So it has been a while since I've updated this blog, things have been more than hectic since we moved, work has me so busy and the little time I've had I've been spending with my babies... I can't believe it's been almost 3 months now, summer has been over and the leaves are beginning to turn. The one thing that I have been excited about here is seeing the changing colors of the leaves, I would always find that so amazing, when I was a child I used to collect them and I was just fascinated with the colors, and I loved raking leaves with my sisters in our backyard... except for the one time I thought it would be funny if I scraped my sister's back with the rake... didn't go over so well.. We live on an acre and it has many trees in front and in the back, so Gael and Sofia Lee will have a wonderful time jumping in piles of leaves... I am very excited about that. I'm getting used to living here, I still get homesick but I do enjoy watching my children run around in the backyard and play on the swing set Danny put together. We've been to NYC many times, driving and taking the train, it's extremely easy to do, so in many ways I have the best of both worlds, peaceful living and a major metropolitan city near by.
Gael is enrolled in a preschool readiness program in Manhattan, it's pretty awesome I think. It's a drop off program that lasts about 2 hours, it's great, they teach him how to write, count, make his own snacks, and then we get to spend the afternoon taking a walk in Central Park and visiting museums, it's been fun so far and he's doing great! Sofia Lee begins her One's program in Westport, I'm excited to see how she'll adjust because she's so attached. She's also become so attached to Gael, she does what he does, tries to speak when he does, when he cries, she goes to him and pats him on the head to soothe him. And most of her previous classes had him there. I'm interested to see how she'll adjust without him. I have yet to adjust, I haven't met any other mom's, partly due to my work sched but it would be nice to have the kids play with children their own age. I've always wanted to have a Halloween party for kids, if I were in Chicago, it'd be so easy to do with all of Gael and Sofia Lee's friends and cousins. That's one of the reasons why we're flying back for Halloween, I want to see them, we miss them all so much.
Until then I've packed my calender with autumn events both here in Fairfield county and in NYC. This weekend a big Family Picnic and next Sun, we're headed to Brooklyn for a street festival!
