Sunday, January 30, 2011

Sunday School

While technically there isn't school on the weekends, I really love circle time and learning, so I try to make sure it is an all-week activity. This weekend when BoMa and BoPa came to town, I tried to teach them a little something.


You are an excellent teacher, YaYa. The Row, Row song was my favorite part.


Class dismissed!

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Celebrate Good Friends, Come On!

In honor of "Uncle" Jamie and Linnea's birthdays, we threw a little party, complete with balloons...


...and, given how much we love them, a (Colossal Cup)cake!! Have you ever seen anything like it? Well, I've seen less colossal cupcakes, but since we were celebrating two birthdays, we needed something bigger.


"Aunt" Celena and Felix helped them blow out the candles. Actually Felix really wasn't much help. I think he was asleep.


He's a little baby. They sleep a lot. Don't you remember when mommy and daddy first met him at the hospital? No, I wasn't there silly. Well, here's a pic to remind you. Cute, eh?


Back to the party, now, where Linnea and I found a perfect spot to sit and enjoy the fun.


Then at the end of the evening, we exchanged happy birthday hugs!!

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Bath Math: Sisters + Water = Fun

The H20 and bubbles make for an exciting time in the tub.


While it's nice to share the tub, I remember when it was just me. Wait, which bath angel was I? I'm glad we weren't separated at birth. Me too.

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

It's a Shul Thing

We've been spending a lot of time at shul over the last few months helping mommy say Kaddish. The community, particularly the morning minyan, has been so welcoming of us. One of "mommy's shul friends" made us our own prayer book and another handcrafted a tallis for each of us. Mine has purple ribbon and flowers (and mine is pink). While we mostly wear them during services, we also sometimes try them on at home (they pair beautifully with jammies before running some pre-bedtime errands with our baby dolls).


We've now learned enough to start getting aliyot (the honor of being called up to help read from the Torah).


For now, that's shul, folks (we hope to see you at services very soon)!

Sunday, January 9, 2011

Friday, January 7, 2011

We're in a Sunshine State

In preparation for our trip to Fort Lauderdale, we practiced packing our bags...with ourselves. But why do you keep saying we're taking the car?


When we got on the actual plane, one of us studied the safety card in the seat pocket in front of her, while the other concentrated on the Cartoon Network.


While mommy was working, we were lucky to spend a lot of quality time with our Nana, who hosted a mini pool party at her complex.


In return, we introduced her to one of our favorite foods--chicken fingers! (Check out the vintage photo of daddy, Aunt Abi, and Cousin Josh over my left shoulder.)


Still, there was lots of work to be done, so we joined mommy at her company breakfast. We were happy to see Hal, one of our most loyal readers, who is very down-to-earth (in this case, literally).


After a tough day of work, we reunited and took a stroll on the boardwalk...


Then we hit the pool at the hotel to show off our kicks and our "eyes-and-bubbles."


This is how I like to relax.


Even babies work up quite a thirst in this Florida heat.


Where are the papparazzi when you need them?


We had a great time. Fortunately we had the plane ride home to catch up on rest.

Monday, January 3, 2011

New Year, New Ton

We headed up to Newton for the New Year's weekend. It was a long weekend, so we got to see lots of friends and family, including BoMa, BoPa, Aunt Abi, Melissa, Josh, Rachel, and Nora and her parents.


We also got to see some of our scalier friends at the New England Aquarium, which daddy says is unchanged since he was a kid. (Yikes, those penguins must be old.)


Why does daddy keep calling them "meat without feet"?


We had a great weekend. Now it's back to school. (Nice one, sis!)