One weekend, Brittney convinced Mark to take the kids to the city for multiple adventures. First Julie and Brittney went to a puppet show of favorite books Goodnight Moon & Runaway Bunny (we have been getting lots of free press tickets lately through Kid On The Town). Julie was very interested in learning how the puppet demos after the show.
Mark and Max hung out in Washington Square with colorful dogs and chess masters. Max lost but impressed everyone with his skill.
Julie has lived in the (cleaner) subrurbs long enough to lose any fear of rolling down strange hills.
The girls visited a trendy vegan cafe while the boys scarfed down Artichoke’s Pizza.
Mark took Julie home to nap and Max and Brittney continued uptown to pay tourist at Rockefeller Center ice rink, both the real one and the (perhaps more exciting) LEGO version.
No trip to Manhattan is complete without a visit to an overpriced chocolate store.
Then we took a family ‘Assemblage’ workshop at MoMA. We looked at Picasso’s sculptures and made observations about how they were put together, then made our own assemblage creation.
Max often works slowly, and sometimes at first I think he’s not doing the assignment, then he comes up with something unique and brilliant (and least it seems so to his mom). This creation has a movable piece that can swing on a string or be contained. He did a great job explaning it to the rest of the class. The extreme height was hard to engineer, but with my help we got it to stay standing.
Making wishes in the MoMA fountain, something we’ve loved to do for a while. Here’s a photo from a visit we had right before Julie was born. Glad we can still have special Mommy & Max adventures together.
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