A Beautiful Day

The weekend was beautiful in New York. We went to birthday parties and a carnival!! Fun!Fun!fun!

There are no words..

to express the sadness that I have felt this week. My eyes fill up with tears every time I think of those 32 people who were lost at Virginia Tech that day. There is also another part of me who feels very bad for the family of that mentally ill boy. As a parent it is so hard to believe that our children are not always safe at school. As a teacher, I want children to come and tell us when they are upset or going through turmoil. We need to step in when we see children bullying others or hurting each others feelings. I will never understand why we need to have guns in the first place. There is just too much sadness that sometimes I don't think I can handle it.

Goodnight Moon

This is one of Zoe's favorites and part of our nightly ritual. Of course she is now in bed and loves to keep shouting out "mama, mama". This can go on for and hour and a half. How is she not tired? It is late and I would love for someone to be tucking me in at 7 pm. Please ignore her glistening cheeks, that would be the aquaphor.

It just clicked

You know when all of a sudden it just clicks ( with the kids). This vacation it happened. All of a sudden Zoe has seemed to become extremely attached. We thought she was before but now it is with all of us. She wants to be wherever Jordyn is now as well. The girls share a room and now Zoe doesn't even want to go to sleep at night if she isn't in there. Even when we move, we decided the girls will continue to share a room. I have taken the girls to a lot of different places this vacation and they truly enjoyed being together a lot.

This morning Jordyn had a request for my waffles and then we went to the zoo. Zoe was terrified when we saw the gorillas, I think she didn't understand they couldn't touch us. She was extremely upset by the big silver back that was only about a foot away.

On another note I watched a film from Netflix last night. It was called, For the Children. It was a Chinese movie and I highly recommend it. It is about a woman who loses her husband and child and teaches in the desert in China. During this time a teacher from Beijing comes and it is about their friendship.

Well, tomorrow I go back to work and the girls go back to school and daycare. I know Zoe will not be happy.

Fun filled vacation!!

We have had a very nice week and a few days off. We had two wonderful Passover sedars one with family and one with friends. Great food and lots of fun. I have tried very hard to keep the girls occupied. We have visited the aquarium in Norwalk, Conn. went to the Long Island Children's Museum, playdates and then this weekend we went to an Easter egg Hunt and the Museum of Natural History. Let me say Jordyn has had a great time at everything and poor Zoe for the most part has to stay in her stroller. Zoe loves to be very active and is quite the little dare devil. When we were at the aquarium they had a tank to touch the sting rays, Jordyn was trying to touch them and Zoe wants to dive in and swim with them.

Zoe has some wonderful new tricks- she holds the milk in her mouth and then lets it dribble out. I love this trick especially since we have carpeting. She also likes to dive from the couch to the ottoman ( which she broke last week- it had wheels and now it has none). We did get her ears pierced this weekend.