Squishy

The cat is out of the bag again; out family is expanding by two feet on February 12, 2014! It is now facebook official and has been announced to the world that we are pregnant. We told family and close friend before letting the Internet world know by sending a postcard with a picture and a math problem



Several people knew I was pregnant before we told them. They must have good pregoradar :). We are calling the baby Squishy (from Monsters University and Finding Nemo. No animals to stock up on this time). My official due date is February 16, but because this one will for sure be a scheduled repeat c-section, we are going ahead and picking the 12th. We didn't want a valentines baby and Michael already has off school for Lincoln's birthday, so we figured, why not!

Raegan is really excited and hoping for a girl because as she puts it, she already has a brother. Joshua has no clue and probably won't for a while. We have been working on him being gentle and nice and practicing holding and rocking babies. Sometimes he is so sweet and then in the next instant, he's back to being a rough and tough boy.

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Day 2

Here we are at the end of day two. Lots of walking, plenty of sun and touring.

We started the day with a ferry ride to see Lady Liberty. Lines were not too terrible once we figured out where we were going; there are so many people going in so many different direction, if you choose to try to follow the wrong ones, you never know where they will bring you! We were able to secure a rail position to get great pictures. It amazing how many people were on that boat with us taking the exact same picture! We figure if you wanted to rob a boat of tourist, you could probably easily get 10k in camera/electronic paraphernalia.






After the statue, we were suppose to visit the 9/11 memorial, but missed out call time and I forgot the papers, so we just had lunch and headed back to our room to change for Newsies, take two! When we arrived at the Nederlander, we were surprised to see so many people lined up waiting to go in. The line literally wrapped around the block. I guess I must've been early to other shows I've seen in NYC, because I've never experienced that. We waited until the very end to go in and sat a minute before it started. The show was amazing; we had awesome front row balcony seats. Almost all the cast is making their broadway debut and they did a fantastic job. The dancing/choreography is dynamic. After the show, I was able to get quite a few of the actors autographs. No idea who most of them were when they were signing, but it's all part of the experience.






A quick dinner was followed by a little shopping in Times Square for the kiddos at the Disney store. Nothing says NYC like a Princess Sofia doll and Woody :)

Tomorrow brings another attempt at the 9/11, a walk among Wall Street, the Daily Show, and Empire State Building!

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Location:W 81st St,New York,United States

Day one

We finally made it! Our trip to NYC started out rough with over an hour and a half wait for super shuttle (who will be hearing an earful from us when we get home) at LaGuardia, but once we made it to our hotel, we figured things would get better. We were able to check in, which was a bonus. However, our room has two single beds (that we were told we should be able to change tomorrow). It is clean, tiny, but had a nice view of the American Museum of Natural History.

We ate Shake Shack burgers sitting on a park bench in a drizzle. After we attempted to use the subway to head to Times Square only to find the station right outside our door is closed! Another change of plans. Because we were supposed to see Newsies at 3, we headed back to the hotel to change and then took a detour to get to Times Square. Funny story- turns out we bought tickets for Sunday afternoon not Saturday. Guess we don't get to see the Mets play; oh well next time.

After all our missteps, we had a great afternoon wandering the natural history museum and the museum of modern art. We ended our long crazy day at the Top of the Rock, which is the top of the Rockefeller Center. The views were amazing even if the wait for it was 30 minutes.

Good night for now. Pictures to come soon!
View from our room



Castle in Central Park


Thomas Crowne painting


Degas ballerina


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Location:W 81st St,New York,United States

New York, New York

Michael and I are off to fabulous NYC for three nights without the kiddos. (A special thanks to the Podgor house as they take care of said kiddos) We are super excited to have this chance to visit one of my favorite cities. We plan on seeing and doing as much as we can while there. We will post pictures and write as we go along!


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