Smith Family Playground

Philly has an amazing play house- yes, I wrote that right, a huge mansion in Fairmount park donated for the use of children's play only. There are several rooms including a car garage with little tike bikes and cars, complete with a road and traffic signals, a reading room with shelves of books, a toy room, and a gigantic outdoor playscape with multiple sections for infants/toddlers, smaller kids, and big kids. We stayed outdoors on the swings with Jahni's friend Suri, who we ran into at the playground.

Back from the Beach

Back from a day at the beach, we relaxed at home and had Aunty Priya come join us and Aunty Dara. How lucky is Jahni to have so many aunts want to come visit. Thank you Aunty Priya for the stuffed elephant and monkey! Hope you leg gets better.

Beach Day- Cape May

This was Jahni's first trip to the beach! We went to Cape May NJ which is on the Jersey Shore, no not like the tv show because this beach is very very classy. Auntie Dara, me, and Jahni loved the water. It was perfect... Dara came from NYC to join us. Although we sat in lots of traffic to get there, as these pics show, it was such a nice time.

Naked Chocolate Cafe

After dinner at Le Castagne, a very good Italian restaurant near my work, we walked around Rittenhouse Square Park and went to Naked Chocolate Cafe for dessert. There we listened to a band called the Three Blind Mice play jazz music. It was so much fun...

More Birthday Fun...

Happy Birthday Jahni!

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Jahni turned one on July 25 and we had nice, casual party at Franklin Square Park in Philly. we had a few kids and the park setting- which includes a carousel and mini golf was a lot of fun....

Not the Birthday Girl

Jahni and I went to celebrate her friend Teddy's birthday on Saturday. We had a lot of fun playing with all the fellow 1 year olds and being in awe of everyones development- Suri can walk, Teddy is so mellow, and other were so much bigger...