A gorgeous day in prospect park

Team Baker flew off to California today and Mike started school, leaving Sullivan and I completely on our own. Being adventurous members of Team Solis we went out and took advantage of a whole perfect fall day with absolutely no errands or obligations and took the train all by our selves for the first time! We headed up to 7Th Ave, then walked all the way from the north end of Prospect Park to the Southwest Corner, near our neighborhood.

The first stop was the Grand Army Plaza, a monument to the Union Army of the Civil War. Sully really loved the fountains, then we meandered thru the park stopping for playgrounds, statues, especially pretty trees, squirrels and swans.

Sullivan walked a lot on his own, and I am impressed at his ability to keep up and not get too terribly off track (excursions to chase squirrels aside). I am a little terrified by the amount of energy Sully has to burn everyday, it really is an effort to tire him out. He doesn't even drink juice or eat sugary snacks. Sully will most certainly be athletic and luckily there is no shortage of opportunity to be active here.

Sleepy Sully

for El Jefe

This picture is insulting to me as a woman and as a former resident of Bangor

Yet another day at the Zoo

Yesterday we went to the zoo in Prospect Park. Its only 3 stops away on the train, I think it took 30 minutes to get there including the walk to the train station, if that long. Its a really cute zoo with a prairie dog exhibit, turtles, ducks, seals, meerkats, and lots of stuff for kids to climb on and play with. We took a ton of great pictures, including one of a great horned owl and one of a red tailed hawk, which is funny to me because those were two things I desperately wanted to photograph in Wyoming but never managed to get, go figure. I also truly enjoyed observing the city kids at the zoo that were scared of the llamas and that would bang loudly on the glass of the meerkat exhibit because the were sleeping and they wanted to wake them up. Again, this zoo is just another affirmation to me that we made the right choice moving here!After the zoo, we went to an old Dutch farmhouse for an apple festival, Julie worked the apple press and we all drank cider! Julie had never had cider, despite being a half Mainer? Scandalous! but we took care of that!

Look at the manhood on this thing!

Team Solis with the harbour seals

The cow mooing terrified, city girl Daisy!

Julie, working for her cider

Chasing the pigeons, click to enlarge, the kids faces are super cute

The desired effect!

At the park

There is a nice little city park about 5 minutes from Julie & James' place. We take Sully there in the evenings to wear him out before bath and bed time and its working pretty well. He especially loves running fearlessly on the old cobblestone that boarders the park, but lately he has started interacting with the other kids playing too. He says hello by patting heads (and sometimes faces by mistake) and for some kids this works and others not so much, guess we have to work on our playground etiquitte now. The other parents in our neighborhood are mostly very friendly, which sort of surprised me, this place is very neighborly its a nice feeling.

Street Fair

monkeys eating fresh peaches

urban mamas

Corn, possibly from Nebraska

Children playing chess in the street!

Pretty, pretty Daisy

Musicians in the street

There was a street fair today, one street away. Daisy & Sully had a fun time, eating, listening to music and watching all the people. Its really exciting to us that stuff like this happens, its so easy to wear Sullivan out and keep him entertained.

Sully's first train ride

We went shopping today and took the train. Of course, Sully loved it because he loves everything!