Scenes from a weekend.

It hardly felt like the last weekend of January this past weekend, but hey, we'll take it, right? We spent a good amount of time outdoors since we haven't been able to lately. We went to breakfast at a diner in the East Village Saturday morning and then played in Tompkins Square Park at the playground and watched the dogs play in the dog run. Sunday we had breakfast with the Knott family in Long Island City and took some pictures at 5 Pointz, the amazing graffiti building. We also booked our trip to Barbados! Hooray!

Sh*t Liz Lemon says.

Ok, ok. I know that this is really getting quite played, but still. Liz Lemon? She's everyone's favorite so how can you make us stop now? Maybe after this we'll stop. Ok? So just watch you judgy judgers.

An office with a view.

And oh, what a view it is.

Last week I got to work downtown at a client's office for a few days. While I was there, I kept staring, with an open mouth, out the windows at their incredible views of the harbor and of Brooklyn. Obviously I love my borough, but seeing it from the 22nd floor of a downtown building on the water, is just a nice change up. Here's a couple images I snapped from up high.

It snowed in Brooklyn.

And we took Will sledding!

Since he was a baby last year for winter and the freak snowstorm that happened back in October was in the middle of our London > New York travel disaster, this was basically his first snow. So we celebrated by grabbing Clayton and Frances's sled and we hopped on over to the Dumbo sledding hill on Washington Street and made some memories! Or at least Mark and I did if Will doesn't remember. And in case he doesn't, here's a movie commemorating the event!

I don't want to live on the moon.

This is one of my very favorite parts of Sesame Street. I feel lucky when I pick an episode that features this duet between Aaron Neville and Ernie.

Well, I'd like to visit the moon
On a rocket ship high in the air
Yes, I'd like to visit the moon
But I don't think I'd like to live there
Though I'd like to look down at the Earth from above
I would miss all the places and people I love
So although I might like it for one afternoon
I don't want to live on the moon

I'd like to travel under the sea
I could meet all the fish everywhere
Yes, I'd travel under the sea
But I don't think I'd like to live there
I might stay for a day there if I had my wish
But there's not much to do when your friends are all fish
And an oyster and clam aren't real family
So I don't want to live in the sea

I'd like to visit the jungle, hear the lions roar
Go back in time and meet a dinosaur
There's so many strange places I'd like to be
But none of them permanently

So if I should visit the moon
Well, I'll dance on a moonbeam and then
I will make a wish on a star
And I'll wish I was home once again
Though I'd like to look down at the Earth from above
I would miss all the places and people I love
So although I may go I'll be coming home soon
'Cause I don't want to live on the moon
No, I don't want to live on the moon

This is real.

I mean, seriously. This is my life and the collective life of everyone that I know who lives in this God forsaken place. "Oh look, Mario Batali". "Cash only?" "Where is the TRAIN?!" "I don't really leave Brooklyn on the weekends". "Oh they're filming Law & Order". "I hate it here". "Aahh! Is that Pat Kiernan?"

A play room corner!

Will is the luckiest kid in Brooklyn, at least in my opinion, because of the size of his play space and the amount of toys that fill said space. Yes, it's a corner of our living room, and yes, he still shares his bedroom with our home office, but hey, it's valuable real estate. Don't make me price it out for you. Take a look at the corner of our house and please do come over and share a car, truck, train, musical instrument, or ball with him, won't you? After the jump you can see where some of this good stuff is from. The key is hand-me-downs, people!

Scenes from a (cold) weekend.

Man! It was cold this weekend! I know we've been lucky that it's mid-January and just now getting cold, but yuck! When you have a kid and live in an apartment, you need outside time in a serious way and we were seriously lacking these past several days! It was horrible trying to give him a nap yesterday and putting him to bed last night because he was exhausted but hadn't really burned off all his little boy energy for the day, so he screamed and jumped and sang and stalled and stalled. Ack! We'll have to try something else for the rest of the winter - jumping classes, dance classes, swimming lessons, a membership to one of the children's museums... something must be done!

Anyway, we did get to see our friends for breakfast and Will and Ace got to hold hands and freeze to death at the playground for 15 minutes. We spent a lot of time getting cozy and watching Sesame Street too.