NYC for Mommy's Birthday

For my birthday, I wanted to go to New York City and eat good food and just walk around and inhale that city air. Cough cough. We went twice actually--once with uncle Skyler and grandma and then once with Stacey and grandma. With Skyler we went to the Toy R Us in Times Square and we all rode on the Farris wheel. Mary was pretty thrilled. We got to sit in the "lellow" Bob the Builder Lego truck. We also looked at lots of toys. Mary was frightened of the giant T-Rex from Jurassic Park--and she has talked of nothing since. So I told her that her daddy liked dinosaurs too and I went into the attic and I found her a little t-rex that I got Chris at the Museum of Natural History. She loves it--she goes around saying that daddy's dinosaur is "my sinosaur." It's so funny she's scared and yet fascinated.

We went to New York with grandma Kathy and Stacey the day after Halloween. Mary was crazy all day long! She is never having candy again! I don't know if it was all that sugar or what. She couldn't sit still to save her life! I had thought that it would be fun to take her to Alice's Tea Cup because a friend of mine said that they put fairy wings on the little girls and sprinkle them with fairy dust. Then you have tea and little sandwiches, or cakes, or whatever is your fancy. Well Mary didn't want to wear her fairy wings and she was just all over the place. They serve tea in these dainty little china teacups and it is all very cute. I was afraid that she was going to break something. So the food and the tea was delicious--but not the place for a destructive two year old.

I had wanted to go to the Met, but since it was a beautiful day and Mary was full speed ahead, I decided we should just walk through Central Park. Plus there are not many beautiful days ahead.

After we walked through Central Park we just continued walking down Fifth Avenue--where we made a very important stop: World of Disney! Mary loves 101 Dalmatians, so she was scared/thrilled/frightened to see the very large Cruella De Vil there. Well she loves the Cruella De Vil song--"if she doesn't scare you, no evil thing will..."

Then we continued to walk down until we passed by the Empire State building and decided it was time for dinner. All in all we all had walked fifty blocks--Mary too. And she was still going. We had dinner at this great Venzuelan arepas bar. It was delicious. Mary was luckily positioned between my mom and the window--so she couldn't go too crazy. She did however manage to conceal a place setting in the diaper bag, which I found a few days later. We all had a really fun day and thankfully Mary seemed more like herself the next day--only 75 miles an hour instead of 100.

Halloween

For Halloween, my little princess dressed up as the Princess Aurora aka Sleeping Beauty. She looked so pretty! She had these little princess shoes with heels that would light up as she walked. I was afraid she would fall and packed the crocs with us in case she couldn't walk in the heels. Mary was born to walk in heels and she has had lots of practice with my heels. She walked, she pranced, she frolicked and even ran in her heels and I don't think she once fell. She did however tire from the weight of her crown, and so mommy wore it--happily I will say.

We met up with Jasmine, Batman, and a few other of Mary's other buddies for trick or treating. Even though I told her what she was supposed to say--and even though she would repeat it back to me, not once did she ever say "trick-or-treat" at some one's house. A lot of the houses just left the basket of candy on the porch. This made Mary think she was entitled to at least two pieces of candy. The best house served the parents wine and beer, and offered an array of cheeses and even chips and salsa. The children were offered fruit on toothpicks and caprisons. This was definitely the favorite house among the parents. If a house looked frightening, Mary would say, "not that one" and keep on walking. After all her friends finished up we went back to our neighborhood and hit a few houses. Mary didn't want to stop. I think she could have gone door to door all night.