Olin's Holiday Break

Olin is back at school today so I thought I would share a few Instagrams from the past two weeks...  (By the way, it's a little embarrassing how many of these photos are of us out to eat - apparently we primarily get inspired to bring out the camera when we are waiting for food!)

A few more from Christmas morning - Olin helped make pancakes that he enjoyed eating under the Christmas tree before he started in on his presents.

Dinner at Sarabeth's after a shopping trip for little girl's clothes that was ultimately unsuccessful.  We never really thought of this place for dinner - it's really good for breakfast and brunch - but we had an incredible dinner that night! 

Little mister is lucky to have so many people in his life that love him that the number of gifts for him to open was just too much for one day so we had to spread it out to the days following Christmas as well!

One frigid morning, we rolled out of bed and headed down to the West Village for an always amazing breakfast at 'sNice.

We drove out to Long Island for some after Christmas shopping.  We were successful this time and found our little girl on the way a lot of cute things at Saks.  And don't worry, Olin got a few things as well!  We surprisingly didn't take any pictures of him in the mall, but we took this one at lunch at our suburban staple... Panera!

Enjoying our last few days with the Christmas tree.  Without saying a word, one day Olin went into his room, got his rocking chair and then pulled it out to the living room where he then just sat and stared at the tree.  I am dreading the day that we have to take it down - he is going to be so disappointed - he says 'goodbye' to it when we leave the apartment and 'hello' to it as soon as we arrive back home.  If it were a fake tree, I swear I would just keep it up and replace the Christmas ornaments with Valentine's Day decorations. 

Last night, Olin and I walked up to Columbia so that we could walk Josh home from work and on nearly every street corner on our way there were piles of discarded Christmas trees waiting to be picked up.  He just kept exclaiming "Christmas tree! Christmas tree!" when we passed by so excited to see so many, not realizing that the trees were now in fact trash.

Grammy Marion also came for a visit over the break, but I will include those photos in a separate post because this one is getting a little long!