No more waiting

Since I had complained about the waiting game of the end of pregnancy I wanted to report that thankfully it did come to a nice ending with our lovely third daughter a few weeks ago. The past month has been a blur of not much sleep and lots of nursing and diapers, but we get to cuddle a very cute little baby!

Our phil&teds Explorer came in handy even while I was in labor. My water broke early in the morning on our son's first day of kindergarten. I thought labor might go really fast like it did with my second child. We headed to our birth center, but things stopped progressing. We decided to come home and made our kids a pancake breakfast. We then loaded our 3 year old in the stroller and walked a mile to get Colin to school. I think the walk helped get things moving again, and our new little girl joined us a few short hours later. I can now add to the reason I like phil&teds, they helped me not be pregnant anymore!

Here I am with my son at school, in labor and in all my huge pregnant glory! It feels so good to not be pregnant anymore! I have extreme respect for the moms of multiples as I can barely handle gestating just one baby!

Now we begin our real parenthood adventure as we are outnumbered by our children!

Fun cities to explore with kids-Mexico City

As we are home a bit more with a new baby and a more serious school schedule, I thought it would be fun to outline kid friendly things to do in some of our favorite cities. We do have 3 trips planned for the last few months of the year, can't stay still too long!

First stop in fun cities to explore with kids, Mexico City, Mexico!!

With kids in Mexico City head directly to el Bosque de Chapultepec!! We had an apartment in Zona Rosa, just a short walk from this truly amazing park. The size of Chapultepec makes New York's Central Park seem like a small community park; Wikipedia tells us it is Latin America's largest park. Get to the amazing free zoo as soon as you can!

The Chapultepec Zoo is a very impressive zoo with great animal habitats and some rare to see animals like pandas and condors. We also loved the monkeys! Our son was only about a year and a half at the time and in his vocab, all the animals were either doggies, kitties, or birds.

How sweet is that baby monkey!

The zoo also has a lovely butterfly and insect exhibit, which requires an extra ticket but is very reasonable and worth it. We loved being so close to all the beautiful butterflies and gross bugs.

Also located near Chapultepec is the Papalote Museo del nino, the Children's Museum of Mexico City. It is a massive wonderland of all things fun. We adore children's museums but wonder if it is a little confusing for our little ones. Suddenly they have a place where they can play with everything and then we go back to the real world where they cannot touch everything.

Our very pale blond little boy got lots of attention in Mexico!

One of our favorite places in the museum was the bubble room! Completely fun and amazing! My husband and I would have spent a lot of time playing in here even without our son.

If you have time while in Mexico City, make sure and head to the ruins of Teotihuacan! Just a short drive out of the city and completely incredible!

Here are Brian and Colin climbing the Pyramid of the Sun. So sad Colin will not remember this place, hope we can go back when he is older. My mom can empathize with Colin's young adventures. She was born in Chile and by the time she was 7 years old had traveled all over Latin America but sadly, does not remember much. She knows what it is like to be told all of the places she has been that she does not recall.

Me walking down the Calle de los muertos, the Street of the Dead, trying to not get a sunburn. The Pyramid of the Moon is at the end of the road. Teotihucan was a huge city, so many fun places to explore and climb.

While in Mexico, don't forget to catch some Mariachis! Can't go wrong at the Anthropology Museum also.

Viva Mexico!!