Derby Party

Boston

Wednesday: We left around dinnertime & drove 6 hours to Albany.

Thursday:

• Morning:  Woke up, ate, swam! Drove to Boston. 
• Afternoon: Checked into our room at the historic Parker House, which is the oldest continually running hotel in the US and also where the Boston Cream Pie was created.
• Evening:  We took the boys to the traveling circus, (see the tent in the pic below). We saw 50+ officers and 2+ helicopters on our 5 block walk to Faneuil Hall for tickets. We stayed for the first half, then left because it was too loud for both of them.

Friday - Lock-Down Boston:

• 8am:  Dad called to make sure we were ok and aware of the situation in Boston.
• 10am:  We are safely camped out in our hotel room at the Omni Parker House. Today, the city is so quiet- even taxi service is shut down. The grooms and guests are stuck at Boston airport. Our hotel room has two connected rooms, attached with a door. The baby is napping in the business/fun room with pull-out couch and TV; we're hanging out with Kaden in bedroom, watching TV and playing games.
• Noon: The grooms are safely at their hotel. We are cozy in our room, looking at room service menu. Kaden is enjoying sharing the giant bed w/us while watching PBS and playing on the 3 iPhones. Room service lunch is en route!
• 3:00:  City still on shut down. No tuxedos because shop is closed, no marriage license and the Pre-wedding event tonight has been canceled because the bar is closing early!! :(  We are still comfy in hotel... Baby took long nap, we all enjoyed Room Service and are just chillaxin'!
• 7:00: Rode the elevator many. many times and walked around hotel... Ordered pizza & pasta, watching Kaden's fav movie, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. We discovered that our window opens just enough to get some fresh air and listen to the tolling bells from a nearby church. 

Saturday: 

• Walk to the Aquarium.
• Ride on the Duck Tours... Kaden got to drive the boat on the Charles River! Carson slept. 
• Baby-sitter came & had tons of fun with Kaden while we went to a wedding.l

Regular View - see the circus, dock boats and cars?

Lock-down- Only a few police officers monitoring the parking garage

King of the Castle! Room service while Boston was in lock-down.

Driving the Duck Boat on the Charles River

Teeth.

Little Carson cut his 3rd tooth! It is his right tooth on the top and it is bothering him very, very much. :*(

St. Patrick's Day

Had fun today w/our friends... Little C is playing in his crib at 11:14pm, kicking the side of his crib, sideways in his crib, on the verge of rolling over. He is busy scratching his sheets and practically rolling over... Smuggling into his blankets b/c he looooves to cover his face. Then, he looks up into the Red camera light and its like he is looking into your eyes, saying hello! Life is good.

5 months.

Two teeth... two wonderful boys.

So much to update!

I'm taking notes on things to update, but wanted to quickly jot things down...

Getting into bed tonight, we heard sleeping Kaden shout out, "wait for me!" His voice had such a sad note and it was everything I could do not to go hug him and tug him in even tighter. Ok, who am I kidding... I'm going to do that.

Valentine's Day

Kaden typed this into the Google search bar:

• nomamomdaddykaden1258445698

Suzy Homemaker

So happy after helping w/the Valentine's day party at preschool... But also loving my kitchen!

Friday- lasagna (homemade, but from freezer)
Saturday- beef stroganoff (for company)
Monday- meatloaf (made 2, one in freezer)
Tuesday- ?
Wednesday- leftover lasagna
Thursday- jambalaya
Friday- pork chops

Christmas 2012 - Cinci

We went down to the family reunion/Christmas party in Cincinnati, plus celebrated a fun Christmas with Kyle's family at his parents farm.