cookie exchange

This year marked our 5th annual cookie exchange, complete with a mountain of homemade cookies baked by friends, an equally impressive mountain of winter coats on the bed, drinks and lots of little feet running around. You can see, though, that the real fun was in Ida's room.

thanksgiving

For the first time, we celebrated Thanksgiving in NY. Friends joined us at our place where we ate until we couldn't eat any more, drank a bit too much, and ended the night with a marathon game of charades. Ida was a great sport.

at home

Some fun indoor moments. Brrrr.....it's getting cold out there.

halloween

Mi Escuelita celebrates Halloween by working with the kids to make their own costumes during the weeks leading up to a fun day of trick-or-treating around Williamsburg. This year they all dressed up as bugs. Ida picked white. She told us that she was a butterfly.

dinosaurs

During a recent trip to the Natural History Museum, we quickly learned that the dinosaurs were a favorite. Ida's been talking about them ever since.

i'm cool

ida monster

apple picking - new paltz, ny

We've enjoyed a beautiful fall in New York. One weekend, we joined friends for a day of apple picking and pumpkins in New Paltz, NY. It was our fourth visit to Dressel Farms.

we begin...

...at two.