And We're Done--Back to Reality

Another fun few days with the boys.  And "vacation" is over.  This time I am more ready to go back to work than I was over the summer and Christmas breaks.  The boys are better in some ways now that they are older, but they are also fussier and harder to deal with in other ways.  I'm exhausted and out of energy and money!  At the same time, I hate to go back to work and leave them.  I've seen so much growth in the past 2 weeks.  The speech has exploded and their personalities have really come out, particularly Adrian's.  That kids is FUNNY.  I mean really funny.  He has the ability to tease you and make you laugh with his faces, his mimicking, and just his way of being.  People always always think Sebastian is the funny one because he's more outgoing at first.  But once Adrian warms up, he's actually more personable than Sebastian I think!  

Friday, we did another mall running session at SSP.  The boys were tired when we were done!  That's always a good thing!

My mom came over to visit in the afternoon.  Beyond that, I don't remember what we did.

Saturday morning, we had Luke's 4th birthday party at Imagination Island.  The boys had a blast running around playing.  Once again they gravitated towards the cars, but they branched out a bit more than they did at Jungle Jake's!

 Adrian actually liked the bouncy house (that's a first).  This picture makes me feel dizzy!

 After playtime, we had pizza and cake.  The boys were happy to drink juice (since I never give it to them), eat their favorite food (pizza), and indulge in chocolate cake.  Last year we took these picture at Luke's party.  Their hair was so long and disgusting!  Oops!

And here are almost identical photos taken a year later...they look so much older now!  And while they did get chocolate on themselves, the mess was NO WHERE near as bad this year!!  I couldn't get them both to look at the camera at the same time, though.

I think Adrian would have licked the plate if we'd let him.  That boys loves his cake.  And in typical fashion, Adrian ate with a spoon.  Sebastian shoved the cake in his mouth with his hands.

Here's the whole fandamily.  I look AWFUL.  And why is Carlos's hair all messed up?!  Mimi, did you and Auntie Pat have anything to do with that?!?!?!??!!

Today we didn't do much because of the torrential rain.  We mostly hung around and watched Cars and played trucks.  Here are the boys and Carlos facetiming the grandparents and cousins in Mexico.  Adrian was showing them his string cheese and Sebastian just kept on playing trucks.

And that's all folks.  Here was my original list of things to do with them over March Break with the things we actually did crossed off.  I'd say we did great!  I never expected to actually do all of them, and I will say, I didn't think we'd even do this much.  It feels good to say that we made the most of our time, despite the bad weather.

1. Children's Museum in Easton

2. Aquarium in Boston

3. Visit Papa at work

4. Playgrounds in Easton (Went to both Frothingham Park and Keach)

5. Pump and Jump or Jungle Jake's in Pembroke (Did JJ's)

6.  Lunch date with Mama (We had 2 family breakfasts out.  And I had lunch dates at home with the boys every day.  So I didn't feel the need to spend money to take them out to lunch.)

7.  Animals at Blue Hills (too cold, snowy, or wet pretty much every day of vacation)

8.  Visit Harvard Square and drop by old office (Didn't want to drive  back up to the area after going to the Aquarium and Framingham)

9.  Story time at library (Boys were sick first week and weather bad second.  Didn't feel like taking them out!)

10.  Pinterest art projects (Too lazy...)

11.  Mall running (Various times and places!)


Now I start counting the days until summer vacation!

More Vacation Fun

Monday I took the boys to Carlos's office in Framingham to see him and his colleagues.  They had fun running around the conference room Carlos reserved and flirting with all the ladies.  They especially loved "Mouse" a.k.a. Mary Luz.  Carlos's boss also brought her twins by (5 year-old girls) and the four of them played for a few minutes before we had to leave...because the boys were exhausted.

Here they are asleep in the car on the way home. I took the long way (through Boston) home to give them time to sleep.

Tuesday morning I took the boys to Jungle Jake's in Pembroke.  I mostly just wanted to see what the place was like so I'd have a point of comparison with Imagination Island and Kidsports (in Stoughton, which I have yet to go to).  It was clean and had different stuff than Imagination Island.  I'd say this is better for older kids, but they have a great toddler area, too.  I paid $20 for the two of them to basically play for an hour and a half with the cozy coupes!  That was really all they were interested in!  And they just got in and out of them over and over and over again.  They didn't even move around in the cars.  At least they had fun!

In the afternoon we went to Frothingham Park, but it was frigid.  We stayed only about 15 minutes.

Wednesday we dodged a hell of a snow storm, but it was windy windy windy outside all day.  That kept us inside except for a short drive.  The boys played play-doh and then cars and trucks pretty much all morning.

This next lousy photos is really just to show Adrian's "family."  He had Papa, Mama, Adi, Sebastian, a bunny, a snake (?), and a star.

Today we went to the Easton Children's Museum.  It's a great place, and so close!  I think we may have to consider getting a membership.  We could send Natalie with them once a month or so...and they have story hour and other fun events every week as well.  Something to think about...

 The boys like dancing on the stage.  There is a camera and a TV set up so they can see themselves.  Very cute set up.

This afternoon we played outside for a bit.  But again, it was pretty cold.  After a while we came in and had snacks and watched "McQueen."  The boys never want to take off their "Nana hats."  You may have noticed, Adrian wore his the entire time we were at the Children's Museum today.  He wouldn't take it off!

 One more day of vacation with the just the boys.  Then the weekend.  How time flies.  Love them so much.