East Coast Trip - Leg #2 - Brooklyn in the House

Our trip to NYC started out at Grand Army Plaza on the tip of Prospect Park in Brooklyn. There we went to the Brooklyn Public Library, a beautiful building with inappropriately placed fountains for small children to walk into. Felix loved them and became only slightly drenched after leaning into one particularly high spraying one.



When we finally extracted Felix from the fountain, we went inside the library and experienced the most intense baby storytime ever. Three stories and about 10 songs in the span of a half hour. By the end of it, Felix was rubbing his eyes!


After that, we headed to the park with our friend Nancy and her daughter Casey (pictured above), where we played in the tot lot for a while. Then, we spent some time in Park Slope checking out some shops and eating lunch.

Later that day, after unsuccessful nappage, we headed to Dumbo (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge) to the coolest park ever! It is right on the waterfront looking out towards Manhattan, and as you can imagine, Felix loved it. If you can't tell from the picture, it is a huge boat!

Here he is steering the ship into the Manhattan harbor.

And corraling his passenger pigeon in the bowels of the ship.

We had so much fun at this park that despite the lack of nap, we decided to head into Manhattan and visit some of his moms' favorite places.

Felix loved the subway ride into Manhattan. He was a little overwhelmed by all the people, lights, and noise, but enjoyed watching the doors open and close.

Once in Manhattan, we stopped and picked up some Knishes for our breakfast the next day, and then headed to Veselka's for dinner. We got Pierogies, Kasha, and Stuffed Cabbage, but the thing Felix loved most was the Borscht! An Eastern European child to the core. He snarfed down two bowls of it before he...

crashed in momma's arms, totally exhausted. We then spent a perilous hour and a half making our way back to Brooklyn with a very tired child who then slept very well when we finally made it into his bed.
On our second day in NYC, we hung out at our friend Nina's house with her daughter Naomi (in the pink sweater). There was lots of playing and eating of rice and beans from a local Caribbean spot, and napping. Then, Nancy and her kids came over for pizza. Above is the crazy kid group photo to commemorate the occasion. And that it is for NYC. Next stop, Lancaster!