January & February 2016

We started off January saying goodbye to Ra and Papa as they went to spend 3 months in Florida and finishing up our visit with Grammie and Pop-pop before they drove back to Arizona. Sebastien started guitar lessons, which he wanted for his 6th birthday, and learned Twinkle Twinkle Little Star well enough to play it for the second performance fest! Archer started swimming lessons with Emory and a Storytellers class at school after Lunch Bunch, which helped with nap timing once Blake switched to one nap in mid-January. Sebastien attended his first LP Read-a-thon and loved it. We went to see the Dinosaurs! exhibit at the World Trade Center on a very empty Friday night. We had just enough snow to go sledding at the monument (and then it all melted – the best kind!) And we all continued to spend lots of time at the hockey rink on Saturday mornings. Sebastien celebrated his 6th birthday with a movie party at the Capitol Theatre in Arlington (on his actual birthday!) He and all his kindergarten friends (plus Finley and Max) ate pizza, watched The Book of Life with popcorn and juice, then had an ice cream sundae party to finish. They all had a blast! (And Archer and I were stuck at home with a stomach virus. Big thumbs down.)

Sebastien’s kindergarten class celebrated the 100th day of school in February and each had to bring in a bag of 100 anythings. Sebastien chose popsicle sticks and numbered each one from 1 to 100. We spent February vacation out in Arizona visiting Grammie and Pop-pop and had a great time, as always. We picked vegetables and rode rides at a farm, swam in the pool and played baseball in the street, visited some Anasazi ruins (which Sebastien is learning about in school), went horseback riding (Archer too!), visited Great Grandma Mary, went to the rodeo and went mini-golfing and race car driving. When we got back to Boston, the boys took two ski lessons – and loved them! Blake loved the Karen K and the Jitterbugs concert and is still talking about the bubbles and dancing a month later.

Memorable quotes:
“I can’t stand tall! I’m just little!” -Archer, when asked to stand up tall to get dressed
“I think the food is all going to be Saw-bee Arabian.” -Sebastien, on going to lunch at Salman’s
“I love your potty words in your brain, Sebastien.” -Archer
“Do you think I’m gonna grow up?” (lots of concern) “Are you sure?” -Archer
“Blakey, mom is not a jungle Jack!” -Archer, when Blake was climbing on me
“Dogs don’t talk very good. Dogs only say woof.” -Archer
And Blake always asks for “a tiss and a hug” and “a high five and a fist bump” – both things always together.


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