Daycare Photos: Water Play

Here are a few photos of Veronica at water play at daycare.She loves
the water table at daycare so much that we got her one at home, too.

Veronica Likes to Talk

She is talking SO MUCH now. Says complete sentences.
At day care she was calling one of the other toddlers and she wasn't
getting his attention, so she walked right up to him and said, "Harry,
I talk to you."
Other sentences she says a lot:
"No like that."
"I bite my tongue."
"I did it."
"I opened it."
"I jumped."
"Mama, sit here."
"No, Mama. No sit here. Daddy sit here."

Not only is she quite a mimic now, but she also copies things that we
DO. For example, a playful swat from me to Daddy is interpreted as an
actual hit by Veronica. Gotta watch ourselves!

Pulitzer Prize-winning Filipino-American reporter comes out as an undocumented citizen:

Powerful article on Jose Antonio Vargas:
http://nyti.ms/iOKCTD

His story is so inspiring, yet heartbreaking.

Our Morning Visitors

Who knew Winchester was such a wild kingdom kinda place?

- Adrian

How cute are these feet? In these shoes? The combined cuteness is killing me.

Walk in the Fells

Veronica decided she wanted to walk this time. You never know.

Peek-A-Boo!

Veronica the Artist

Here is a photo of Veronica painting on an easel outside.

Pizzaria Regina

So excited about the crown.

Daycare Photos: Lobsters!

A few photos from daycare. Veronica is in the white hat. I am really so lucky that, not only is the daycare right downstairs at my company, but that the teachers take photos and email them to us regularly.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: tsctoddlerone
Date: Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 6:14 PM

Toddler One families,
Today on our buggy ride we saw that the Farmer's Market was set up. We
went to see what they had & there was a Live Lobster & Fish stand. The
woman was so nice to show the children a lobster & let them touch an
old lobster claw.
Adrienne & Magdalena

Winchester Town Day 2011

Our town has an annual Winchester Town Day the first Saturday of June. Along with the En Ka Fair at the end of May, spring is very busy here in Winchester. For Town Day the center of the town is filled with booths of food and goods from the businesses in and around Winchester. And the Town Common has a petting zoo and a pony ride, as well as a Kids Olympics. The kids from one of the local dance companies even did several flash mob dances at different locations, and there is a stage for bands and dance companies to perform on between the library and the pond. There is an annual Rubber Ducky Race run by the Little League, and Town Day is wrapped up with fireworks in the evening. Click this link if you want to know more about Town Day. Here is a photo:

Town Day kicked off on Friday night with a local band playing fun music for the kiddies in front of the fire station. Veronica LOVED IT and loved dancing to the music. She insisted on wearing her Hello Kitty backpack and was so cute wearing it while she danced. Here is a video I took of her dancing:

One of the booths had a bubble machine and she stood there for so long, mesmerized by the bubbles:

There were also a few colorful mats out on a grassy spot so kids could try out their tumbling. The local gymnastics team were showing their talents. (Fun fact: Winchester native Alicia Sacramone was the captain of the silver medal winning USA Team at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.) Veronica was so enamored of the older kids turning cartwheels that she was determined to copy them. I tried to show her how to do one, but I don't think her gross motor skills are quite there yet. She would get ready to cartwheel, but had no idea how to make it happen, so she would just kind of stand in cartwheel-ready position, with one arm and one leg up on one side, waiting for the cartwheel to happen to her:

It didn't quite happen, but I am going to teach her one of these days.

In the afternoon was the Lucky Ducky Race. During Town Day the Little League booth sold rubber duckies. Later that day, all the duckies were dropped from a box over the pond and whichever ducky made it the waterfalls first won the grand prize. I captured the actual ducky drop:

There were so many activities that we didn't make it to all of them before it was nap time. Though Veronica was probably a bit young for the pony ride and Kids Olympics. I'm sure next year she is going to have even more fun. For the rest of the Town Day photos, click here.

Daycare Photos: Water Play!

Veronica LOVES playing with water.

Adrian at the Red Sox game on 03Jun2011

Adrian scored a set of free tickets to the Red Sox game last Friday.
The seats were very good, as you can see from the photo. He got in
some good guy-time with his friends. Go Sox!

I Wear My Sunglasses At Nap

Veronica usually falls asleep with a book at daycare during nap time.
One day I visited and the book was wedged between her face and her
pillow. But last Thursday she wanted to sleep with her sunglasses.
Here are a couple of photos.