Teddy and Jackson

Today we babysat for Teddy's pal from daycare, Jackson. The boys got to eat dinner together and then play at the playground for a while before they both headed back to their respective homes for bedtime. Boy did they have a lot of fun; who knew playing with wood chips could be so fun!

Mother's Day

What a great Mother's Day. Teddy and Ray let me sleep in (until 8) and then woke me up with flowers and a card. After some prompting from Ray to say, "Happy Mother's Day, Mama!", Teddy instead said, "Happy Birthday to you Mama!" He knew it was some sort of special occassion... Then we went off to a yummy breakfast at Bon Savor, and to a picnic at the Arboretum's Lilac Sunday (see post below).

Since Teddy's older, this year we decided to make all the mother's and grandmother's gifts. We had Teddy handprint some flower pots and then planted jade plants in them. Teddy was very excited about the end product, although wasn't too sure about the process. When we loaded up his hand with paint he looked at his hand and said, "Yucky!" I think they came out great!

Lilac Sunday

Today is Mother's Day, which is also Lilac Sunday at the Arnold Arboretum. It's the only day of the year were you can (technically) picnic, the lilacs are in full bloom, and dancers decked out in belled costumes perform. We met up with our friends, Beth, Kevin and Avelina for a picnic and some playtime. Teddy and Avelina shared food, but had a harder time with the soccer ball and sunglasses. All and all, a fun morning.

Cast Off

Teddy went back to Children's today (hopefully for the last time) to have his cast cut off. First we went to the Plaster Room to have the cast cut open. They left the bottom side on and wrapped it in an ace bandage and sent us off to x-ray. His arm had healed beautifully, so they let us take the other half off and sent us on our way. Teddy, unphased by his adventure with fracutred bones, immediately wanted to go to the playground to play on the slide!

From Cast Off