Second to Last Weekend in New York

And jam packed it was! My cousin's girlfriend Jess gave Preston a Remy the Rat doll so that prompted me to DVR Ratatouille. Preston and I snuggled up on the couch on Friday night and watched a movie (O.K. I confess-I totally stole the movie night idea from Danielle and figured if Peyton can sit through a movie then so can Preston)! He made it about an hour and a half. The movie was really cute, but seriously cartoon movies should not be two hours. Attention span people! I am very glad our generation of Disney/Pixar has cut back on the whole violence in cartoons such as shooting a parent, having a scorned lion uncle kill his brother, scary looking witches, etc. Very wholesome that little Remy and his critter friends were. Preston also can say ratatouille pretty well now too. That is more French than I remember considering Mel and I remember "Bon"and "Il fait chaud." (Which means, "the guy is hot." Hey that was a useful phrase when you were 16 and most people chose to take Spanish over French! And to continue this rambling-since Mel and I pretty much retained no French from taking it for six years, once her Dad told us we could only speak on the phone in French while she was at her upstate home. That conversation was pretty short. We might have thrown in a "oui" for good measure).

Saturday we had a play date with Rossana and Andrew. I met Rossana when she was pregnant and they suspected Andrew had achon. Here are pictures from Saturday.

Notice how Thomas has creeped into every facet of our lives. (Look for a future post on my thoughts regarding Thomas and the island of Sodor). Don't they look soooo happy to be in their strollers? Meanwhile we were being such horrible mothers taking them out for lunch. I have that mutant achon kid that hates the stroller and would walk everywhere. Really. I shake my head in disbelief when there is a discussion on POLP about achon kids not liking to walk because I would do anything to not wrestle Preston into a stroller!

On Saturday night we had a great dinner at Aunt Pat and Uncle Dennis' and Preston had a lot of quality time (ahem...unauthorized ice cream at the playground) with his cousin Caitlin and her boyfriend Will. He also got to spend time with Nana.

On Sunday Steve took us out to breakfast at the Pancake Cottage. The waitresses are so bummed Preston will be moving and becoming a Cracker Barrel kid now. Hopefully we can do one more pancake excursion before we take off.

***Note****Although there are a ridiculous amount of pancakes on Preston's plate, I did stop him at four silver dollars (this meal encompassed breakfast and lunch) but had I not, he may have eaten them all. The kid loves his pancakes.

Then we burned off the calories by washing my car and my sister's. Preston helped Uncle Steve with the hose and washing the wheels.

In the spirit of the Olympics, Preston found a rather large rock in my parents' garden which he proceeded to chuck all over the driveway (far away from cars and small animals mind you). Here is the future shot put champion of the 2024 Olympics.