Cheese Crack

Fairly often we host a game night with several of our friends from the singles ward. We can always count on Marcus to bring a smattering of cheese from the East Village Cheese Shop including some type of Boursin, which we affectionately call cheese crack because it's so good it's addicting. This is a video from Ella's first taste of the stuff:

The Zoo (again)

This time we spent the afternoon at the Central Park Zoo with Grandma Susan, Aunt Allie & Zac.

Then we strolled across Central Park to the Shake Shack for dinner. On our way we encountered some pretty serious roller skaters and their bike.

Little Artists

The little girls like to lay on the floor together and draw.

First Snow Day

The NYC Department of Education finally decided to have a snow day. The first one in 5 years (at least!) This morning, Matt was in the shower and I was getting breakfast ready for the girls. I turned on NPR to listen to the news whilst I worked and then all of the sudden they announce that NYC public schools are closed today. It was a brief announcement and so at first I thought I had heard wrong. I ran into the bathroom to tell Matt the news, and he too was immediately skeptical. We called 311, which confirmed the rumor. Then loaded up the computer and logged on to the DOE website to see the same announcement. We were SHOCKED. It snowed all morning and then we took the girls to the playground later in the afternoon. The city actually hosts sledding & hot chocolate in many of the city parks on a snow day (providing sleds & hot drinks for free), but we weren't too ambitious to make it out to the event. Just enjoyed a lazy day at home watching the snow fall. I'm sure we won't have another school day like this for 5 more years.