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Our Weekend in Sleepy Hollow

We took a day trip last weekend just north of the city to visit Washington Irving's home, Sleepy Hollow, and the Great Jack O'lantern Blaze. It was a fantastic day! Lyndon planned the whole outing. He is kind of obsessed with the Blaze, but we all kind of are. Cosette has been talking about the "tunnel of love" from the Blaze this entire year. She was so excited to go to the "tunnel of love". Although since it was such an action packed day both kids were pretty tired by the time we reached it. I have been saying all month that we are big fans of Halloween in our house (Me and Coco). Cosette has been watching Curious George's Boo Fest just about every day which was perfect for the outing because it helped her understand The Legend of Sleepy Hollow , which was what the day revolved around. The headless horseman (or Hessian) is known as no noggin in our house. Our first stop was to Washington Irving's home where we took a tour of the house, saw

The Haunted Pumpkin Garden

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We had a Halloween filled weekend. Me and the kids kicked it off by heading to the NYC Botanical Gardens with some friends to explore the Haunted Pumpkin Garden.  We spent our time in the children's garden,which was splendidly decorated for the season. Oh, I love Halloween! We have been really into Halloween this year because it's my favorite and Cosette understands the holidays now and is all excited. Although, she enjoyed running around with her friends more than she did the pumpkins this time. Friends trump everything in her book.  .  These pumpkin creations welcomed you into the garden.  We spent a lot of time at the rocks. We could not get them away, even from the rocks they were not supposed to climb.  Pumpkin head. This giant spider reminded me of the one in the Lord of the Rings.    The pumpkin Henry is standing next to weighed 1004 lbs! It was one of many enormous pumpkins that were spread out through the gardens. Here it is the proof

Can You Tell me how to get to Sesame Street?

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The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts is hosting a fun Sesame Street exhibit that is free! I grew up watching the show and love the characters. It was just as much fun for me to see it as it was the kids. It is a great exhibit that has a ton of information about the history of the show for grown ups to read, but a lot of different activities for the kids to engage and enjoy. You could get through it in about half an hour if you don't sit and read everything which you probably won't be able to if you have kids. It was the perfect activity for that rainy day.  Cookie Monster was there to greet us at the front desk when we arrived. Grover pointing the way Sesame Street! Cool to see the iconic Big Bird. He is a big bird. A couple of the lesser known characters, but I remember them. My youngest brother is ten years younger than me so there was a lot of Sesame Street watching in the house up till I graduated high school, which means the characters a

Destination Playground and the MET

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I mentioned in a previous post ( here ) that a friend organizes a destination playground outing about every other week so we moms can take the kids to a new place and get out of the neighborhood a little bit. It is always easier to go on longer outings with more people. It is less overwhelming and it is more exciting to do something with friends along. We ventured not to far out of the neighborhood over to the East Side one fine fall day and played at Ancient Playground and since it was right next to the MET we had to do a quick visit there too. Cosette and her friends found this awesome wall with all different shapes that were made out of stripes on a stripes backgournd (see picture above, because it is kind of hard to describe). We like the "x" the best because we are pirates and "x" marks the spot. One of the Museum workers pointed the kids over to a case full of "funny" vases in the Ancient Roman and Greek art. He thought the kids would like the