Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Happy Birthday, BoPa!

We were very excited to help BoPa celebrate turning 70.


What better way to honor him than with a family chocolate brunch?


The highlight was helping BoPa blow out his candle...fortunately they didn't try to fit one for each year on the molten chocolate cake.

Sunday, January 29, 2012

Ice Cake-pades with Liam

Liam and BoPa share a birthday, only 65 years apart. This year, I celebrated with BoPa in Florida, so I missed Liam's festivities, but our mommies decided to plan a pre-birthday shindig. It began in Central Park for ice skating.


Go "figure," you and daddy were quite a "combination" and fortunately not k-"lutzes" on the ice.


The evening ended with a not-so-"clean program" of pizza and cupcakes.

Monday, January 16, 2012

Now Museum, Now You Don't

Our January was filled with fun museum adventures with friends:

1. Children's Museum of the Arts with Ella and Emily where we learned to make Flubber, which serves as an excellent glove.


2. Steppingstones with Daya, where Liana rode bikes with a skeleton...


...and Daria caught a wave on her surfboard.


3. Then we spent a fun day with Ari at Wave Hill where we worked on scary animal masks.


4. We also celebrated Linnea and Jamie's birthdays. He's old enough to be in a museum and she's pretty enough to be in a museum.

Friday, January 6, 2012

California Dreamin'

Mom was sent to "work" in California, so we tagged along...and aren't we glad we did! Our hotel has the largest-diameter round pool in the US, and we spent a lot of time inside it.


Brianna and Liana spent a lot of time in the middle.


Of course we had to get out of the pool to test out the local ice cream...


...some of which we scooped ourselves.


We know how to get warm inside.


When we were done with the OC, we headed to LA, to hang with K, V, and M...


..and then with Jemma and her parents.


It's amazing we could "Getty" all nine of us to smile for a photo - must have been the beautiful setting.


What a fun family vacation!

Sunday, January 1, 2012

Still Writing MMXI On Our Checks...

Welcome to the new year! We put on our party hats for our annual pajama brunch.

Mommy and daddy also got all dressed down...

...and a good time was had by all.