Living Life and Loving It

Exploring our big backyard (aka Central Park).

Isabella loves to make things and she also loves to give her creations away.  (Our sweet neighbors are usually the recipients of her creativ...

The ladies from church put together a very fun Easter egg hunt today.   We loved it! one mom made amazing "cake pops"  so ...

I love Isabella at 4 years old!  I feel like she really loves these little traditions.  I haven't felt much of a need to form family tra...

Last week we worked on the book Ask Mr. Bear  from our Before Five in a Row (B4FIAR) curriculum.  It's about a little boy who tries to...

Simon has had a busy month.  He sprouted his first tooth almost two weeks ago (teething at 3.5 months = crazy).  His eczema also got pretty...

Harper, we love you!

Last week we received Isabella's acceptance letter in the mail.  Phew!  She finally got into PS 87.  She was #10 on the wait list for aw...

When she walked out of the apartment wearing this today I thought of the famous fashion blog The Sartorialist  and had to snap a photo. S...

Broadway & W 72nd St.  You never know what is lurking in the sewer!

Soaking up spring.

Last fall all of Isabella's friends began preschool.  We choose to not pay for private preschool and she did not get into any public pre...

I don't consider myself a seamstress (sewer? sewist?) by any means.  But I have learned to sew a bit these last few years.  My mom taugh...

I recently read how simple play activities help prepare kids for their future. For example, play-dough. While forming and shaping play-dough...