Vacation! Day #4 (7/15/2014)

I seriously need to get moving on these posts because I am forgetting things by the day.  Here we go, day number 4, our last full day in NYC.  I haven't mentioned it in detail, but Ben's sleep was not the greatest this trip.  Despite the fact that he had a perfectly good pack 'n play right next to our bed, but alas, he wasn't having it.  The first few nights we (I) stayed with him as he fell asleep on our bed, and then we would put him in his bed after he fell asleep.  This worked until he would wake up and attempting to get him back to sleep in there was impossible.  We quickly learned that if we wanted to sleep, we had to let Ben sleep when Ben slept best.  Thus, he and I became bed buddies.  We had been getting up early, so we thought that we would try and check out the Today Show, something that I have always wanted to do.  Since it was supposed to rain every day, we were nervous to go, but it turns out the weather would have been just fine any day we went.  Long story short, we were going to get up early on Tuesday morning to be a part of the Today Show crowd, but since Ben was actually sleeping in (-ish) we let him SLEEP!  We finally got down there just as the show was ending.  Oh well!  Next time!  We still had fun checking out Rockefeller Center.

 
It is getting harder and harder to get a certain someone to smile (a non-cheesed out smile) and look at the camera, but that won't stop me from trying!  I'll take smooches and "noses" over pics though.

Harder yet is trying to get a nice family photo.

After we hit up the super sized Anthropologie (my boys are the BEST shoppers), we decided to walk over to Times Square.  Ben loved taking in the sights and sounds of Times Square.  Well, all the sights EXCEPT for the life-sized Elmo.  He was so into the sights that it was hard to get his attention…

He loves to people watch and to be "up so high!"  I love my happy boy(s) so much!

I take back what I said about Ben and family photos, Ben takes GREAT family selfies.  

The boy loves his sunglasses.

And he loves his momma.  (And he will love Newsies some day.)

I think he might have thought Times Square was some sort of parade.  He was doing a lot of his famous waving.

After we were all pretty tired, we took the subway back home.  "Ben sit! Ben sit!  Big chair!"  (As long as you're holding my hand with both hands and not touching everything in sight you can be a big boy all you want…)

We were warmly welcomed home by Theo, Simone, and Maria.  

Theo had camp that morning, so Ben was happy that he got to play with him in the afternoon.

I had to get my Simmy time in too, even though she looks like she might not be to sure about it...

Normally on our last night we would take out our fabulous host/hostess, but since Patrick works late (like 11:00 or later!!) and it probably wouldn't be the most relaxing night to take all of the kids out, Andy and I took Ben to Lombardi's for some PIZZA!  Despite the downpour on the way there and the way home, we managed to stay pretty dry!  The pizza was delicious, but do not be fooled by my happy face.  Ben was only pulling my leg when he pretended to take his first bite of pizza!

Our trip breezed by so quickly!  Thankfully we had a later flight, so we had 1 more day to spend with the gang!