6 yrs, Pre-K and knitting!

September! Indisputably the best month of the year - although this year we've had more of a humid hot month than usual - STILL! The weather is cooler, the farms are busting with the best produce  of the year in my opinion (can you say pumpkins!?!) and it marks the milestone of my wedding anniversary - 6 years now to be exact. We celebrated by going to see Once on broadway - based on the movie which I highly recommend (both movie and show) - excellent! Also happy birthday Grandma Lynn!!

Maya started Pre-k - her third and final year at her preschool in LIC, we are anxiously awaiting the completion of their new space which has faced some construction delays that will hopefully be sorted out in the next few weeks - not that the kids have noticed, they are having a blast in the same space they have known for the last two years - doing more with letters and numbers and the classroom science project of the moment - tadpoles! Actually totally amazing. They have also done classroom interviews of their peers - here's Maya's:


Lia: What’s your favorite thing to do?

Maya: I like to make a tea party. I invited Sophie and Henry. I like to cook my cookies.

Nicole: Do you like Barbies?

Maya: I like to play with Barbies and brush their hair

Henry: What’s your favorite ice cream?

Maya: Chocolate chip cookies

Evan: What do you like at school?

Maya: I like to bring my pony book and show it.

Emanuel: What’s your favorite Barbie?

Maya: She has a horse to ride. Just a girl who likes to ride horses

Eva: What’s your favorite kind of music?

Maya: Sleeping Beauty

Eva: What’s your favorite book?

Maya: My Mermaid book and my Sleeping Beauty Book

Avelene: What do you like to write?

Maya: I like to write and draw bunnies

Nicole Czajkowski: What’s your favorite fish?

Maya: Sweet fish when they taste like carrots and look like lobsters

Jessica: Where do you ride real horses?

Maya: In a stable. I have to take a car.

Cat: Who’s in your family?

Maya: My big daddy and my little sister Laila

..... and Mommy gets thrown under the bus and totally forgotten - AGAIN! And I can only assume that 'sweet fish' was swedish fish not sure about the lobster reference except that she thinks it's funny.

We also made it to the NY Renaissance Faire this month - always an interesting experience  - where we rode a camel, saw some shows, jousting (yes, really, horses and all, one guy actually fell off - oops). It's quite an event.



And finally - my fall project has been to re-launch my little knitting shop on Etsy - Urban Baby Knits. I am really enjoying it and it keeps me busy. You might recognize some of my models.

This weekend we are headed to Hershey Park in PA with Roshni and family who have relocated to Delaware and are therefore much closer. Maya is looking forward to seeing her friend Liam... we'll see how they both do with the rides, but we seem to have lucked out with the weather :)

Happy Birthday Maya!

4 years old! Maya and her classmates celebrated with her at Jane's Carousel in Brooklyn Bridge park with an Olivia themed event, lots of Uruguayan specialties and a piñata and lots of mini cupcakes.

She is very excited to be four, and asked me all summer when her birthday was, and if she was four yet and if she could now go to pre-k. Going to pre-k is a big deal apparently because it means she will be in her separate classroom and be the oldest group in her preschool.


On that note, pre-k thankfully starts tomorrow for a half day of school. I am ecstatic at getting back into a routine. Although our summer was lovely - most of it spent in East Hampton with time divided between YMCA camp, beach, pool, yoga and horse back riding! Maya started taking lessons and we went together to the barn once a week and both rode - it was nice to get back into it having not ridden regularly since college. And Maya loved the whole experience from getting the horses ready, to her lesson, to the sponge bath she treated her horse to afterwards. Merrylegs is the name of her white pony by the way and she talks about her frequently.

  We've spent the last several weeks taking advantage of all those fun city family amusements that we hadn't gotten to all summer - Natural History museum, Bronx zoo and I think there is a Renaissance faire trip in the future - any excuse to be outside in a medieval princess dress and eat a turkey leg. Some pics from her birthday party. Happy September everyone!