an instagram weekend

we had a pleasure of having the newly engaged aunt katie and kurt (congrats, congrats!) visiting so we ran around the city this weekend. friday night we headed to the suburbs, my first trip out of grand central, to the blaze festival. thousands of craved pumpkins were displayed on the grounds of a manor. 

saturday we went to chelsea market for brunch followed by a walk on the high line. 

then we tried fancy and delicious donuts at the doughnut plant.

that evening was vietnamese in chinatown followed by dessert at ferrara's.

sunday we went all the way to 116th to check out columbia university.

it turned out that some students were practicing their chinese dragon moves. william was enthralled.

and since we were in the neighborhood i had to see the seinfeld restaurant.

a perfect fall weekend.

10 months

this week we celebrated william's 10 month birthday! yeah for growing up!

he's still not mobile (which is fine by me). but he's preferred method of playing is done standing. he's also taken some steps by holding onto our hands. i think we may skip the crawling stage all together. 

the most entertaining accomplishment of the month is learning how to say bye-bye and hello. he waves to himself and says buh-buh. i find it endlessly entertaining. 

 he also cut his second tooth. this month has been filled with lots of drooling. notice how all the pictures he has drool on his chin? we soak through a couple shirts a day. 

william continues to be a champion eater. he now insists on taking his own bites from the banana and he's ventured into meat and loves it. finger foods are now preferred and he loves to stuff his mouth. 

and his favorite game continues to be dropping any object and watching any sucker pick it up and hand it back so he can drop it again. (although balloons he finds perplexing, they don't drop when he lets go...) william we love you! 

lady liberty

this past saturday we decided to be the ultimate tourists in our own city and visit the statue of liberty and ellis island. she deserves extra-large pictures.

since she is in our backyard we decided to get up close. it was both william's and ben's first trip.

the views of lower manhattan (and our building) were great.

and lady liberty was impressive as well.

we did make it to ellis island as well, but only the grass outside the building and gift shop. william was done being a tourist.

the best part was it only took us a 5 minute walk to get to the ferry from our apartment. yippee for living as downtown as you can get!