Sunday, March 17, 2013

Irish for a day!

Tim nor I are Irish but growing up in NY in a Catholic family I always celebrated St. Patrick's Day. With my sister living in Boston probably one of the largest Irish populations we had more than one excuse to wear green yesterday.

Jen had bought Raya a cute I "shamrock" Boston onesie back in August and it was baggy then, not so much now. It's bittersweet watching her grow. I was able to stuff her into the onesie for a couple of hours to stop by Tim's baseball game. She also sent Raya an adorable shamrock headband, we are so lucky Raya leaves them on her head! ;)

After lunch it was time to put her shamrock party dress on to stop by a bridal show at The Hotel Del (which we got a flat tire on the way to- luck wasn't really on our side) then headed to Grandma Altbaum's for little St. Patrick's day festivities. Due to the flat tire we were a little late but she had a scavenger hunt for the kids with a little bag that had a leprechaun hat, beads, rubber duckies-very cute! Raya played and chewed on her duckies all night while also showing off her walking skills and stopping for just a few minutes to have a little dinner.

What a fun day of festivities, who said it wasn't fun being green?!



Saturday, March 16, 2013

Peas for Sweet Pea!

This child LOVES her peas!! I know she didn't get it from me but hopefully I will take some lessons from her. At least twice a day she goes through 2-3 handfuls of peas! She pops them in her mouth like candy.

It's quite funny but I also know how fortunate I am to have a baby that likes her veggies and I also know that this phase may not last very long so she can have all the peas she wants!!

To change it up a bit I blended some up in the strangest food concoction to date, with beets, purple potato and banana, she ate it!!!!

Go sweet pea, you are going to grow up to be such a strong girl :)