I am starting to understand why Mom likes Thanksgiving so much. It is a fun day! With lots of food and a visit from grandma and your friends sitting at the table with you.
I made sure the table was decorated

From November 2011

Mom conquered the turkey, a pretty big deal for her!

From November 2011

And Papa had a very important job

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And we all shared the most important job: Eating

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cheers!

From November 2011

Friday morning, Grandma surprised me with tickets to the puppet show in Brookline. We say Jack and the bean stock and I loved it! Afterwards, we drove down to Plymouth to show Grandma and Uncle Scott the Mayflower II

From November 2011

Grandma and I learned a lot of things on the boat

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We couldn’t skip on the Plimoth plantation, a hands-on visit!

From November 2011

We ended the day by getting into the Christmas spirit at Edaville USA

From November 2011

Saturday morning, my little friend Mathilde turned one! She doesn’t speak yet, but I know she loved the cake!

From November 2011

We stopped at Faneuil hall for the annual Christams Tuba concert, there were 150 of them! What a show!

From November 2011

Sunday came too fast! Even more so, because I can ride my bike now

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It was hard to say goodbye, but taking Mom and Dad to the new playground on the Esplanade helped easy my sadness, and once I found my classmate there, I was having a great day all over again!

From November 2011

Pretty nice weekend, I know! I hope yours was just as fabulous. Wanna see more of my adventures?
Click on the album below:

November 2011

I’ve heard it many times, I have a good sense of fashion, now was the time to show it off! School organized a fashion show for which we could wear whatever we wanted. There was music and a live audience, I just had to give it my all!

From November 2011

Mom then accompany me to Knucklebones and I showed her how we learn to stretch and workout with all kinds of equipment

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No surprise then that after such a great workout I have such great style when playing ball!

From November 2011

and without losing an ounce of fashion!

From November 2011

We’d given up on fall this year! After temperature record breaking in mid-october and the record snow fall at the end of last month, fall seemed to have decided it wasn’t going to dress up this year.

Well never count nature out! One morning we walk up to this view:

From November 2011

We decided to go check out the view at the Arnold Arboretum. I showed Uncle Scott the way to Peter’s Hill

From November 2011

We could almost see his house from up there. And do you recognize the Hancock bldg? I did!

From November 2011

Our Pedestrian corridor is looking good too

From November 2011

The next day we saw this at the corner of our street

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and decided to take another local walk,

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to the river this time. I got a bird’s eye view

From November 2011

The thermometer climbed back up in the 70′s this week and we took a day to visit

From November 2011

The apple orchard at Tougas Farm

From November 2011

Fuji, Granny Smith, Mutsu and our all time favorite, Cortland apples

From November 2011

Come with me next time!

From November 2011

Great day with Mom

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Before the next storm , which will likely blow everything away

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We took in the colors at Public Garden

From November 2011

Early in the morning…

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Isn’t it sooooooooooooooo pretty?

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and aren’t we so pretty?!

From November 2011

Another day another hike

From November 2011

To Buck Hill in the Blue Hills Reservation this time

From November 2011

Mom and I

From November 2011

Enjoyed the view

From November 2011

It all started with lots of gooey stuff

From October 2011

After some hard work

From October 2011

I won most creative pumpkin this year!

From October 2011

Preschool, the next day, was all fun and games

From October 2011

And then I ran for my life to avoid the fate of this poor smurf

From October 2011

My friends and I

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And Tess too

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filled up our buckets in the street of the South End, without forgetting our Lion friend

From October 2011

Nope, Gargamel did not get me

From October 2011

Our pumpkins fared well

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And myself, brainy smurf and Gargamel got along just fine

From October 2011

Curious about the rest of our adventures this months? Check out the photo album below, a click away

October 2011

My favorite is: Pink and purple

My favorite animal is: a cow and a dog and a giraffe

My favorite game is: My experiment lab

My favorite fruit is: a large strawberry

My favorite meal is: Breakfast for dinner

My favorite vegetable is: broccoli

My favorite book is: Fancy Nancy

My favorite toy is: my dog and my cow

My best friend is: Tess and Beatriz

My favorite place is: Paris

My favorite treat is: candy and for dessert I like strawberry pancakes and I like lollipops too

My favorite song is: Fancy Nancy

My favorite exercise: Push-ups

Another weekend, another getaway… This time to Rhodes Island

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We started big, as big as it gets, with the visit of one of the Newport’s Cottages, the Breakers, which was the Vanderbilt summer residence in their heydays. It boast over 70 rooms and as many staff worked there before it became a museum.
I showed off my best curtsy

From October 2011

which I followed with:

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Our lunch was just as grandiose and we ate in fine company with our friends Helena, Guillaume and Mathilde who joined us for a meal:

From October 2011

Our post lunch digestive excercise took us along the scenic Cliff Walk

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and some interesting moss discoveries

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Before it got dark we left Newport for the Roger William Zoo in Providence where we patiently waited in line to see

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The Jack-o-Lanterns Spectacular

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Over 5000 pumpkins carved to perfection… That was my favorite part of the day.

Sunday took us to the Blue Hills Reservation on our way back to Boston for a colorful

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but chilly hike

From October 2011

The weather that is!

From October 2011

After a cooler apple picking weekend, we headed down to Providence, RI the next weekend for the last WaterFire show of the season. It was a very summer like evening and, like always a magical one, our friend Lisa really enjoyed the show

From October 2011

The next day was a temperature record day for us so, we just had to dust off our swimsuit and head to Crane Beach with our friends

From October 2011

After a few last nice days, cooler temperatures seem to have come to stay which meant just a hint of color for our weekend trip to Connecticut

From October 2011

We visited a turkey farm

From October 2011

Did you know they grew faster than me??? From chick to table in 4months!

From October 2011

We left them to gobble gobble and headed to the best scavenger hunt corn maze ever!

From October 2011

It was a great day at the farm

From October 2011

Our hosts, Donna and Tim, were super nice and I loved their farm too, it had Alpacas- they like to give me kisses- donkeys and chickens. I got to pick one of the eggs from the chicken house and we at them all for breakfast, how great is that!
Before heading home on Sunday, I took Papa for a walk in the forest and showed him where to find automn olives to snack on

From October 2011

and made a pretty bouquet for Donna

From October 2011

I had my annual check up. Papa took me to the doctor, but little did he know that I was getting all kinds of shots this time!

We all survived, and I am happy to say that I am a healthy little girl (or not so little anymore!)

My stats are
43.25 inches, that’s in over the 97th percentile
39.2lbs, a healthy 70th percentile

For you to enjoy, all of our adventures from last month in pictures!

Septembre 2011

It all started with a special visit from San Diego: Grandpa and Grandma came to Boston to see me! And what better way to reunite than at a Red Sox Game

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Mom and Dad had a great time

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I got decked out in my first Red Sox gear

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and was my silly self

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Fenway is quite the place

From Septembre 2011

I had a smurfing birthday this year!

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we headed to the park and got creative

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My friends and I loved to babysit our youngest guest

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I got myself some yummy lunch

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but she preferred her own food

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Perfectly simple entertainment

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and some quiet moments

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before cake time! Isn’t it an awesome cake!

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Let’s not forget one of the best parts

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And an attempted group picture

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before taking over the playground

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enjoying special moments

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and spinning so fast we all fell down! That was the best smurf day ever!

From Septembre 2011

But the fun didn’t end there! On my birthday we headed to Masa, decoration in hand, for a delicious brunch

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we took a digestive walk in the arboretum and came across an interesting creature. It was cold and smooth to the touch…

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but the best part of that day, was sharing it with my family

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after practicing balancing on my new bike

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We all shared another cake!!!

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and some smurfing goodies

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I had a wonderful visit with my grand-parents

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But that wasn’t the end of the celebration. I kept practicing

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and made it back to school after the long weekend to, what else, celebrate my birthday with my friends! Mom and Dad joined me at lunch time for a pizza party with all my teachers, Brook and Kristen

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and Aileen

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We played silly games

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and I got to pick the story of the day

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I didn’t know that mom left…One more cake!

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to share with all my school friends

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Being 4 years old is awesome!