Wordless Wednesday: Jump!
Wednesday, October 2nd, 2013Playing catch up with literally everything in my life, but at least the weather is gorgeous.
Posts Tagged ‘fall’
My Week(152) in iPhone Photos
Monday, September 30th, 2013This post is late and I got less than 3 hours of sleep in the last 24 hours and I barely remember how I got home from the airport last night and Caroline is sitting on my lap with her slightly terrifying My Little Pony Equestria Girl introducing her to all the princess dolls and I have 5 photo sessions to edit so what I’m saying is if this post makes none sense don’t be surprised.
Sunday:
Princess Pirate Butterfly Caroline’s new best friend, the Dragon Ice Cream dragon
Evan defends his family against a zombie puppet
Sleepy, smudgy butterfly
Who knew a Kohl’s parking lot could be so inspiring?
Monday:
I don’t even know.
Sand castles on our deserted beach
About 20 seconds later Caroline and her friends smashed them all.
Tuesday:
They’re having a mini-conference on how best to beg me for that candy on the counter
Cleaning and trying out my headphones for an upcoming post
Shooties. Verdict after wearing them all weekend: Wise choice! Very comfortable for high heels, lots of compliments, only felt slightly like I have hooves.
Wednesday:
Who is this huge person going to preschool and where is my baby?
Another stunning fall day in Connecticut (Town Hall)
Watching Monsters University (again! We saw it in the theater!) with the kids
Thursday:
I took a picture of my parking garage level/number to I didn’t have to remember when I can back at 1 am Monday. BRILLIANT. Worked perfectly.
Boston!
Random MARTA station in Georgia where my friend Miranda picked me up!
Friday:
Average attention span in 2012: 8 SECONDS. Now you know why we needed a session on writing engaging content.
All cleaned up for dinner with my other Minute Clinic bloggers at Type A
The crazy cab ride was worth it to get to this place. AMAAAAAAZING.
Saturday:
In case you were wondering, THAT is an Equestria Girl. I managed to snag one when they were breaking down the booth on Sunday.
My next DIY, obvs.
Atlanta was really pretty
Step 1 in getting back to my real life: write down all the stuff on the calendar I’ve been ignoring because it was “in October” and “October is a really long time from now”. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh <– the sound I just made looking at the stack of papers from the kids’ schools talking about open house nights and PTO meetings and pizza parties. Back to work!
Connecticut Renaissance Faire {2013}
Thursday, September 26th, 2013We went to the Connecticut Renaissance Faire (the extra e is absolutely necessary) last weekend. It was ANOTHER Sunday that E was able to join us (Two in a row! I’m getting spoiled!) and it was probably the most fun day we’ve had in a really, really long time. We are just dorky enough to think people in costume talking to us in fake Olde English accents is fantastic, and the kids were basically in heaven with tons of people talking to them and calling them Princess Caroline and Brave Sir Evan. We’d only been there 20 minutes and Caroline was already a Butterfly Princess Warrior, Evan had a sword and shield, and E had a giant turkey leg. I blew through every dollar in my wallet during our 3 hours there and I regret nothing.
Caroline is a face paint champ already.
What does the fox say?
This girl’s costume was amazing (and she must have been MELTING inside those fur pants).
The dragon gave her beads and said “Never do anything for beads!”
This acrobat was unreal. How is that even possible????
Both kids loved that turkey leg.
Evan could barely fight he was laughing so hard.
Victory!!
This guy put one of the fancy hats on Evan and I said “Sorry honey, I don’t have enough money.” Evan grabbed the kid-sized hat and said “This one isn’t too ‘spensive!” He was right.
That’s Caroline’s angry pirate face.
Of course Caroline got a tiny sword too.
King Henry VIII. Not sure which wife that is. Katherine? The first one?
I have no idea why there was a guy selling these super cool puppets, but he let the kids play with them and they LOVED it.
Watching the Trash to Treasure show
Authentic Olde Tymee Root Beer Floats
My kids are such participators. They both RAN up on stage to be bears in the Betty White and the Three Bears and the Beanstalk (or whatever this crazy show was called).
I’m hoping we can go back again before they leave in mid-October. We didn’t even get to see the rat circus or the jousting!
My Week(151) in iPhone Photos
Sunday, September 22nd, 2013It’s feast or famine this week: some days a took a ton of pictures, some days I took almost none. I think my real problem is I need yoga pants with pockets, so I can keep my phone with me all the time.
Sunday:
I guess this weather is OK.
Super excited to hang out with Daddy
Sunday = Football
Monday:
Sharing
Park to ourselves
Nicely done, kind-of-sketchy-park, you look extremely respectable.
We made it down this aisle without buying ANY candy. It’s a Stop and Shop Miracle!
Tuesday:
Cat as still life
I live with a bunch of weirdos.
Wednesday:
Picture day at school mean cool kid clothes instead of the uniform
I WANNA TAKE THE PICTURE! – tiny selfie addict
Newborn session set up
Thursday:
This is the only picture I have from Thursday. I can’t remember a single thing we did.
Friday:
Rapunzels.
Newborn set up on Friday (in my own room, where it was ONE BILLION DEGREES…but the baby loved it)
Saturday:
I feel bad for the person whose job it is to keep these tables clean.
Birthday cupcakes for the Cabbage Patch Kids!
Watching trains from the train
Passed out on the Metro North. It was a busy day!
This week is going to be bananas (B A N A N A S) so apologies if you’re staring at this post forever and/or for the extremely photo heavy posts I might put up instead. We’ve done a lot of fun stuff over the last few weeks but I’m having a hard time finding actual WORDS to talk about them instead of just letting pictures do it. But a picture is worth a thousand words, so really I’m writing like, 20,00 words a day. YOU’RE WELCOME.
My Week(150) in iPhone Photos
Sunday, September 15th, 2013I actually saw my husband this week! On more than one occasion! It was actually the best week we’ve had in a really long time, even if the kids were so exhausted by Sunday they both passed out at 5 pm.
Sunday:
Early morning photo session at the arboretum
Mystic Drawbridge Ice Cream at Taste of Mystic
More perfect weather. Well done, Connecticut.
Monday:
Playing SO NICELY together before school
Daddy met the bus for the first time ever
GO TO CHILI’S AND ORDER THIS THING IMMEDIATELY
Tuesday:
Still wicked happy to get on the bus for school every day
Twirling is her favorite
Squeaky clean
Wednesday:
I AM READY FOR THE BEACH WHY ARE WE NOT AT THE BEACH?
NOW we are at the beach. He spent 2 hours in the (cold) water.
FASHUN
Thursday:
Imaginary hopscotch
Basically all my pictures are waiting for a bus these days.
Hide and seek! BET YOU CAN’T FIND CAROLINE.
Friday:
Eat this with cream cheese and/or honey.
BFFs
I can’t help it, this might be my favorite set of photos ever (also, Evan took this, he was like “TAKE A PICTURE OF THE PRINCESS!!!”)
Saturday:
“Daddy made yummy pancakes!” he says in the pancake restaurant.
Fairy Princess Caroline reads to Candy Crush Dragon Daddy
And Daddy reads to the gingers
I had forgotten how nice it was to have someone to help with bedtimes or go out to dinner with or help wrangle the kids at the apple orchard. I know I’m not a single parent – NOT EVEN CLOSE – but doing all the parenting on a day to day basis was really starting to wear me down. But a week of school and TWO meals out (not to mention a beach day where the kids built sand castles while I read a magazine) plus seeing my husband enough times that our conversation didn’t go like this: “HiIhavetobebackatworkinsixhoursbutIneededtotellyouIamoutofdeoderantandalso
canyoufindmykhakihatIloveyougoodnightzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.”
I don’t have a lot of hope the next week will be as nice, but I have two super fun things coming up (a Saturday in NYC with the kids and THREE DAYS in Atlanta without the kids) that are going to make September just totally fly by.
