I haven't blogged in a while due to the winter blues. You know the feeling of not wanting to do anything that you really don't have to. It was the flu then more snow, but it is starting to get warmer which is making me even more restless. I am ready to be out with the family in the sun! Right now we have lots of rain, but that's better than snow right now. I know that the sun will come out one day and I won't be stuck in the house with the kids. So, I've been doing a bit of spring cleaning and rearranging the furniture a little.
Once I get started, I just want to throw everything away! Especially all the kids' toys that Jimmy and I trip on daily! I have already put half of Kai's toys into little plastic shoe boxes and stored them in the closet, but he still has so many little pieces all over the house...legos. We got him smaller pieces now that he is bigger. We even got him a special roll away tub to store them in, but for some reason there are never any legos in the bin!
Kai will be three soon and I am trying to plan a small party for him with a couple of little friends. It should be fun. I'm looking forward to it. Planning for the kids is the easy part, but it's the inclusion of adults that is the stressor...so my solution is to have it out of the house! I'm thinking he's old enough to go to Build-A-Bear. Plus he seems to be into snuggling with lovies at night now..which is interesting to me because as a baby he never really cared to play with things like that. He wasn't a hands on baby, but he loved to be read and sung to.
Bella on the other hand, is what you imagine a baby to be: drooling and mouthing anything she can get her hands on. She has a little dolly, which we have named 'Flora' because she has flowers all over her dress. Flora goes everywhere with us! I am so in love with my little girl, I don't know how many times a day I tell her that she is so adorable and loved! I don't know when I'll have another little one again, so I am enjoying every minute of my baby.
Jimmy just had a birthday last week and we had a pretty fun day dining out at restaurants that we normally wouldn't get to go to because of the kids. For lunch we went to Mambo Grill, it's a Latin restaurant and we love the ribs there! For dessert we made early reservations at Blackbird (a really posh restaurant with yummy food) and had one plate of every dessert on the menu...mmmm..yummy! What a great experience there, even though it was only for the desserts, the staff was great and the kids behaved even better! We were going to go to the adjoining restaurant Avec, but we were so full we had to pass it up, but they have the tastiest chorizo stuffed dates, duck confit, and so much more...oh my mouth is watering just thinking about it. I give those restaurants five forks up!
(*Tip of the week* I believe you should be able to take the whole family anywhere, even fancy restaurants that normally wouldn't have small diners. You just have to give them a call, tell them you would really like to dine there with children in tow. Most places will accommodate especially if you are going in the moment they open for dinner service. Lunch time is even a better time to go, because the service is faster.)
The not so fun part is when we went to our car to go home and we discovered that it had been towed!!! That would explain why there were no other cars parked at those meters...I guess we are a little bit country still about the parking in the city.
We got our car back the same night, but poor Jimmy had to spend the rest of his birthday running around town to make it happen. Next time we'll take a cab!
Whew...so much to catch ya'll up on, but that is about it for now. I will be back on here more regularly now that the blues are fading.
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