017-09-08T11:59:38.645-04:00First day of third grade!Penny had her first day of school yesterday, and she could not have been more excited to be a third grader. Dropoff was chaos, as usual, and I still can't get used to just leaving her in the yard and not getting to see the inside of her classroom until October, but she is a total pro at school.<br />
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While Penny was at school, I decided Milo needed a lesson as well, so he learned how to use scissors. One LL Bean catalog sacrificed for the greater good.<br />
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Also, because I can't help myself, we laid out all of the Early Reader books and I showed him what "Dr. Seuss" looks like and he picked out which ones were written by him, and the three that were not. LEARNING.<br />
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She had some math homework, we did a bunch of paperwork, and that's it. She's in third grade for real. She's going to learn cursive and have computer lab and chess and all sorts of real things. I am so happy to be getting back into the swing of things - Summer is great, but we love school around here!miss.marnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06955745171972762571noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1547911561796433487.post-59202789212199678482017-08-25T22:53:00.000-04:002017-08-25T22:53:13.558-04:00CuniculusSurprise! Penny lost a tooth today, and believe me when I say she was just as surprised as the rest of us. Unlike the last tooth, which hung on by a thread through three countries, this one was barely wiggly, and fell out into her hand after a bite of cheeseburger.<br />
Now that she is missing teeth from either side of her top fronts, she has achieved Full Rabbit.<br />
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For bed tonight, instead of pajamas he requested to just wear underwear, like Penny, so that's going on. I took him to the bathroom at 11pm as I was headed to bed, and his eyes opened but there was nobody home. It was creepy, but he peed, so hopefully his bed will stay dry tonight! Fingers crossed!</div>
miss.marnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06955745171972762571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1547911561796433487.post-23269826630764682632017-08-16T21:16:00.001-04:002017-08-16T21:16:49.689-04:00Toothless wonder<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16.64px;">We got back from an 11 day Scandinavian vacation four days ago, and Penny had a wiggly tooth for a couple of days before that. Penny's wiggly tooth has seen three countries. I brought along some Tooth Fairy supplies, but they turned out to be unnecessary. When I spoke to the camp counselor about it this morning, she let me know that they'd had a lost tooth on Monday and Tuesday already, so Penny completed the hat trick today.</span><br />
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Oh, also, last week I asked you how your temperature was, as it pertained to which pajamas you should wear. You told me you did not have a fever. I asked you if you were hot or too cold and you said "I'm good. I don't have any tentacles. Jellyfish don't have bones."<br />
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And while waiting for dinner in a restaurant, you were reading the cocktail menu. All of a sudden you looked up and said "I got an email! It says 'When you grow up, you are going to be...an ostrich!'"miss.marnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06955745171972762571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1547911561796433487.post-70446447470159998772017-07-12T16:44:00.000-04:002017-07-12T16:44:27.967-04:00July catch up!July has flown by - I can't believe it's almost half over!<br />
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Penny and Milo took their scooters out, and both have gotten quite good at scooting:<br />
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My aunt threw an early Fourth of July BBQ, for which I baked this ridiculous (but delicious) cake:<br />
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There were tattoos and glowsticks and all sorts of patriotism:<br />
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Penny had her first day of camp:<br />
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And afterwards, there was a screening of "Muppets Take Manhattan" in Bryant Park. A friend of mine arranged for a big meetup to make puppets, so we all met on the lawn. Penny and I did not stay for the movie, but we did make puppets:<br />
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One of the weird things about social media is that you sometimes find yourself documented in other people's photos. A high school friend of mine was also at the screening, and we are in her photo of the crowd!:<br />
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Afterwards I had Penny demonstrate her Patience and Fortitude:<br />
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Penny stayed up to watch fireworks with me, making three days in a row that she stayed up past 9:30pm. This girl is living the life!miss.marnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06955745171972762571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1547911561796433487.post-63181823896200132132017-06-28T10:13:00.001-04:002017-06-28T10:13:36.880-04:00First day/last day - Second Grade!<div class="IMGi15cef0907b8cb9899851">Today is Penny's last day of school for the year! She is leaving second grade knowing how to add single digits in her head up to 13, read four chapter books at once, do a cartwheel, play the violin, and with six permanent teeth.</div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr_kojg2JTaeRl308I12F8epJvojUYwoNBMLXj6OhyphenhyphensZH0zxO6ByhUxBd8eXgrQzqpPn1yoICQQua0G0Q5Fd5bJGKy18pUEw2kkmJflnvVAlCwEd83A4opmBzvBHzPYlqekUWXkny9B3Zf/s1600/1498658951220-716882.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr_kojg2JTaeRl308I12F8epJvojUYwoNBMLXj6OhyphenhyphensZH0zxO6ByhUxBd8eXgrQzqpPn1yoICQQua0G0Q5Fd5bJGKy18pUEw2kkmJflnvVAlCwEd83A4opmBzvBHzPYlqekUWXkny9B3Zf/s320/1498658951220-716882.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6436692339268885026" /></a><div class="IMGi15cef0907b8cb9899851"><br></div> miss.marnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06955745171972762571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1547911561796433487.post-90665066681635992182017-06-24T11:26:00.001-04:002017-06-24T11:26:38.108-04:00Milo teaches me something new!<div class="IMGi15cdaac716e130624961">This week was Milo's first week of camp, and at some point they made "jelly rolls". Today, he asked if he could show me how to do it, and of course I agreed. </div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqrvJjUp_GVi8bUEXqkB473LScTHeD4mixBrfhBeVa2jOVx3Ko0tKrAN90Hq8bypd0u49lDbjdYUEaZmJFsCsBstV9-4VSuIrwWvLFjY5KACgZyqB4qLE1ppTsqPLfg4jvwT_z0-CP1I6g/s1600/20170624_111340_001-798110.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqrvJjUp_GVi8bUEXqkB473LScTHeD4mixBrfhBeVa2jOVx3Ko0tKrAN90Hq8bypd0u49lDbjdYUEaZmJFsCsBstV9-4VSuIrwWvLFjY5KACgZyqB4qLE1ppTsqPLfg4jvwT_z0-CP1I6g/s320/20170624_111340_001-798110.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6435226816942392178" /></a><div class="IMGi15cdaac716e130624961">He's getting into letters, so we read Dr. Seuss' ABCs, and he sort of gets it but not really yet. Almost three is so exciting!</div> miss.marnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06955745171972762571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1547911561796433487.post-79055814480099579502017-06-09T21:53:00.002-04:002017-06-09T21:53:47.938-04:00Milo's graduation!Today was Milo's last day in the Toddler class at Chai Tots! He had a wonderful year with his friends, and discovered a deep love for Magna-tiles and puzzles.<br />
I had the honor of being a class mom this year, so things kicked off like this:<br />
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This was really the best reward I could have received. The class performed a number of songs, and did super great!<br />
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After the performance, we headed back to the classroom for snacks and presentations. Each kid got a pailful of goodies, including a certificate and some sweet shades.<br />
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Milo has grown so much this year, and I cannot believe he's almost three!<br />
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That's first day/last day above, and here's the video of the performance below.<br />
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<br />miss.marnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06955745171972762571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1547911561796433487.post-41052635244096693992017-05-28T12:26:00.000-04:002017-05-28T12:27:07.912-04:00Bubbles!I love bubbles. Yesterday, besides the badminton set and frisbees and boomerang, we brought giant bubbles to the park. I think the kids had fun.<div class="IMGi15c4fe1c63d97cdd5251"><br></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqkDFA1iev1YP7kMP8403oTVvPIRBPDVb8z4S8TgeNbEzhA3FPMQVEauVTdYNFlAv-NH8Ym82gW0IXgyCMQp388NEQZcsg3nkBBPz9tftX6jU5K8A8_zCjY4fxUTOOFb7hP4r3OZbVZou5/s1600/FB_IMG_1495988805015-727913.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqkDFA1iev1YP7kMP8403oTVvPIRBPDVb8z4S8TgeNbEzhA3FPMQVEauVTdYNFlAv-NH8Ym82gW0IXgyCMQp388NEQZcsg3nkBBPz9tftX6jU5K8A8_zCjY4fxUTOOFb7hP4r3OZbVZou5/s320/FB_IMG_1495988805015-727913.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6425223112587514610" /></a><div class="IMGi15c4fe1c63d97cdd5251"><br></div><div class="IMGi15c4fe1cf9d5e3bae2b2"><br></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7G8mqCTiv-1HyMoLkMMp613RkB5_utOCQZy_uwf_748UNKUyYn2e93uZx9OirUpAZFhWTAya1t24f4S3sqQJQrmLJdr1GOtq7h5IkEWe0Rz94Z1JjqYxUTFxiLpwOn-D9IvGE1pIl9R7J/s1600/FB_IMG_1495988764376-732714.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7G8mqCTiv-1HyMoLkMMp613RkB5_utOCQZy_uwf_748UNKUyYn2e93uZx9OirUpAZFhWTAya1t24f4S3sqQJQrmLJdr1GOtq7h5IkEWe0Rz94Z1JjqYxUTFxiLpwOn-D9IvGE1pIl9R7J/s320/FB_IMG_1495988764376-732714.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6425223117805894098" /></a><div class="IMGi15c4fe1cf9d5e3bae2b2"><br></div><div class="IMGi15c4fe1c63d97cdd5251"></div> miss.marnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06955745171972762571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1547911561796433487.post-90969157650102842352017-05-14T20:53:00.001-04:002017-05-14T20:53:45.274-04:00Happy Mother's Day!Mother's Day started on Friday for me, with a celebration at Milo's school. He walked and carried his own backpack:<br />
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When we came in there was iced coffee and chocolate muffins waiting for us:<br />
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The kids decorated frames containing photos of us:<br />
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And they gave us cards they had made for us. It was a great morning.<br />
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For the weekend, I decided to celebrate my own motherhood on Saturday, and my mother on Sunday. It was a windy rainy cold day, and our plans were almost scuttled, but I decided to plow ahead and attend the Mother's Day Garden Party at the NY Botanical Gardens. Alex had to work, so I packed the diaper bag full of snacks and we rode the subway to the Bronx. The Garden Party had been moved indoors, but the kids made cards:<br />
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And Penny got her face painted:<br />
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The big draw to the Gardens was the Chihuly exhibit, and there were pieces like this outside:<br />
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And pieces inside that integrated so organically with the environments inside. It was a gorgeous exhibit.<br />
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After lunching and wandering a bit, we walked over to the Zoo, which was empty. We didn't get to see many animals, but Milo did ride a carousel on an animal for the first time:<br />
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Though it was a soggy day, we had a super fun time!<br />
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Today we split up again, and I went to Queens to hang out with my mom, and Alex had the kids. He got me the best Mother's Day gift of all time - he got Milo's hair cut!<br />
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I am so pleased. So pleased that we can do this at bathtime:<br />
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I hope you enjoyed your Mother's Day, everyone! Remember to embrace each moment, because it all goes by so quickly...<br />
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<br />miss.marnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06955745171972762571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1547911561796433487.post-7417706245453713042017-04-19T16:44:00.001-04:002017-04-19T16:44:58.744-04:00Do you know what this is?<div class="IMGi15b87f365fce3fe78611"><br></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB-0ZgZD7GVpuar4rWP9YzfTxbVB-HlanpDdIfIsalXGFvvS3Rh-uIpW6pxWFsmc3WI6NKEOLlsdhaK2LQHwrkhVzr_4zclXk3SuG-LU6G27zDLt9liurxMHO5RVQwGG5rkKEZKCPvSiQu/s1600/20170419_164141-798745.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB-0ZgZD7GVpuar4rWP9YzfTxbVB-HlanpDdIfIsalXGFvvS3Rh-uIpW6pxWFsmc3WI6NKEOLlsdhaK2LQHwrkhVzr_4zclXk3SuG-LU6G27zDLt9liurxMHO5RVQwGG5rkKEZKCPvSiQu/s320/20170419_164141-798745.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6410817222042632546" /></a><div class="IMGi15b87f365fce3fe78611"><br></div><div class="IMGi15b87f365fce3fe78611">This is Penny walking herself to school for the very first time! Agh!</div> miss.marnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06955745171972762571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1547911561796433487.post-36683876571008679522017-04-04T20:52:00.000-04:002017-04-04T20:53:07.158-04:00New tooth!It took quite some time, but Penny's new tooth finally broke through!<div class="IMGi15b3b9988b7aa8fff291"><br></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkzYMnID3t4DA8k-u2G67Csmk1kd5lQpaXr00M2tp7BE2EynPUtQxhHtqT42SP2XHq3D6GKYa7Dly0wwcBJOBzzylc5iRoTvHPVMLQ-H_uZ-VaeTFSEC86Nr1t8EH-m0iPCQ7D2rzmLkR2/s1600/20170404_200148-787160.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkzYMnID3t4DA8k-u2G67Csmk1kd5lQpaXr00M2tp7BE2EynPUtQxhHtqT42SP2XHq3D6GKYa7Dly0wwcBJOBzzylc5iRoTvHPVMLQ-H_uZ-VaeTFSEC86Nr1t8EH-m0iPCQ7D2rzmLkR2/s320/20170404_200148-787160.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6405314900279860498" /></a><div class="IMGi15b3b9988b7aa8fff291"><br></div> miss.marnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06955745171972762571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1547911561796433487.post-20266187308954316962017-03-16T13:43:00.000-04:002017-03-23T13:45:01.816-04:00Magical mornings are exhaustingWe had a snow day on Tuesday and the sidewalks are still covered and the intersections are mostly impassable. Because it's been so cold, the snow is solid, and instead of sinking into it, if you are a small, light person, you can walk along the giant snowbanks. All of this is to say that as of Wednesday, when school and work were back open, Milo has been walking to school instead of taking a stroller. And not just walking, with his boots on, he is a Snow Explorer!<br />
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This morning he found an ice ball that fit into his palm just so. He decided it was a baby squirrel, and he named it Bicycle.</div>
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We showed Bicycle all of the interesting things that were in the window display this morning (the Toy Museum is how I affectionately refer to the pharmacy on the corner that we pass by every day). Milo was searching for a tree "with a hole" to leave Bicycle in, but we could not find one. I suggested we leave him near a half buried bicycle, which Milo thought was hilarious.<br />
We then spent the next 30 minutes walking two blocks to school, making us 20 minutes late. Usually we settle in and read a book and have a snack, but being a Snow Explorer takes a lot of time. I managed my usual rush-rush-go-go-go to let Milo enjoy the snow and see how high he could climb and I think he had a really good time! He probably won't remember it, but I will remember that I gave Milo and Bicycle one magical morning.</div>
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