Meamaw and Grandpa's Summer Visit

Meamaw and Grandpa came to visit Thursday and stayed through the weekend. The past couple summers we spent a week away at a lake house, but this year a few hiccups (and a mischievous toddler) kept us close to home instead.

We've exhausted all the fun places to go nearby so we decided to mostly stick close to home with lots of doll playing, BabySlimJim watching and a trip to the hotel pool for some swimming.

We did manage to get downtown to walk the streets, see the tourists and ride the carousel.

We dragged Meamaw and Grandpa to Huck Finn's Playland- a trip we've promised the girls for weeks.

And we made it to (bring your own) breakfast to the track.

Thanks for coming Meamaw and Grandpa! We had a great visit!

Some Silly Kids

Summer Fun With The Playgroup

With swimming over, trips to take, long weekends away, camps to go to and other summer obligations, even though the playgroup moms got to get together in NYC, the kids haven't seen much of each other. We had to make an effort to get together for a playgroup date. We picked downtown because that used to be our go to playdate: Ducks and (Star)Bucks.

More NH

Because nothing is better than being able to walk out the back door to the pool. Not to mention a break from cooking and laundry!

We took walks, played with bubbles, used the swingset and the zip line...

and of course, did lots of swimming. The girls are both getting so much better, especially LittleL.G., whose confidence in the water has skyrocketed!

It was a nice break and a great long weekend.

Mom's Weekend in NYC

For the first time, a couple of my mom friends and I took a moms only overnight trip to NYC.

We drove in and walked around the city for a while without pushing strollers or stopping every half an hour to find a bathroom or change a diaper or locate a snack somewhere in the diaper bag. We browsed in stores and no one complained they were tired and wanted to go home.

We ate dinner at Beyond Sushi, which felt like very grown up food, way past bedtime and walked around some more, even ending up at a bar and staying out past midnight!

Yesterday we ate breakfast at By Chloe, did a lot of walking, a lot of shopping, had a lovely long coffee break and sat in the salt room at Breathe.

 The kids and dads survived the weekend.

Fun at the Mall and in the Pools