The Dinosaur Place

Today the boys and I took a road trip upstate to a dinosaur playground park.  It's called The Dinosaur Place.  We had a blast!  A friend had seen it on Facebook and she suggested that we take all of our boys (mine; 5 and 3, hers: 4 and almost 2).  We called up another friend who has a little boy, and we ended up with 3 moms and 5 boys all between 1 and 5 years old.  It was the perfect place to spend a morning on a gorgeous sunny day in Connecticut.  First we went on a trail walk around a small lake where there were numerous statues of dinosaurs that were true to size and realistic.  One of them actually moved and sprayed water at you (like the one in Jurassic Park!).  After our hike we ended up at a huge playground and then moved on to the splash pad before having a picnic lunch and heading home.  It was well worth the $20 admission charge for such a fun day.

Ben picked out a T-Rex motorcycle from the gift shop and Tommy chose a toy allosaurus.  They both fell asleep with their toys tonight.  The sign of a good day and happy boys!

Allosaurus!

Checking the lake for dinos

Mommy and Ben selfie

Tommy and the dino

Cool spikes!

Four out of the five boys "feeding" the dinosaur

Tommy sitting on the dino's eggs to keep them warm

Ben standing on the sleeping dino's back

Too fast to pose for pictures

Playground

Happy boy

"We're the SAME!"

Just a dinosaur fan riding his scooter.  Nothing to see here.

Boys of Summer

Sometimes summer means having dessert BEFORE dinner!  ❤️

It's Official - Summer is Finally Here!

The Sun is out and so is school. Summer is here!  That means lots of playing outside, picnics, and riding bikes. And hopefully learning to swim as well. Our new neighborhood has a pool, so that means lots of swimming for us!

They like to wear fun hats and watch cars from the front steps

Snack time at the school playground

Watering the plants

Cheesin' at the water table

Being silly in their new closet

Water table fun

Spiderman sprinkler + Superman undies = a perfect summer day for a 5-year-old boy

Happy 3rd Birthday, Tommy!

Happy birthday to the craziest, most loving boy I know. Can't believe that you're already three years old!  We love you, Goose!! :)

Two Peas in a Pod

Having Tommy only two weeks after Ben turned two years old was a huge challenge.  Thank God that now when I look back I can't really feel those feelings anymore.  I just remember it all as a blur of "OMG, how are we ever going to survive this?  What have we done?!"  As time went on it got easier, of course.  As a teacher, of course for me it's all about the summers.  The summer of newborn and 2 was a blur.  The next summer when they were 1 and 3 was better.  Last year when they turned 2 and 4 was busy but actually kind of fun.  I have to say that this summer, as they turn 3 and 5 next month, I am really looking forward to it.  They can enjoy so much more now than they could before.  I can stretch out Tommy's day so that if we *really* wanted to do something in the afternoon we could think about skipping the nap.  I'm also hopeful that he will be out of diapers by the time school starts in the fall.  (We'll see about that...)  The good news is that through all of the chaos in the last five years, we have begun to raise some good boys.  They are best buddies and would rather play with each other than anyone else at this point.  I'll take it.  : )

Cuties

What a character!

Both my kids love costumes and imaginative play. Ben loves to pretend his is a superhero or a movie character. Tommy just sort of rocks different costumes and then goes about his day normally.  As himself. Here are a few examples...