John Jay with friends, Southstreet Seaport, Imagination Playground & Bastille Day

The heat wave is in full effect so we are trying to do whatever we can to stay cool!!

Ryan has slowly been making his way to the top. I saw him from across the park up here. Guess he is closer to 4 than 3 now…..

Just relaxing with our 'naners

                                               Some little guy is a jumping/moving man

We headed down to Southstreet Seaport to look around and go to the Imagination Playground. We thought it would take us about 30 minutes, but took over an hour to get here on the bus because of traffic! I would love to come back and look around some more!

It rained while we were down here but the kids didn't mind. Chris and I ducked under some equipment with Julian and they kept going. Its a cool playground, but these blocks made it extra special

                        It apparently really wore Chris and Ryan out, but Andrew and Julian were still partying

We headed down to 60th street for the Bastille Day celebration but it wasn't the best idea. Mommy fail. Too hot, WAAAAy to crowded. 1.5 mile walk down for watermelon and 1.5 mile walk back for an ice cream stop.

Some big brothers left this toy out and I found it...

Julian still isn't a huge fan of food. We are working on it. He definitely likes veggies more than fruit, but is really questioning them.

5 Months old!!

This sweet thing is already 5 months! We have been sleep training and he is starting to catch on. Hopefully it will click with him soon! He is really starting to sit up well, laughing up a storm and grabbing whatever he can to pull next to him. He LOVES to eat his feet, definitely more than the other two boys. 

He is so big but still my sweet little baby. He NEVER falls asleep while I am holding him, but this is a friend who is a nanny for some friends and she apparently had the magic touch!

CMOM, crafts, Intervals

I was trying to capture Julian rolling all the way over. He didn't really want me to capture it though. He is a rolling machine.

Just swinging and thumb sucking.

We were attempting a "phases of the moon" activity with oreos. Instead it turned in to "can we eat them, can we eat them, can we, can we." So I poured some milk and Andrew asked what for. Have I really deprived you until age 6 to dip oreos. Oh my, I am so sorry.

Mike was touring with Intervals and we got to see the show! Dottie came up and the three of us went to this cute venue in Little Italy to see him perform. All instrumental and very cool. Awesome job Mike!

Andrew got picked by the swim lottery for swim lessons. Parents weren't allowed on the deck so that is why these are so far away. He did a great job!

While Grammy was here we ventured over to the Children's Museum of Manhattan.  Andrew hadn't been in about a year and a half and Ryan was there in January. It is such a cute place and they really had fun and got to do a lot of crafts this time around.

I don't think these videos actually show up. I'll work on that. Julian is laughing like crazy at his big brothers these days. It is quiet funny.

This was hilarious. I told the boys to write any numbers on paper slips 1-12. They could write all 1's, all 10's, etc. They both chose to do one of each. Then I gave them raisins and chocolate chips to count out to match the numbers. Of course they went through the chips first. I had not counted how many I had-I just poured some in. Apparently I had too many. After Andrew ate all his I asked which numbers had raisins. Turned out he ate 60 something chips. Oh my….