When Daddy is away, Mama and the boys will play!

While John was Scrabbling in upstate New York, the boys and I had a wonderful weekend with lots of adventures.

On Friday, I had the opportunity to meet Max’s teachers at preschool and his hip-hop dance teacher. It was pretty cool to meet some of the people that are having such a wonderful influence and impact on his life lately. He has a mini-recital at his last hip-hop class on November 5th so we’ll hopefully get some video to share with you. In the meantime, ask Max to see his moves the next time you see him.

Saturday was a blur of activity with a quick visit to the weekend playgroup we belong to and then a great lunch and visit to Saunders Farm with our friends Terry, Georgina, and Terry’s daughter Madeleine (dad Gavin was in Lake George with John). We started this tradition last year and it was so lovely to do it again. I think the highlight of the visit was getting the front seat on the very fast tractor ride out to the pumpkin patch and having dirt clods fly up and hit us in the face. The boys loved it! We didn’t even bother getting off at the pumpkin patch; we just rode the tractor again so we could get the front seat.







What a difference a year makes – last year, Leo slept through almost the entire visit in a sling and this time, we could barely keep up with him as he explored every nook and cranny of the place. You should have seen his face on the tractor ride!

On Sunday, our dear friends Jen and James and their twin daughters Rose and Lily hosted us for a morning of “Mess Up Time”. Mess Up Time is a childhood memory of Jen’s that she wanted to recreate for our kids. We dug the seeds out of tiny pumpkins then painted with chocolate pudding and played with orange and green Jell-O. The kids got totally covered and had an absolute blast. I got in on the act and put pudding and Jell-O in my hair and on my face too which caused the kids to have many fits of giggles.







After all that, we spent Sunday afternoon at a birthday party at Starr Gymnastics – Max is beginning to be a regular at that place! We capped off the weekend with a quiet dinner at Nana’s with lots of reading and playing. Definitely an exciting weekend full of adventures.