I have my own "paint" story!

I call this my "paint" story because not long ago Ethan's teacher told me a story of when her boys were little and she came home one night to a spray of fluorescent yellow paint all over her living room. She was telling me this to let me know that she really does understand what it is to be a mother of boys! Her kindness and understanding has meant so much to me and now I think she'll laugh when I tell her my own "paint" story:

This afternoon Elliott came out of his room during rest time to ask if it was time to get up (this is an everyday occurrence even though he can read the clock in his room - ya know, just in case we've changed our minds about the time). We said no and then he said "It smells like powder up here!" Thought that was strange for one second but then I smelled it too. I told him to open Ethan's door and see what he was doing. After a few quiet words were exchanged upstairs Elliott came running back out saying "Ethan has powder all over his room!!!!" And so it was. When I first went up I saw him standing in the doorway covered in powder....I had to laugh a little, but I couldn't see his room. I went back down to get my camera (of course) and when I got back up there his room was in full view. What a MESS!!! I couldn't believe he could make such a big mess. There was a fog of powder (still is 7 hours later) - seriously it was foggy in here. And not only had he had fun with the powder but thought the travel sized baby shampoo, lotion and baby bath would be fun to dump on the carpet also.

So if anyone knows how to get shampoo and lotion out of carpet let us know!

Boston

Amber and I had a great trip to Boston! We went to celebrate our friend Shoba's baby shower and just had the best time hanging out with everyone and enjoying the city sights. I think the most interesting part of the trip was walking through the Boston Public Garden and seeing someone walk across the pond! I had to do a double take and realized it was so frozen over that people were just taking a shortcut across the frozen pond. So we had to try it for ourselves - what fun! We got to see almost all the major sights at least briefly on a guided tour and we also took the train to Harvard University, enjoyed pastries (too many pastries) from Mike's Pastries in the North End, shopped on Charles Street and Newbury Street, ate lunch at Cheers, etc. Let's just say we burned a lot of calories walking!

And the shower was so nice! They gave it at the Cafe Fleuri in the Langham Hotel, and it was a chocolate buffet....yummmmmm! The hostesses were so sweet and generous...they did such a great job and made everything so fun and wonderful and memorable for everyone! I'm very grateful to have been included!

Of course a trip would not be complete without funny moments.....such as Amber's lack of navigational skills. My tendency to leave her uselessly yelling my name at the train station when her ticket wouldn't work and she couldn't get through the gate and was holding up the line behind her(it would take a few minutes before I would realize that she wasn't there or anywhere near me!). Our great idea to lug all of our luggage from the airport onto a city bus and then into a train station, up an elevator, down an elevator, onto a train, off of a train, up a flight of stairs, down a flight of stairs, onto another train, off the other train, up some stairs, right onto a busy downtown city sidewalk wondering where in the world we were - really wasn't such a good idea. But we laughed!