Sports Mecca's visited

Maple Leaf Gardens...check.
Lambeau Field...check.
Yankee Stadium....now, check.
(posted by daddy)

At the park

Hot July!

Randoms

Just posting random images from my phone.

(Some photos have captions, click the text balloon at the bottom left of the slideviewer)

Texting while driving

Beating the heat in Queens

When the pool's too crowded (and it was...the line was, like, almost to the Triboro Bridge), you take the wee ones to Target in College Point and let them run the aisles, perhaps park it in the toy section where time flies, products are acquired and your children forget you exist.

Below: We bought the Alphabet Apple.

Below: We did not buy the beanbag seats, but Hugo did make himself a nest.

Blazin' hot in Astoria

Holy crap!

Preschool anyone?

Mommy went yesterday for Hugo's preschool orientation. He'll be taking the bus to Manhattan. Mommy learned about what to bring for snack and lunch and had to sign a permission slip for park walks since Central Park is the school's playground (there is a rooftop playground too!).
It looks a bit corporate from the outside, but the inside, on the school's floor there are bold colors, oversized tricycles and some of the most amazing teachers you could meet. The Browns are feeling pretty blessed.

Apparently they don't make charts....

....for babies like Dash. A couple of days ago, Dash weighed in at the doctor's office (and got shots...boo!). He's 30 lbs. 13 oz. and 33 1/4 inches, which as Jennifer noted, "is literally off the charts" in terms of growth at his age. This came as no surprise to us though, all you have to do is pick him up and you realize he's pretty much the same weight as his 2.5 yr.-old brother, Hugo.

"They tell me I'm quite the specimen."

Dashiel at One!

Where we started...

and where we are now...

Happy Birthday Big Boy! It's been so great to see you grow this past year...and boy, did you grow!

Ice cream in the park yesterday

The boys love a good cone on a hot day.

Our Recent Family Trip to Cayuga Lake

So good to get away...

Swingers

The boys generally shy away from swings...but the other day it seems they caught the bug.

Green Lantern Pants

Hugo's shorts seem to glow green next to this poster.

Dash Walks, Jumps and Talks...

We haven't posted video in a while...So here's some walking...

We've gotten him to take more steps, but needless to say, he's close to a full-on sprint....or dash as the case may be. Below, a bit of jumping...

And now a bit of talking....Dash has picked up a new word: watch now as he points to "the dog" and says her name. And Hugo, he gives a big choco-smile at the end.

Drawing with Hugo

He is quite good with lines.

Linus with his blanket

...and daddy.

Chalk Art Boy

Hugo has been experimenting with linear chalk compositions via concrete and brick mediums.

It's sprinkler season!

From the park today.

Sent via Android

Laying a Cheerio smack down...

While Frida and Diego await the fallout.

Sent via Android

From this morning's playtime.

Above: was passing time watching the boys play in the living room and I thought I would try to get a portrait. Below: a somewhat cute story. Last night, I had the radio connected to our computer playing a random shuffle of files from our iTunes when an audio file came on from a couple months ago of mommy speaking to Dashiel while he was eating. Dash stopped playing with his toys, stood up on his tiptoes and started to pull himself up to the desk to see where mommy was. When the file stopped, he stood a second more, looked back at me, and sat back down to continue playing with his toys.