school photos

school photos from back in the fall that i finally got around to scanning and posting.

dabingos

quentin and caroline are obsessed with plastic flamingos (or dabingos, as Q calls them) as a result of watching "gnomeo and juliet" constantly. we drive by a house and the way to school everyday that has some out front and they begged me to get some. so now we have our own.

bootmobile!

it's l.l. bean's 100th anniversary and they are celebrating by driving a giant bootmobile all over the country. it stopped by my office since we are the ones who do their credit card. the kids thought it was awesome. heck. i thought it was awesome.

literary genius

i don't think the teacher puts these on the wall to be funny. but they are pure comedic gold.

there you go, webster

time to update the ol' dictionary

tack this recipe to pinterest

delish.

monster jam: baltimore

after a not-so-quick dinner at the hard rock cafe (pickle wanted to eat at "the guitar") we went to the monster jam show less than a mile from the aquarium. surprisingly, we saw several trucks we've never seen before. also amazingly, this was only caroline's 2nd monster jam. as we were heading in, quentin was excited about meeting the drivers (which we weren't doing this time.) next time. seriously, we're going to the big show in philly again and he can meet them there.

i think pickle enjoyed it as much as Q!

dolphin show

sorry for the wobbly video - it is hard enough trying to track multiple dolphins across a huge pool, but doing so steadily is near impossible with a three-year-old in your lap, tugging on your arm and people walking in front of you.

shark!

yesterday we had a double-day of fun in baltimore. we did the same thing last year, but you would know it because i never posted last year's pics to the blog. (sadly "post aquarium / monster jam photos to blog" has been on my actual to-do list for a year. i'm going to leave it there. maybe someday i'll get around to it.) -

we started off at the national aquarium. it was sea creature week at school last week and the kids wouldn't shut up about seeing the sharks and the dolphin show, so it worked out well. these fish pics were all taken by Q. sadly, his came out better than any of mine.

the beauty of aquarium membership = free dolphin show. we were excited because last time we went to the aquarium, the dolphin show was on hiatus because they had babies.

watching the show

hanging out

it's hard to tell with the picture being so small, but i managed to catch two up them jumping at the same time.

more of Q's fish

quentin was infatuated with the three-legged sea turtle they have in the main tank. at first he was terrified of the rays (but not the sharks) but by the end we couldn't tear him away.

hu ke lau

after the monster truck show we all went to the hu ke lau for dinner and a polynesian show eerily similar to the one we saw at disney (no fire or swords, though.) when the waitress asked Q what he would like to drink, he told her, "something that lights up!" and we are now the proud owners of 5 light-up faux ice cubes.

monster jam: worcester

last weekend we went up to massachusetts to fetch our dogs who had been vacationing at grandma and grandpa's house since christmas. monster jam was also in town. my dad, my brother, and jeremy took Q to worcester to see the trucks, while grandma, aunt kristin, and i took pickle to shop "for pretty dresses" at her request.

daddy forgot to bring some toy trucks so Q had to use his headphones instead getting his shirt autographed by monster magic

stone crusher

adding wrecking crew to the shirt

avenger signed his headphones

frampa got in on the action

caroline's favorite truck was there

30th anniversary grave digger

wrecking crew

wolverine