The Aquarium!

Today Ariana and I decided we wanted to go to the Aquarium and see all of the animals. What a fun day we had! Here are some pictures from our day!

We loved this huge turtle and kept following it around the tank

And then we had to see what Ariana would look like as a turtle... I think she'd definitely be a cute one!

Hey is that Dori from "Finding Nemo"?

We saw a cool actopus climbing across the glass of his aquarium.

Ariana got to pet crabs, star fish, and many other kinds of sea creatures. They even showed her some of the egg sacks that some of those animals have since she's so interested in eggs (see earlier post)

We even got to see a 3D movie because it caught her attention that it was about penguins (talked about in earlier post) She loved it!

Haha, look at the fish she caught! There is an area of the Aquarium where it has animals that are in the water locally and it has places where the kids can "fish" with magnets, well I LOVED this cute picture spot, showing off her catches!

Isn't she cute?

Here we are petting sting rays!

Eggs!

Ariana is currently OBSESSED with eggs! She saw on the tv show "Go Diego Go" an episode about penguins and how they take care of their eggs and how they hatch. Since then she's been crazy about them! She walks around with colored easter eggs that she starts to shake and says they're hatching! Then she needs you to put them back together so that she can do it all over again! Plus she can tell you about how the eggs are in the mommy's tummy and then they come out of her bum... it's so cute to hear her talk about it!

Well today we went to the library to see if there was anything else we could learn about eggs and penguins, well let me tell you there is! I had a very happy girl when we had 4 different egg books sitting in front of us and a penguin book!

New Nanny Job

I just started a new nanny position in New York. It's fun but it's scary at the same time! I loved my old job and I realized as I was interviewing for new jobs that I had it good. I had an employer that I had worked for long enough that she trusted me whole heartedly, I had kids who loved me and for the most part listened to me, I had friends who lived by me and I had easy access to. So a lot of the interviewing process was realizing that I had to gain someone's trust again, realizing that I had to learn how to live with a whole new set of people again, realizing that I had to get new kids to like me before they would even listen to me, realizing that I didn't have built in friends if I moved so far away. Kind of stresses you out if you really think about it!

Well after several interviews and several frustrated talks with Roz about the pros and cons about each one I was getting frustrated with my nanny agencies that I was with because they just weren't giving me the families I wanted to interview with. After weeks of that I realized that one of my friends in my ward was leaving her nanny position and the family she works for was interviewing nannies. She told me all about the family and how much she loved it and I was immediately interested in the position. I met with the mom on Monday night, met their daughter Wednesday afternoon, accepted the job on Wednesday night, moved in over the weekend, and started the job on Monday. Timewise it worked out perfectly for all of us and I really think I'm going to like this position a lot.

I'm going to be taking care of a 2 year old (she turns 3 next month). She is very cute and VERY smart! It will be really fun to get to know her and learn how to nanny just one child instead of the three I'm used to! Wish me luck!

Maritime Aquarium

This week Caroline is away at camp so I figured I'd take the other kiddos to some fun places so they don't feel like they're missing out on anything! So today we went to the Maritime Aquarium here in Connecticut, the kids absolutely LOVED it! This is what they looked like most of the time!

We got to see them feed the Seals

Got to pet the Sting Rays (This was the favorite of all the things to do)

Looking at the huge Sea Turtles

And then pretending to be one :)

The Jellyfish were so AWESOME!

We had sooooo much fun!

Montauk

This weekend I drove out to Montauk, New York, which is on the very very tip of Long Island and right by the Hamptons. The reason I went out there was to babysit this adorable little boy:

Now he doesn't usually have a mohawk, just when I'm around and playing with his hair!

He loves my ipod and was trying to figure out how to use it :)

Here's the beautiful lighthouse at the end of the Long Island

See that's where I was!

I tried to pack Luke and take him home but his mommy said I couldn't!

Touch Pod

Ok so Connor LOVES my I-pod touch! Seriously! He always wants to touch it and always pretends like he's using one. And I love what he calls it, a TOUCH POD. Well when we went to Colorado Connor found a rock on his hike that he calls his touch pod, he carries it around pushing pretend buttons on it and doing whatever I'm doing if I happen to be on mine, it's very cute! Well today I got a thing for my I-pod so that I can put it on my arm while I excercise and it had this little cardboard I-pod touch in it, Connor was seriously in heaven when I gave it to him. He'll seriously sit quietly forever just tapping that thing! Sooooo funny!

Hibachi

So I suggested to Roz that it would be fun to take the kids to Hibachi for dinner because I thought they would love it! I had gone like a month before with my friend and watched some other children and saw how much they enjoyed it. Well boy was I wrong! Christina was terrified! Everytime the chef put anything on fire she freaked out! Once she even ended up huddling behind her moms chair!

So I thought maybe if I held her and scooted back it would be better...wrong!

Connor on the other hand LOVED it and watched as the Chef did it at two other tables before we left.

Haircuts!

Today the girls got their hair cut. Christina's was long enough to donate, but Caroline did it last year so here's wasn't long enough. Here are the before and after pictures!

Before:

After:

Before:

After:

Then Connor after watching me take the before and after pictures decided he needed a picture to:

and then he knew what to do since he had been watching, so he turned around! I laughed so hard then of course took the picture!

Glee Live!

So today Roz and I went here...

and saw this...

It was totally sold out and for good reason it was AMAZING!

Here are some pictures I took, some turned out better than others! It was soooo fun!

Mercedes and Santana fighting over Puck in this song

Smashed the window of your car

Lady Gaga's Bad Romance

Jump

Jesse must live in NYC or something because they had him come out and sing this one song with Rachael

Sue's Intro

Here's how the Glee performance started:

ps I stole this from youtube, skip to :40 for the good stuff

More from Sue

In the middle of the Glee performance this came on the screen...

Becca's Blog

Here's what Becca wrote about her trip here on her blog!

This is where she talks about the plane stuff
This is about the rest of the trip
Here she talks about our playdate with Luke
Our Trip to Yale
Our Adventures in NYC
And here's a bit about Connor Bonnor