Spring 2012

I haven't updated the blog is so long, there's a lot of material to cover.  Here's a look back at Spring 2012 at our house (based on the photos from my camera):

We visited the firehouse a block from our house with our playgroup friends.  The kids got to go in the fire truck and make siren sounds over the loud-speaker.

We hosted a St. Patrick's Day playgroup party at our house, for which I made these (way more time-consuming than I thought they'd be) rainbow cupcakes.  

We went into the city with our friend Varnali to the First Robotics competition.

Andrew and I went to a park during cherry-blossom time with our playgroup friends.

Andrew was so proud that he filled the whole perimeter of his little table with dominoes and vehicles.

We celebrated our half-birthdays (April 20, 23, and 26) with half of a cake.

We bought a bunch of glow sticks and we've held a couple of family glow-stick dance parties right before Andrew's bedtime. 

Our grad-school friend, Diya, visited from Atlanta and we took a little hike with her and Varnali around the reservoir that's a block from our house.  Yes, this is right in the middle of our densely populated neighborhood.  It's surrounded by a big stone wall, so you can't really see what it is from the outside.

Here we are, instagrammed at the reservoir.

I got a cheap plastic chip-and-dip in the Target dollar section, since I have a serious lack of serving platters.  Andrew thought it was a great tool for organizing his cars and trucks.

Andrew went to the dentist for the first time, and he was great!  He let the dentist look at his teeth and clean them with no trouble at all.  

Here he shows off his nice, clean teeth.

We met up with our friend, Diya, again on Memorial Day weekend when she and her parents were in town.  We all went to the Statue of Liberty

We got pretty close, but couldn't go inside because it's closed for renovations.

When we returned to New Jersey from taking the ferry to the Statue of Liberty, we saw the New Jersey September 11th Memorial.  It's two big parallel walls with the names of all the New Jersey residents who died in the attacks.  

When you look at the memorial head-on, the walls look like the twin towers, and at the right angle they stand directly in front of where the twin towers used to be in the New York skyline.