Some pics!

Writing her Target list....

Arden's new look...

Cheeeeeese....

Weekend Ramblings

And so ends another nice weekend for our household....one with the perfect balance of busy, yet relaxing.

Saturday morning kicked off with gymnastics. Arden's regular teacher was back, so everything was right with the world. The woman amazes me, somehow spending hour after hour every Saturday with 4 and 5 year olds, teaching them the basics of gymnastics. After 2 weeks of substitutes thanks to gymnastic meets for the older kids, it's pretty apparent that Ally is the child whisperer.

We spent the rest of Saturday with our friends, Juli and Alisha, and their two kids. Arden and their daughter, B, spent nearly 5 hours playing with each other. The girls get along swimmingly, and so do the moms. I closed out the evening with a trip to the market with the list Dora made the previous night. Truly a wild Saturday night around these parts! But let's be honest, aren't they all?

Today included a trip to Target, where Arden and I sought out some organizational things for the house. The kitchen drawers left something to be desired, as did the kid's art supplies. We managed to walk out of Target for under $60 (including new Spiderman toothbrushes for the child), so we're going to call that a successful trip. What is it about that store that makes me want to just spend money?

We spent a fair amount of time today watching Rosie O'Donnell's latest documentary about families. It is a wonderful, special documentary about all kinds of families, much of it told through interviews with children. There has been a lot of talk about families in our household lately, so this being on On Demand is certainly timely. Might I be so bold as to recommend it to anyone and everyone, kids or no kids? More details are here www.hbo.com/index.html#/documentaries/a-family-is-a-family-is-a-family-a-rosie-odonnell-celebration.

Pics in the next post!

The Bride

Arden informed us this weekend that she would be getting married to a young fellow named Cameron. And so the girl, who once (and by once I mean many, many times, sobbed at the idea of wearing a dress) ...



Who is also the girl who was betrothed, in utero, to this handsome little bee...

Came downstairs to us in her wedding wear. And told us that the little bee you see above is her friend, and 'we all need friends' ... but that Cameron...Cameron is her king.

When I picked her up at school today she told me that she and Cameron (who is of the blonde variety, with 'hurly swirly hair'), practiced dancing for their wedding. I wonder how Cameron feels about being the future First Husband of the United States.

Valentine's Day 2010

We took a hike in the woods on Valentine's Day. Both the child and the dog needed to burn sugar induced energy, and with the temperature over 40, we decided to conquer the outdoors. 2.6 miles later, the dog snored her way to visit Nonna and Arden stared glaze-eyed out the window.

Arden, Dora and Lucy head for the forest.

Arden with the first of her many walking sticks.

Arden walking Lucy. That always goes well....

Rosy cheeked but happy...

The Story Behind the Title

A fair amount of thought went into the title of this blog. An offshoot of The Doodlebug Chronicles, where we tracked, albeit somewhat intermittently, the first four years of Arden's life, this blog will be a bigger snapshot of our life as couple #117. On May 17th, 2004, around 2AM, we were the 117th couple to receive our marriage license in Cambridge, MA. The 117th couple to be granted the right to legally marry. Which we did, May 21, 2004.

So this is our story, as parents to the most brilliant, gorgeous, frustratingly logical yet insanely imaginative girl named Arden. As a two-mom family, as a two full-time working mom family in the great (although cold) state of Massachusetts.