Last weekend we went out to the Acton Discovery Museums and the Aquarium again. As you might imagine, it was a weekend of cooking. Or maybe you might not have guessed that.
First up was the Acton Discovery Museums. We went to the kitchen first.
Here's a burger for you Mama.
She liked it better than the last meal I made for her at home.
Tomato sandwich (tomato-bread-tomato) and turtle
Aki had some lunch too
Later we went up to the boat room and Aki had fun crawling through the submarine tunnel.
Where am I going? Where's lunch?
The next day we went out to the New England Aquarium.
Monday was the President's Day. To celebrate, we went to Chinatown.
On the way there, we saw this sign. I hope I can make her proud
Then we went to see the Statue of Liberty Lin Ze Xu
It was chilly out so we went to warm up with some hot dim sum.
Aki is ready for some eating or drumming. Probably drumming.
After dim sum, we went to look at the stores.
I think mommy would look nice with one of these! Daddy?
Here is the big Chinese Buddhist temple, right next to the Fung Wah bus company. Daddy says it is very convenient. Buy $15 ticket to Boston, go next door to temple, pray bus does not have accident, get on bus.
Mommy praying inside the temple
You can have a fun morning with the stuff you can buy on the street in Chinatown:
First, put on socks and underwear
Then make an mushroom omelette
Maybe watch a movie or a dozen
Then make some dumplings and hot pot for lunch!
Chinatown is right next to Little Italy. Not much was open in Little Italy. There weren't many Little Italians either.
What does breaka you face mean, daddy?
Back in Chinatown, we went to ice cream. Mommy was excited because they had durian flavor.
Panda?!! Who would make ice cream out of panda?!!
Daddy said durian is like ice cream already so what's the point of having ice cream ice cream? I don't know, I liked it. Daddy refused to try it. Now I know he can't force me to try anything I don't want.
Right after this we had to hustle back to get our stuff and get on the train for Boston. We had a great trip to New York again. I hope we can go back soon!
On Sunday we woke up in our much nicer hotel than last time. It was nicer because mommy and daddy got a one-room room this time instead of the two room setup. This way me and Aki got to keep an eye on them while they slept.
Hugging Aki.
Aki slept in her crib, but this was really my bed! It transforms into a sofa. I kept asking daddy to "make it separate" or to pull it out so I could get back in!
After breakfast we caught the train to Brooklyn! Doesn't that sound like a cool place? It's about 200 miles away, as far as I can tell. We had to take the green train then the yellow one then the gray one.
Here's where the green train stopped running and we had to take the yellow one.
It turned out that we were in the Brooklyn Museum of Art, which was fine by me since there was lots of cool stuff to see.
Here's Aki in the kids' gallery
Aki contemplating the meaning of this sign
Aki and daddy went upstairs while mommy and I were doing some drawing. Here's one of the things they saw:
A doormat made up of many many little people. It's by a Korean artist who does that kind of thing.
After the museum we walked over to see a friend of daddy's from college. He and his wife have a dog, who was very friendly. I wanted to pet him, but I was kind of scared, so I asked daddy to pet the dog for me.
On the way to the friend's house, we saw this scene from Knuffle Bunny Too
Last weekend we went back to New York City again since we had so much fun the last time.
Saturday was Valentine's Day and we took the train down. We didn't get there until the afternoon so there wasn't too much time to do things. We all went to the Sony Wonder Technology Lab where we got to play with lots of computers.
Here's mommy and me editing a video
I also got to play a Madagascar video game for 5 minutes. Or did I get to watch daddy play for 5 minutes? I forget which.
The statues were made by some guy who likes Hello Kitty.
Later on the walk to dinner we came on this scene. This is a store with lots of fancy cars inside. This guy was begging the people inside to let him buy a t-shirt. It was not quite their closing time, but the doors were already locked. I guess the inside people didn't want to wait until 5 to get to Valentine's Day.
I hope he got a good Valentine's Day present somewhere else
Finally we got to dinner.
Mommy says this is one of her favorite restaurants from back in LA. I don't remember LA too well.
Me and daddy in our booth
Aki showing off her teeth
I took a portrait of Aki. She moves really fast.
Mommy and daddy enjoyed their dinners. I enjoyed my asparagus.
What I had for dinner
Oh, I almost forgot. I also had these beautiful white globes of sweetness that melted on my tongue... Daddy said they were called marshmallows.
Making the globes
Eating them in a cracker. I think I was supposed to put chocolate in them, but I ate the chocolate while the marshmallows were cooking.
Forget the crackers, just give me the good stuff!
We had a great Valentine's Day in New York, and the next day was even more fun! Stay tuned!
Mama was inspired by this hat to make her own spiral beanie. It's clearly not the same, since she used a different type of yarn (worsted vs. bulky), but it'll be a nice "spring" hat. She's going to publish the pattern for free download on Ravelry, so everyone can make it if they want to. It's her first time writing a pattern, so if you find an error, let her know!
Owen and I had a blast in the Big Apple, although we spent all of Sunday in a new city called Brooklyn visiting museums and meeting daddy's old friend. More on the trip later. Too sleepy and tired now. Time for bed. Night, night!
Happy Valentine's Day everyone! In honor of my first Valentine's Day, mommy and daddy are treating us to another trip to NYC. When we get back, Owen and I will tell you all about it.
In the meantime, here are some pictures of us from the Valentine's Day Party we went to last weekend.
Owen putting together his mailbox to collect his valentines.
Daddy helped me decorate my treasure box for my valentines.
I loved blueberries...
... and egg shakers.
Owen was busy all week making Valentines for his friends at school.
Big brother busy signing his name on the valentines.
