Happy Saint Patrick's Day!

At daycare today most of the kids were wearing green, and their arts and crafts project was making green hats (which Avery wore all the way home, all the way during our post-daycare stroll outside, and upstairs into our apartment, but as soon as I grabbed the camera, Avery tore it off his head!). When I went to pick him up this afternoon, Avery was literally running laps around the living room with two of his friends there, Armani and Cameron, and Belen said that it's been hard with the weather so cold because the kids want to go outside to run around! She said since tomorrow is supposed to be warm (in the 60's!), they'll take the kids for a "safari walk" in the backyard to look for animals. Cute! She also observed that Avery loves eating vegetables: broccoli, spinach, peppers, carrots . . . he loves them all! The other night, we had a nice dinner at home that I made (and am very proud of -- it actually turned out great): lemon-rosemary baked chicken, herbed goat cheese-mashed potatoes, and sliced steamed carrots. The carrots, potatoes, and goat cheese were all from the farmer's market. Avery only ate the carrots. Then he stole the rest of the carrots off of my plate and ate those as well! We are very happy that he loves his fruits and vegetables so much and hope that his healthy eating preferences will last!

Since we have a toddler, we opted for a family-friendly St. Paddy's day celebration: a walk in the park to look at ducks. No green beer for us this year, although Avery did find an empty bottle at home from the night before (we were doing our taxes and needed a drink!). No judgement please, it's empty! And SophisticatedBrew, no judgement about our crappy Beck's beer please! It's pretty bad, but it's only 68 calories a bottle!




We walked along the trail following the Bronx River Parkway. It's beautiful, with wooden bridges crossing the river, waterfalls, and lots of people walking dogs and jogging. There are LOTS of geese and ducks, and they are bold: they walk right up to you! We were tempted to feed them bread, but you're not supposed to do that anymore, so we just looked at them. Avery LOVED seeing the ducks!





Finally, some cutie-patootie pictures of Avery wearing his new (for him) Bart Simpson pjs that Carolyn (Mom) bought at (what else) a consignment sale. Mama has Homer Simpson pjs, so now we just need to get Mom some and we can match!