A Revealing Game

One day I was just sitting on the couch watching a disaster unfold. I was impressed when I counted the blankets that had accumulated on the floor. How many blankets can you spot?

Nice? or Scary?

So, we had plans to go to Quincy Market last weekend. But, it was so cold that we didn't end up going. However, we did get to go here!

Check out this restaurant! Nice fireplace with a nice flat screen. Wow this is a great MCDONALDS!!!
What? There's a time limit for eating now?

Oh dang! We better jam. Where the heck are we? Scaryville. There was one small mirror in the bathroom with 2 posters on it.
Here's the close-up.
We left right before our 30 minutes expired on us. If I had found this poster earlier, we would have probably just gone through the drive thru...which had 2 lanes to choose from. WHAT?

It's Spring!...OUTSIDE!

We are lucky enough to live in an apartment complex with a great playground and friends that live close by. We like to go to the playground often. It's one of Maia's favorite things to do. Here she is with her buddy, Gavin.

A couple of weeks ago we went to this "beach" with some friends. It is known as Winchester Beach, Memorial Beach or Sandy Beach. However, it's a lake! Nevertheless, we had fun.

Maia, Porter, and Zachary building their sand castles. Maia was in heaven! She has missed the beach and the sand so much.

Heidi: What has she been up to?

.So, I blog mostly about Maia, maybe because she actually does stuff but Heidi is still here and she is just the sweetest thing. She is still my happy baby and is still so good. She is such a sweetheart. I just love this little angel.

This is typical Heidi waking up from a nap. (pic. taken this morning) All smiles. She didn't get this from me. I'm not the happiest when I wake up.

Heidi has her 2 bottom teeth coming in. YIKES! 3 months old, 2 teeth. Maia was an early teether as well (at 4 months)

Looking cute. Always happy.

Always.

Before Heidi was born we asked Maia what she wanted to name her baby sister. She said, "Big Cow!" That has changed since then...thankfully. A couple weeks ago I was talking to Heidi and looking at her shirt I said, "Are you my big cow?" and Maia quickly said, "Mom, Heidi is not a big cow!" I was beginning to think to myself how sweet Maia is to stick up for her baby sister when she continued, "She's a SMALL cow."

Below is a video of Heidi's first little 'laughs.' Too cute. She is one ticklish baby.

Jammie Preschool: It's SPRING...inside.

Spring is in bloom and here is the proof:

I am loving the springtime blossoms! (I'm grateful that I don't have allergies.) I've been thinking about the "Poppcorn Popping" primary song when I see these pretty trees of all diff. colors of blossoms. I decided to make some of our own "colored blossoms" and do a little craft.
We made some Jell-O popcorn. Very pretty and yummy. And then we made our own springtime trees. Maia decided she wanted to do this craft without her shirt on this time.
The blue thing on the right of her tree is a beehive and there are yellow bees on it. Maia is very creative.
Even though the sun is shining a tiny bit more, it is still cold. Joe stopped at Dunkin' Donuts one morning for a research project and grabbed a cup of hot chocolate. He highly recommended it so Maia and I stopped and checked it out ourselves. Joe was right. It is really good! Better than Starbucks by far- but that's not saying much. I don't like Starbucks hot chocolate.

We did some foot prints (Heidi on the left, Maia on the right)

And hand prints for Mother's Day. This was a present to myself.

Maia likes to help me cook so we baked my favorite chocolate chip cookies one afternoon between projects.

This week we learned about primary colors and color mixing. Maia loved this one.

We also strung some Froot Loops on some yarn. Maia's necklace didn't quite fit so she made a crown instead.

Heidi hanging out.

Tissue paper flowers.

Singing and playing "Five Little Monkeys Swinging in a Tree" (from http://oopsey-daisy.blogspot.com)

Counting 3 candles and preparing for her own birthday coming up this week. (idea comes from http://thoughtsofesme.blogspot.com)

Cheers!

It was beautiful on Saturday so we decided to do some more Boston stuff and enjoy the spring we are beginning to have. We decided to go to Boston Common which is the "Central Park" of Boston. We parked on this street with these cute, old apartments. I liked this little scene so that's why there is a picture of it. I like the flag hanging from the building.

On this same street we found the "Cheers" bar. It wasn't all that impressive- mainly because we don't drink and we had our kids with us. But they were serving drinks inside and it was quite busy. We thought a picture would suffice. There was one thing that I thought was pretty funny in their gift shop- a baby onesie that had the "Cheers" logo on the front, and on the back it read, "I don't even know my name."

This is Boston Common. It was absolutely beautiful. This may be my new favorite place in Boston so far. There was this pretty pond where they have the "Swan Boats,"
and these trees with the most gorgeous blossoms.
There were tulips of all colors there. I loved these red and yellow tulips. I have never seen anything like them.
Joe and I have been watching "John Adams" the 7 part series through Netflix (my dad's brilliant suggestion). It has been really neat to see the history and connect it with the places around here.
This is a fun picture of the city in the background.
We stopped to play a little game of catch on the grass.
More tulips.
Check out these beautiful blossoms! I love! There was "Popcorn Popping" on all the trees. It is just a beautiful spring here.
There was also a carousel in the park that we HAD to check out. Maia picked the frog. Adjacent to this carousel is the Frog Pond which is a shallow pond that turns into a public ice skating rink in the winter. Absolutely darling. There is also a nice big playground close by. We ran out of time. We will be back soon to check it out.

Heidi is 3 months

Heidi is 3 months old! I can't believe it. She is growing so fast. She is still the happiest baby ever. She just smiles all the time. (Smiling's her favorite.) She will smile at 3:00 am when she's hungry. She will smile at strangers. She will smile when you just look at her. She's got a personality that is so cute. She coos and "talks" when she wants some attention. She won't cry (unless she's really hungry). She is still just so calm and sweet. I just love this little girl. She is such a joy.

She is starting to teethe! Her two bottom teeth will be making an appearance soon. She also has some rolls on her thighs. You can see one of them on HER right leg. (The others are covered by her diaper.) Love those rolly thighs!

This was a funny face she made. I thought it was cute.

Preschool?

This past week, we didn't have a lot of "Jammie Preschool." But we did some fun things.

Maia discovered this thing at the playground. It's basically a "Sit-N-Spin" but slightly off the ground. Lots of dizzy fun.

We went to "Monkey Joe's" with her friend Porter and his little bro. Zack. They had a fun time bouncing around and playing on all the inflatable toys.
We did some activities about the body this week. Maia is really close to writing her own name. She knows how to spell it but is starting to write her letters. (She also knows my phone number, area code and all. She just started spouting it off one day. Do I really repeat my phone number THAT many times? I guess you do when you're new in the area.)

We talked about "all the time foods" (aka good for you foods) and "sometimes foods" (aka taste good but shouldn't have all the time). We placed pictures of the "all the time foods" IN the body and the "sometimes foods" OUTSIDE the body. I had fun quizzing Maia which foods belonged where. To Maia, cookies are an "all the time food." (I almost agreed.) Salad is a "never ever food." "I don't like it," she tells me.
We finally finished coloring in her body. She wanted me to help. She told me what to do. One black hand, one yellow hand, purple stripes, brown hair, flowers on the pants, etc. She wanted to do the brown flower on the shirt along with some other details.

I think we'll be working on zoo animals this week. She likes the animals. As a matter of fact, let us introduce you to Maia's newest crib member: "Peach" the white Easter bunny. A sweet gift from Grandpa and Lainie. Maia didn't even have to think about the name. It was obvious that her white bunny was "Peach."