Jane fell asleep during lunch today

She was so tired. I don't blame her. I was in the kitchen and Hannah starts saying her name, "jane... Jane... JANE... JAAAAANE!"

I walked in and found Jane asleep.

Gourmet Homemade Ravioli

Since Minna is gone this weekend I decided to have a gourmet dinner. Joe came over with his pasta machine.

First you roll out the dough.


Then you add the ravioli filling (goat cheese with ricotta, basil, spinach, parmesean, garlic)


It was so easy, even Jane helped.


This is how the final product turned out.


The sauce was delicious made with chicken stock and pesto but there is no photo. Joe made the excellent dough and a great fennel salad, and Boston lettuce salad.

The girls were already done eating by the time the ravioli was ready, but Jane downed four more raviolis.

The swing was the best playground toy ever invented

I'll tell you why there is no better way to play with your kids than using a swing.


Jane is actually pretty good at using a non-kiddie swing.


They don't run away from you.

It's really easy to make them laugh.

You can make a game out of it.



I would swing them and they would try to eat the Teddy Graham from my fingers on the up swing. After the Teddy Grahams were gone Hannah lost her flip-flop so I was trying to put her flip-flop back on while she was swinging. This caused an outpouring of laughter on all accounts. I was about to take a picture of this until Jane fell out of the swing.


Then we reversed roles and I was swinging and trying to get the grahams from Hannah. Jane was recovering in the stroller.

This morning was the perfect day at the beach

The temperature was perfect, not hot, not cold.
The wind wasn't blasting sand in our eyes. It was just enough wind to keep the kite up.






This afternoon we took the bike and trailer for an errand and ended up at the park.

Hovering a thousand feet above the park were about 20 billion news helicopters with cameras pointed at the Queens County Courthouse where the Sean Bell verdict was announced. They were like mosquitoes.

Minna gets a break from the kids this weekend

I have the girls this weekend. Starting tonight.



Bedtime was really easy. Hannah feel asleep on the couch just after 8pm.


Jane was not tired, I heard her playing with toys in the dark and then put her in bed with Hannah, and that seemed to work. I didn't hear her again.

When Hannah woke up crying I couldn't find Jane. She had fallen asleep by behind door.

The fun part of Boston

Boston was awesome, except for the battle against my sinuses.


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We were hanging out with the ultra fun Truscotts.


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We did the Freedom Trail







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We played Wii.

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At 1am when Jane started to scream, I sat up with the Wii still on my mind, I was totally confused and referring to Jane and said, "I think we just need to change the settings".

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I climbed Bunker Hill Monument.




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We saw David and Debbie's fabulous new home two blocks from Bunker Monument, and ate all their delicious cookies.

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We went to the park on Sunday night even though I was feeling horrible, but it was probably the most fun part of the trip.




We entertained our wives and children by jumping over the fence. It was ridiculous.

Notice the excellent form by Tadd.






Gus wanted to be in the photo too so he stood in the background.






We changed Jane's settings and put her in "swing mode".

I'm sick of being sick

I've been sick for probably three weeks now. It'll be my sinuses then my throat, then my sinuses again. Then I'll feel good and think it's all done. But not today. I feel horrible.

I'm having fun in Boston, but it's been a battle. Me being sick vs me having fun.

But I'm not just sick. Sleep was minimal last night since we're sleeping in the same room with the girls. Jane had a whopper of night last night and cried for a solid hour from about 1am-2am. I'm very tired.

At church today I felt like lying down on the floor of the wheelchair accessible bathroom to sleep. But, I was distracted by the Lost & Found closet which is in that bathroom. That, and the floor was tile and didn't look comfortable.

I was sneezing and blowing my nose all day.