My sister tried for three days to send me this so I thought I'd share. The latest staged picture of Lexi. I think she thinks of her as a doll to dress up.

My L stop:
For some unexplained reason to Christa and I at the Washington L stop, everyone rushes to get to the door. I don't see this happening at the other stops but for some reason before the door even closes at Monroe people are jumping up like there's no escape..pushing their way to the doors like someone is out to get them. Guess what people-Christa and I never get up early, we sit until it completely stops and wouldn't you know it...we always make it out the door where we then see all the people who rushed out waiting in a long line for the escalator...

The other day someone was asking me about my old students and I was explaining how some were so "mature" they turned into friends... then I found these pics and felt the need to share a sample:

They still wear children's costume jewelry..


..kiss animals..


..make sand castles..


..don't really know what this is..


..and can't put away an ironing board..


The thing is, I was obviously right there with you...This may sound cheesy but I love you guys and am glad we're friends:)

My weekend in Boston...
This weekend I finally got to go visit everyone in Boston. It was very fun and just relaxing. We had no real schedule but just hung out, had fun together and did a few things around Boston including going to Cheers and a good tapas restaurant. The kids were so cute-it was so good to give them hugs and kisses.

Couple quotes:
-"If we hadn't spent so much time on that a__ maybe we would have time to get dessert"-Ryan
-"We don't think we have enough time so we should just stand here"-Hank in response to everyone stopping for the fifth time trying to decide if we had time to walk to the pastry store.
-"When did our daughter get a Chinese accent?"-Mike to Karen after she was imitating Aiden

Couple funny kid stories:
-Andie now runs across the room and pretends she is running into the door and yells "Ouch" and looks back to see if people are laughing (did she pick this up subconsciously from Brian?)
-The last thing Jonah told me was to point out the cup again that she has to pee in for the doctor

Here are a few pictures.

Aiden had made this for my guest room door


The guys all really wanted to sit together on this metal donkey...


Aiden and I on the train


Ryan is so cute with Miles (there is going to be one lucky lady one day-of course she'll have to go through my screening process)


Andie's angry face


It's pretty much impossible to get them all to look at the camera at once-now I know why Hank had to get so good at Photoshop


Since we forgot to take a picture of us on our ladies night out we ended up getting one right before I left