Autumn & Kalina

A couple of weeks ago Mom took Autumn to New York and New Jersey.  They had a trade show out there, but I had important things to do at home so I didn’t go.  (or maybe I didn’t get invited?!) Dad and I had a birthday party to go to, and a visit with Grandma, and hanging out time.

Mommy says flying is way better when Autumn sleeps instead of screaming.

The first day they walked around without any real plans.  The saw 5th avenue, Grand Central Station, and the edge of Central park.

Uncle Jeffrey needed to see the Apple Store in New York.  The babies went with their moms to FAO Schwarz store, but it closed and they had to leave.  The babies are on the wrong side of the window though!

At the hotel it was play time and then bath time-Autumn learned how to throw water OUT of the tub!

Mom, Autumn, Jeff, Caitlin, and Ryland said they did a lot of walking and I wouldn’t have liked to sit in the stroller that much.  Friday they had breakfast with Ken from Renaissance Albums, went to the top of the Empire State building, walked through the flower show at Macy’s, to B&H Photo store, through Hell’s Kitchen, then Times Square, and Rockefeller Center, cabbed to Washington Square, walked and had lunch with Jace, walked around the Soho shops, cabbed to the Chelsea market, walked Highline Park, and cabbed back to the hotel.  They left the room at 9:00am and got back at 6:30pm!

Before they left for the day Autumn got her hair done, and Ryland wanted his too, but his Mommy didn’t want that style.

Here’s some of the views from the Empire State Building.

This is at Washington Square

This is Highline Park.  It’s up above the ground!

What are we looking at Uncle Jeffrey?

Ryland, you have on my hat!  I’m gonna get it back!  See, it’s a girl hat.

These were some interesting architecture from Highline Park.

Autumn got to meet Mommy’s friend Jace and she even let him hold her a few times.  She doesn’t really like boys, so she cried when they get to close.

Play time back at the hotel!

On Saturday, before they left for New Jersey they walked and found a Japanese place that Ken had told them about.  Mom and Autumn had curry chicken katsu for breakfast.  Mom tried a mochi donut that she says was yummy.

And then over to Central Park to walk around a bit.

In New Jersey Mom and Caitlin found a Trader Joe’s and had to go in and buy some snacks.  Autumn found the peanut butter cups.

Jeff and Caitlin worked while Mom watched Autumn and Ryland.  One day she took them both swimming at the same time!  She says that it’s a good thing the 2 babies are lighter in the water.  They went to a really good Thai restaurant with Ken and his family (he was at the show too).  Autumn ate soooo much chicken and rice-Mom thought she’d never stop eating!  The next night they went to Japanese food.  The babies ate edamame, rice, tempura, and gyoza!  After they ate it was time to play with the placemats.

Yesterday we went to this big tall building and Mom and Dad wrote their name on LOTS of papers and said that now we have a new place to build a house.  Today we went over there to see it.  Mom went across the street and took some pictures.  This picture is kind of hard to see, but it shows how big the lot is.  (it’s not loading right now-need technical support)

These are the view tight now, but once the house is built we’ll be a little higher.

Here we are exploring the land.

Before we left Autumn insisted on putting on her own shoes.  She’s doing things like that a lot lately and it’s driving mom nuts.

Another new adventure!  Today we drove to Colorado Springs to check out a new zoo.  My teacher told Mommy that you could feed giraffes at this zoo.  Guess what-she was right, I got to feed really big giraffes!

Autumn, see me riding your horse.

You’re doing good Autumn!

Make it go up and down like this!  Come on Autumn, let’s go get dressed for the zoo.

I got to pick 3 animals to donate coins to help them.

Ok, here comes the giraffes!  At first I didn’t really like feeding them.  Mommy and Daddy had to help me.

But, I got better at doing it myself.

Autumn tried feeding the giraffe too, but she got scared and cried a little.

Daddy made her feel better though.

Say bye-bye to the giraffes Autumn.

These are called Meerkats-can you see them Autumn?

Now let’s go see the elephants.

Let’s eat out lunch and watch the elephants.

Guess he’s sleepy.

Do we look like the real thing?

Come in here Autumn.  You can see the sea otter doing flips in the water!

Hee, hee-Autumn thinks she’s going to bump her head-she’s not even big enough to reach the top.

Come in this tunnel with me!

See me waiting my turn to ride a pony.  I got to ride it in 4 circles!  This pony was named Sunny.  Autumn tried to pet her, but Autumn was afraid of her too!

My pony had to stop here and poop before we could walk some more.

Not only did I get to ride a real pony, I got to ride a fake one too!

Autumn really liked these ponies.  She kept telling Daddy not to hold her.  Until they started to move, then she didn’t like it so much, and Daddy had to hold her.

We saw hippos.  Boy are they big and sleepy!

I stopped to talk to the gorilla, but he didn’t talk to me.

He actually turned and walked away!

Even though my sister copies everything I do-I still love her!

I even shared my monkey juice cup with her.