Spring Portrait

Happy Easter!

March Madness

The month has flown by.  We were given the gift of an unnecessary snow day, so I have some extra time to catch the blog up! 

First up was Daddy's birthday and he started the day off with this special sentiment from his daughter.  She knows his dream is always to go dancing with me!

 A couple days later, Bea made her First Penance.  It was actually a very nice ceremony and though she was filled with angst for weeks about "what to say," she achieved clarity a couple of days before and was confident and prepared.  Embarrassingly I'll admit I'd have loved to have heard her confession!

She and Samm went to the New England Aquarium last Monday and had a great time visiting Boston's sea creatures!

The YMCA opened here in town last month and we've had a blast swimming often and I've found some long-buried willpower and have been getting up at 5 a.m. to get on the treadmill.  It's  a beautiful facility and we are so lucky to have it just a 4-minute drive  away!

John and JJ came over for a corned beef & cabbage St. Paddy's dinner (and, on an unrelated note, Bea was home with a fever the next day):

Our orchids have finally started to bloom.  A sure sign that winter's near its end!

and yesterday was the SJS Easter Bunny Breakfast.  Bea was less shy this year because somehow the bunny seemed....somehow..... familiar to her.....

(one thing crossed off my bucket list I guess.....)

Smile at 7 3/4

The teeth that Bea had when we first met her, 4 top and 4 bottom, have all departed as she transitions from childhood to adolescence:

What a change from May 2015 to now:

February Fun

I've been procrastinating getting back to the blog, for no good reasons, but here's a review of the past few weeks.  We had a blast at Great Wolf Den with the Chazanoffs, and here's one and only pic to show for it!  Warm water truly feels so much better when snow is in your view out the window!

Beatrice was so happy with her class Tet party, which included Pin the Tail on the Monkey,

rolling and eating a goi cuon,

creating a lunar calendar,

and a dragon parade through many classrooms:

The next morning, a fresh spring roll and a bowl of cheerios combined for a perfect Vietnamese-American breakfast!

The New Year party at Marianapolis was postponed a week due to snow, but we took in the rescheduled event:

The Tet face paint led to Valentine's face paint, a request for the Fire & Ice festival downtown, where it was way too cold (teens below zero!) for pictures!

and my hubby made me an amazing Valentine's dinner:

Bea had a week off for vacation and she had a lot of fun and kept busy, including this play-in-the-snow-before-it-melts playdate with Samm, right before she got a fever for three days:

and this pic off the school website shows me a little girl whose face isn't looking so little anymore!