June so far

 June has been such a great month and we are only half way done! It has been pretty rainy which I am okay with since I have heard NYC summers are miserable and humid. I am not really looking forward to the August heat, so we have been trying to take advantage of this cool summer so far. A few weeks ago we went to Madison Square Eats and got some yummy food! There were a bunch of food vendors at Madison Square Park that were serving all kinds of yummy foods. We bought a really good bulgogi beef burrito and then got some shrimp tacos. AHH the food here is so amazing we feel so spoiled to live in the middle of the the greatest food industry in the world. You can literally find anything here, it's amazing! 

 Charley and I have been hitting up the splash pad a lot too. There are a few really fun ones around where we live that Charley just loves! One has water fountains all around it that shoot out water and Charley loves getting her hands in the water as it squirts out. She also will try to slurp up the water like it's a water fountain. The splash pad has a few inches of water all the way around it so it's like a mini pool too which is fun! It's actually an ice-skating rink in the winter which is a genius idea! 

The kids were done at this point, but we wanted to get a picture of them anyway! 

 Charley is my little garden helper too! Every morning we water our plants on our deck and she loves to get into the mud and pull out the cilantro and eat it. 

 We went to this AMAZING Italian restaurant a few nights ago. We found a babysitter and went into Greenwich Village to go to Babbo. We didn't get a picture together, but I took a picture of the menu. We ended up doing the tasting menu which was so good. This place is owned by the Iron Chef, Mario Batali. He is on the food network and is that famous chef who is always wearing shorts and orange crocs:) Anyway, the tasting menu had 7 courses and each course was a small portion but was so tasty and good! There was tortellini, steak, ravioli and the best chocolate lava cake with raspberry sauce! 

Spencer and I also got our neighbor to watch Charley so we could go to a Yankees game. The subway takes you right there and it's a HUGE stadium. It was fun to cheer on the Yankees and watch a little baseball! 

 more splash pad fun! 

One night Spencer had some church meetings, so Charley and I walked up to the park to listen to Jack Johnson! It was so fun just sitting on the grass outside the stadium and listening Jack sing his heart out! Charley loved dancing to his music. 

 and... she is finally starting to stand! It's crazy how it happens overnight, but I finally found something that she can lift herself up onto. It has been hard living in an apartment and not having much that she can pull herself up onto, but one day I opened the dishwasher to get out a snack (yes we use it as extra storage and NOT for washing our dishes), and she came crawling over, so I put a few goldfish on the opened door and she stood right up to grab them! It was amazing!! 

 This is how we grocery shop these days.. love my little sidekick! 

 Yesterday we went to Coney Island and walked on the boardwalk. It is really cool down there with fun circus rides and the beach all in one! We want to go back with our suits and just sit out on the beach all day! There are playgrounds on the sand, so it's perfect to just spend the whole day there with rides, food, beach time and playgrounds. 

 She was a little tuckered out on the way home. 

 We are finally real New Yorkers with a bike and child bike seat to get around! We love this thing so much and so does Charley... well sort of. She cries for a little bit, but once we start going she is fine! Her helmet is a bit big, so we have to put a beanie on her head and then the helmet:) She is a trooper!