Weekend Scenes

Well, I missed a day yesterday—I’m about a month and a half into this thing—but I have a good excuse: we happened to have parked only a block away from that explosion in NYC on Saturday night. We weren’t by the car when it happened, thankfully, but getting home took a lot longer than expected. Hopefully everyone that was hurt makes a quick recovery.  

Other than that , the weekend itself was great. Saturday morning we went up to an apple orchard and got to celebrate one of our favorite little guy's turning 2 with a hayride and some time in the pumpkin patch. Max and Luca are only a few weeks apart in age and I love watching them grow up together. 

Also, even though it was 80 degrees out, being at the orchard--and eating some apple cider donuts--made me want all things fall. 

After that, we headed into the city to see one of my friend's from Italy, who was here on her honeymoon. We hadn't seen each other in probably about 10 years--and I hadn't met her husband until the other day--but we all just fell right back into it. 

We totally spent some time reminiscing about summers past--and many of the stupid things we did--and even though I know I say it (or at least think it) all the time, I just feel so grateful to have had them. 

Simona and Alessio wound up staying at our place on Saturday night, so we got some extra time to hang out--and then were able to get breakfast this morning before they headed back to their hotel and then back home. 

Not the best picture, but in case there was any doubt that Italians will always choose cake and pastries over eggs and bagels for breakfast, here's proof. 

I just love his face. I'm not feeling super hot, so I'm headed to bed, but here's to a good week ahead. 

Weekend Scenes

What is it about long weekends that never feel particularly long? I feel like we blinked and went from Friday night to Monday night and we suddenly found ourselves doing the usual day-before-work errands like food shopping and laundry. 

But, what was of the weekend was super fun. I didn't get as many pictures as I would have liked so these and some words will have to do. 

Luca had been at my parents house on Friday, so after work I picked him up and we stayed there for pizza. Afterwards, we met with Miriam and Joe for some gelato over at Pane & Gelato--it was super busy, actually, but so good. 

 

Saturday was the engagement party--which I already mentioned, along with my major backyard envy. That may have directly led to us actually hanging up the huge frames we bought. Sunday morning success. Luca has no fall clothes that fit him, so we also went to Baby Gap and Gymbroee, where they were having big sales (40% and 50% off most things), so we got Luca stocked for school. (Uh, even though it's going to be like 85 degrees here all week...) 

Later on on Sunday we went to my aunt and uncle's house for my cousin Danny's 25th birthday party. I'm the worst and didn't actually get a photo of the birthday boy--or the awesome pizza they were making on the grill.

What I did happen to get was a picture of is Luca with his cousins (there are also two other cutie boys not pictured here -- so many boys!), who played with him all day. My cousin gave us this workbench and Luca was super happy to "pway tools" basically the entire time.

My cousin gave us a ton more toys too, which gave me a good excuse to finally organize the playroom we finished a couple months back. Well, actually this half of the room is finished, I should say. The other half, which is basically about the same size, doesn't have much in it. We're thinking of making it more of an arts and crafts area, with a table and a big pegboard for art supplies etc. I'm thinking it'll also be a good spot for homework later on. So the above pic is what it looked like when I started out this morning, and below is what it looked like when we finished (uh, and when Luca was napping, obviously.)

The next couple weeks are super busy, which I think I'm slightly psyching myself out for, but it's all good busy so for that I'm grateful.