During Matt's spring break we had the pleasure of a visit from one of my very best friends, Lisa Russell & her husband Scott (who is also a very dear friend). Here we are in the garden of the Home restaurant in the West Village. Me & 2 of my very best friends! 
The Saturday before Easter we went down to Central Park for the Easter Eggstravaganza. There was a big easter egg hunt, which we found out upon our arrival had been cancelled. So we stuck around for the puppet show put on by the Swedish Marrionette Theater and then attempted to do a few other things at the fair, only to realize the lines were incredibly long and neither we nor Lexi had the patience to wait. So we ended up riding the carousel and heading home for naps.
Lexi received her first bonafide musical instrument- Matt gave one of his harmonicas to Lexi. Here they are having a little jam session. We got some good video of it, too.
Yesterday Matt entered the building with full hands, a wound-up Lexi, and another man. I had left to go to Costco with friend Jessica. When Matt got up to the apartment, he couldn't find his keys anywhere even after re-tracing his steps. So either he dropped them down the elevator shaft (through the space between the elevator & the door) or he left them in the outside door to our building where they got swiped. Due to traffic in New Jersey and congestion at Costco, I was gone for 2 hours. Matt waited with Lexi in our lobby, bummed an empanada off Enrique at the bodega, and kept Lexi happy (which was a task since it was past her naptime!). When I got home, we decided to try and keep Lexi up for another hour or so and then put her to bed early. In the meantime, we had to pay our Super a little extra so he would tend to our needs right away by replacing the cylinder lock on our door. As one of the few white tenants in the building, we were nervous that whoever may have swiped the keys would know right where we live and clean us out... we put a movie on while Matt ran to the hardware store and I assisted the super & she was OUT by the end of the first 5 minutes.
The cold and rainy weather today was appropriate for our farewell to our car... we are officially New Yorkers now, relying on mass transit to get around. We posted our car on Craig's List (a sort of online garage sale) and it sold in 2 days! I wasn't expecting it to go so quickly (maybe we should have asked for more money!), so I wasn't really emotionally prepared to say goodbye to the first car I bought with my own money right after my mission. It's been a good car, but more of a liability than an asset here in the city, so we are actually glad to see it go.
A few weeks ago, Pepsi had a big promotion day in Manhattan to promote the new Diet Dew drink (Mountain Dew). Grandma Susan came to the city to hand out lots of free samples and other paraphenalia, and then got to meet Shaun White (aka. The Flying Tomato) who won gold in snowboarding at the 2006 Torino Winter Olympics. She is standing on Shaun's right.
We recently went out to dinner with Grandma Susan at a delicious Indian place near her house. The server delivered the check to the table, and Lexi was all set to sign...