I’m excited to attend Ed and John’s Wedding next month. Finally, we’re invited to a same sex wedding! Hooray for Massachusetts (and congratulations Ed & John). It’s weird how a wedding like this feels more like a anniversary party - they’ve been together so long.
Nathan and I visited the the Glass pumpkins while Lisa was preparing for the tea party on Saturday morning. The pumpkins were amazing. What amazed me though was the spectacle of frenzied spending! Each of those pumpkins as from $70-$400 with most of them around $150, and they place was like Filenes basement on a sale day, hundreds of people running around piling pumpkins into the boxes and bags they’d brought with them, and standing in long lines to get tot the efficiently run outdoor cash registers. it was a little crazy.
I guess I’m a risk taker, because here’s a picture of me letting nathan play with $800 worth of glass pumpkins. We came home empty handed but impressed.
I recently subscribed to Senator Barack Obama’s podcast, and after listening to him as I walk home, I think I want this guy to president. He’s so much more believable and genuine and intelligent and understandable than the last couple of candidates the Democrats have fielded.
Nathan had his friends Emma and Jackson over for a tea party on Saturday. Lisa arranged an incredible meal for kids and parents alike.
And quite a bit more - it was incredible. Everybody had a great time. It was one of the first times I’ve heard nathan have two-way imaginary play with kids his own age. They spent a bit of time playing bus together.
Lisa decided to make homemade Marshmallows for Nathan’s toddler tea party. That’s so Lisa. She just let me taste the marshmallow fluff - pretty amazingly delicious.
Nathan has two Digger friends he has named Hockey and Stoughton. He names many things with those names, but these have really stuck. Hockey and Stoughton are friends and do a lot of work together. nearly every day this week Nathan has spent some time, usually in the early morning, playing hockey and Stoughton. Often their job is just to drive around looking at things. Often they are called on to fix major train derailments, or today to right a tipped over truck. Sometimes they just go park at a construction site. I often have to play Stoughton (the little yellow digger). It’s so fun watching Nathan use his imagination.
Removing the shingles from the front of our house revealed some nice looking wood from olden times. It’s going to be covered right back up with new cedar shingles though.
We exhausted ourselves walking from South Station to Copley Square over the Mass Ave bridge and back home to Cambridge. Here’s Nathan in Chinatown near the start of the hike. Not sure why the photo is so over exposed, but he had such a nice smile I decided to keep it.
Nathan puts one of the cannons the British left behing in 1776 to good use. The cannons are in the Cambridge Common, near one of Nathan’s favorite palygrounds.
We had a small birthday celebration with my parents and the Ruddy-Novelle horde. Nathan loved it, he is really excited about his gifts and loved running around with the kids as usual. Here he is blowing out candles. Adriana is trying to hold Gustavo back so Nathan will get his chance.
You can see a few more birthday photos on Flickr.
