New Year!

1/15/2012

The new year has started great. We had a great time in Chicago and managed two airport adventures without any major tantrums!!!! Looks like Matilda's monkey roller-bag was a great idea. She loved towing it through the airport.

Our first full week in Philadelphia was an eventful one. Here's what Mat's schedule looks like this semester:

Mondays:
10:00-10:50: Nest Music @ Nest. (nestphilly.com)
11:00-12:30: Two Curious Birds @ Nest
5:15-6:00: Lil' Tumblers All-Comers @ Philly Kids Gym (Phillykidsgym.com)

Tuesdays:
10:00-10:45: StoryTime @ Charles Santore Branch of the Philadelphia Free Library
11:00-12:00: Art Start @ Philly Art Center
4:30-6:00: Playdate with Sarah Tacobman (Daughter of Wharton colleague)

Wednesdays:
10:30-11:15: The Music Class @ Old Pine Community Center
4:00-5:00: Barnes and Noble Story Hour

Thursdays:
No classes
This is a day I will use for various field-trips and play-dates. This past week, Thursday was very rainy so we went to the Please Touch Museum (pictures below). This coming week I am either taking Matilda to see a play of Charlotte's Web or going to the Philadelphia Zoo.

Fridays:
11:00-12:00: Junior Varsity All-Stars @ Nest (sports class)

As you can see, Matilda's schedule is full of soo many exciting things. She LOVES art and music. We constantly have music playing in the house for her. Her current obsession is a Sesame Street album focusing on Bert and Ernie.

VERY happy to be back at nest!

Betsey let Matilda pick out her own tights:)

Max loves to lay at Matilda's feet while she is at her table. I think it's the only real time that he's mellow!

"I'm taking a rest" at the Philly InMovement open gym. Matilda recieved a trampoline identical to this one for christmas.

Trying on the rainforest explorer hat at the Please Touch Museum!

First REAL snow! It melted off around 9am but it stuck around long enough for Matilda to see it! She was pretty excited. She kept yelling "It snowed! It snowed!"

Her expression here cracks me up. She is giving the dirtiest look at who knows what.

Enjoying our snack OUTSIDE on a JANUARY morning!!! Such a beautiful day!

Zoe looks terrified in this picture!!!

I can't say we are completely on the potty-training wagon, but we're getting close. This week Matilda and I made a Potty-training sticker chart. Of course we also made a miniature one for sparkly monkey. She's very excited about the possibility of earning stickers for her sticker chart especially since 3 stickers = one juice. As of friday she didn't have any stickers yet, but I'm hoping that as she continues to develop over the next few months, she'll become more and more biologically aware and earn lots of stickers.



Matilda selecting rockets for the rocket launcher at the Please Touch Museum!

While I'm making lunch, Matilda is allowed 3-5 minutes on my iPhone to do education apps or look at pictures. She's really big on drawing H's lately. Here's an example of a few of them! On Thursday she even drew an 'A' and a 'D' on her peice of paper!!

Mat trying on the sweater her grammy knitted for her!