Birthday weekend #1

We had a beautiful weekend of weather and enjoyed every minute of it! On Friday, the kids and I spent 3 hours on the canal...walking, fishing, picnicking,"hiking" and pine cone-eating. Foster is still obsessed with his new fishing rod, and although no fish paid much attention to the plastic alligator tied to the line, an ENORMOUS bullfrog almost swallowed the whole thing down. For size, the alligator is about 3 inches long. We had the neighbors over for a little party for Foster on Saturday and I think by the pictures you can tell one of his favorite people in the world (other than family of course) is Robert Eyre. Foster thoroughly enjoyed all of the festivities, especially his banana cake! The small picnic table was our present to him for his birthday. It's turned out to be a magical table....he'll sit by himself alone and content for a long time, even if we aren't outside! We'll see if that persists when the newness wears off. Sunday we took both kids to the Red Sox game after not being able to find a sitter. The game went as expected...with little baseball actually watched, but Foster had a good time, particularly the ice cream sundae. Unfortunately there was a major traffic jam leaving the game and it took us two hours to get home. Both kids and parents were exhausted....but happy to be home. Looking forward to birthday weekend #2 with the Littles and Morrises next weekend!

Mimi's visit

We had such a great time with Mimi visiting last week for Mother's Day weekend. Most the pictures are on Mimi's camera, but here are a few from the past week. I'll update more with her pics. Foster is LOVING his new fishing rod (early Bday present from Mimi) and fishing vest. He'll never settle for a fake stick rod again! Thanks mimi-

PJs

Loves this puck 

Baseball with Mimi

Berry season!

The obsessed fisherman
 

Hungry hippos

We had a nice day on Saturday and a super nice spring day on Sunday. We spent Saturday morning at the Philly Zoo, which is always a hit. We timed it well with the feeding of the hippos, which I think may be Foster's favorite animal to see. They are usually quietly sitting underwater but this time they were diving around after each other and then in response to a bell, they walked over to the wall in tandem to be hand fed. Molly's helmet was appropriately decorated for the zoo, totally unplanned

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Sunday was a gorgeous day which we spent at the park in the morning. Foster insisted on wearing a headband I brought home from a conference and his new shades. That is his "thumbs up" sign. Hasn't quite mastered it yet.

Foster's daycare had a festival which we stopped by for a quick moon bounce...not Foster's favorite thing, but Chris convinced him to give it a try. Ironically his old daycare also had a festival which we stopped by in the afternoon and said hello to his old teachers. Thankfully we are still very happy where he and Molly are now! Molly started crawling this weekend...slow and steady, but already getting into everything! She particularly likes to dismantle every CD we have in our entertainment system, which is a relatively safe activity to keep her occupied for 20 minutes. It's worth the 20 minutes it takes me to clean up! She is still wearing the helmet most of the time, but I try to snap pictures when she has it off.