Blogs from Buffalo, New York, United States, North America - page 4

What a great winter it has been, but man am I looking forward to Spring! Happily, we have been able to enjoy our back room this winter:) Good thing too, I don't know where we would be roaming around these days without the extra room. You two are a fairly active little pair. For a while we thought maybe Charlie wouldn't be as adventurous given your sweet demeanor, but that is not the case. I picked you guys up from the babysitting 'playroom' the other day and Joann said 'He's really a climber!'. Great. We had some nice time playing in the snow and a couple of shoveling days that turned into impromptu snowball fights. Because when you get some good packing snow, what else are you supposed to do with it? Happily Daddy and Mommy ... read more

Well my sweet girl, you have begun your apprenticeship as my little chef in training. Yesterday you helped me make muffins. We did a great job stirring together all of the dry ingredients, however when it came to the wet ingredients you were slightly less helpful. Let's just say that some of your kitchen practices aren't going to get you on a cooking show, or perhaps more correctly, not in any functioning commercial kitchens or restaurants. First your task was to put the prunes that I was slicing up in the mixture. And to be honest you did that, with most of them, the rest you ate. Then we started a new bowl for the wet ingredients. First we put in the applesauce. I gave you a spoon to stir with as we added more things ... read more

That zooming sound you hear is either Lena and Charlie flying by in the wagon or summer moving so fast my head is spinning. We had a three week period of crazy travel beginning with Long Beach or "The Hut". Lena, you were there last year but did not enjoy it NEARLY as much as this year. We had a hard time dragging you in off of the sand most nights. Thankfully we have a 'new' sandbox courtesy of Uncle John and Aunt Patty and the cousins Black. So some of the wonderful beach has come home with us. We took off the next weekend for the Adirondacks for the 4th of July. One of your tricks during the Hut was to completely forgo napping. Another was the newly discovered trick of climbing out of every ... read more

What an exciting summer so far, and it is only going to get busier! We started it still in the excitement of a Sabres playoff run only to have that end too early for our taste around the time of your half birthday Lena. We celebrated your birthday with pizza and cupcakes, YUM! The beautiful and often warmer than expected spring had us back outside and strolling everywhere. We had a reunion with the playground, the park, the zoo. Life is good. Charlie you have been using the excersaucer and mastering all of its bells and whistles like a champ. You started eating rice cereal and lately have been falling asleep eating that instead of nursing. Strange, but honestly, any port in a storm. About a week after starting baby rice cereal, I was in the ... read more

Well, unfortunately, I am pretty sure that you currently think they grow in plastic eggs Lena. Sorry about that. Maybe we'll pick some in Nana's garden this summer and correct that notion. For Easter you found eggs hidden in the back room and they were each filled with a strawberry. Later when you found the container that the eggs live in the rest of the year they had to each be rechecked for strawberries:) It has been a while since I have written you, but we have been busy as ever. Between trying to get the work on the house that we are doing ourselves finished and all of the other adventures that make life worth it, we've just been busy. We got to see all the Widzinski boys when they came into town for the ... read more