Christmas 2015

 We spent last week in New York to celebrate Christmas with our east coast family and friends. It was a great trip and most importantly, the cousins got yet another chance to bond and be crazy together! Believe it or not, these pictures of the cousins were taken on Christmas day at a local park... with no coats necessary. It was 72 degrees! I can't ever remember a Christmas on the east coast when it was that warm. It was perfect because after opening presents, the kids could run around like crazy outside... Jonathan was fascinated with Poppy, Elsie and Bennett and Poppy was the best babysitter! She was so good with Jonathan and even though it looks like he is trying to escape below, he would always smile at Poppy when she was with him.

Earlier in the week we went to the New York Botanical Gardens in the Bronx to see the train show. It was very cool! They had all these buildings made out of natural materials that were replicas of New York landmarks. And oh yeah, there were model trains too! The boys loved it!

One day we took the kids to the Norwalk Aquarium which was great. In addition to fish, they had animals such as meerkats and the kids got to "go in" to the habitat with them. If you look closely, there is a meerkat sitting on top of the bubble that the kids are in...

We also got the chance to go to Jersey to see the Duren-Lubanski family. It was a total Jersey experience, complete with traffic and pizza! It was so fun to see the girls and Jonathan was very happy to do "cheers" with Sheryl--this is how you can bond with an otherwise shy J. If you clank glasses with him, he will be your friend!