Gymnastics!

Oh, how I have missed Rebounders. Andrew tells me all the time he misses his friends from there too. We missed signing up in the fall but I got both boys in at the same time at a place called NYCElite. Elite really just means "give me all your money so your kid can jump around in some space for 50 minutes." Really though, Andrew loved his first class and I think Ryan will love it once he lets go of my hand. Hope we can continue all summer!

Playground time!

It has been sooo nice out the last few days that we had to venture out. Over the weekend it was still a little chilly but we made it to Central Park and let the boys climb around and kick the soccer ball. Andrew loves this Alice in Wonderland Statue. 

 Then on Tuesday we made it up to Asphalt Green which has a great playground. Lots of swinging and climbing apparatus. Ryan really thinks he is at least 4, always having to do what Andrew is doing.

 This is Andrew's friend Noah from school. They were the last two on this train of 8-12 year olds going down the slide about a bizillion times.

 We were slack on getting Grandma Sherri a card, but we made this one instead!

The kids got some balloon swords and did lots of sword fighting for about 5 minutes before Ryan popped his.

This momma CAN'T wait for summer!! Or at least Spring!

Chinese New Year

We took our first trip down to Chinatown to enjoy Chinese New Year with some other KPMG friends. We went to a restaurant called Jing Fong and enjoyed some dim sum.  We really had no idea what we were actually eating, but it was all pretty yummy and Ryan even ate some. Andrew only ate the outside of the egg custard tart, of course. After we ate some dragons came into the restaurant and dance around and are blessing the building. We also saw them outside going into all the different stores. You can put money in their mouth and rub their faces for good luck. I really had fun and can't wait to go next year. Olivia-you may have to join us this weekend so you can help us know what we are eating:)

Ryan was really unsure of these dragons. It was actually quite funny.

   This is baby Peter. Ryan loves him and is probably waiting until he is a little bigger so he can start to beat up on him.

 I LOVED this sign. It says, "New Yorkers aren't better than anyone else. We just dress like it." These Mini storage signs are always great, and I hadn't seen this one yet.

 A lot of us caught the same train to come home. Here is the Mattson family minus Daddy Travis!

Mall Trip

We made it to our first mall in Paramus, NJ today with Cady, Adela and Peter. Cady wanted to get some pictures of Peter made at Picture People so I took Adela and we rode the carousel and browsed some stores. The kids loved it and it was so nice to get out (and see a mall!) Adela did not want to get off her pink horse because someone else might steal it and Ryan didn't want to get off period. Nor did he want me to let go of his hand while he was riding! Such cuties! And shopping with Adela was so different. She picked out lots of sparkly, sequency things! Much different from our trucks and dinosaur shirts. 

Random Thursday

We started out the day like this-as superheroes,

Got to visit with Mrs. Oakley, my high school pre-calc teacher and Cheerleading coach (Andrew took this for us!)

 And ended it  like this-skyping with Uncle Mike in London. We had a great day!

Annual Valentines Flowers

The boys got to do the conversation heart vase all by themselves this year. It was successful until Ryan figured out he could eat them. Also notice how CRAZY Ryan's hair is getting. I absolutely love it and need to get some good pictures of it before it gets long and the curls fall out.

The Naked Chef

I have been meaning to post about this, but somehow keep forgetting. In the building across from us and down a floor or two, there lives a little (or well, well endowed) woman who likes to cook and clean in the,well, ahem, nude. Sometimes she may don her underpants, but most of what we can see is just the top half anyway. Cooks, washes dishes, rolls dough. You name it, we have probably seen it.  Oh apartment living, some days you make me laugh:)