Rachel's 3rd Birthday

This is a little late in coming, but I wanted to share some pictures from Rachel's 3rd Birthday. We invited her friends from preschool and our neighborhood friends. In the end we had 10 children around the age of 3. The Party was held at Wendy's Gymnastics where Rachel has taken classes in the past. It was a ton of fun and all the kids had a fabulous time.
Rachel was a perfect gymnast and showed her friends how to do everything. They were allowed to play on everything for an hour, but about 10 minutes before the hour was up Rachel came out to tell me that "Mommy, I'm tired." It was a great birthday party.

Trials & Tribulations

Oh me - the nap time nightmare. We are at a hard place with Rachel and naptime on the weekends. All reports from the Lollipop Room are that Rachel has no problem at school taking a nap and usually sleeps 1 1/2 to 2 hours. Not so much for Mom and Dad. Today I thought - let's make sure she is tired and gets lots of play time including outside time. She helped me rake leaves and run around outside for over an hour. I wasn't really even committed to her taking a nap at all unless she started acting tired and cranky, which she did. Well it has been an hour and a half so far of upset ranging from kicking walls, loud crying "I want my Mommy!" and other lovely things like that. Brian just reported that she is now quiet but I really don't believe him to be honest. We will see I suppose. Sophie is coming over tonight for a sleep over, too so Rachel needs some rest I think.

Delaware County Fair

Tonight we enjoyed some yummy fair food and rides at the Delaware County Fair. Rachel and Sophia rode on the rides together. Rachel likes pink ice cream (big surprise).

American Natural History Museum

Dinosaurs are so cool

Coney Island

This place is a child's heaven. Perhaps a bit grittier than heaven...

Beach time

New York City!

We had a fabulous vacation visiting Aunt Cara and Uncle Joe in New York. We did lots of fun things while we were there - like visiting Coney Island, Port Jefferson, the Musuem of Natural History, and Jones Beach. But most enjoyable of all was spending time with our family that we miss a lot (especially Jordan the weiner dog!).