So a few weeks ago I was having "one of those days" and was about to lose my mind!! This house can be detrimental to one's mental health (there'll be more on this later but the short story is that we live in a 3 family house surrounded by family! Yeah. Fun.) and it was happening to me!!

I was washing dishes and I can't remember if the phone rang, or someone knocked on the door or if it was Papa yelling from the hall- but I turned the faucett off, left the sink full of dirty dishes and bubbles and told Kass to grab her sandals. "We're gettin outta here", I told her and she was more than happy to oblige! See? Even my 3 year old needs a break from this house!!

We grabbed our bags and took the short walk to the train station. I still had NO IDEA what we were doing or where we were going but Kass was just happy to be riding the train. Seriously, I could spend $1.70 and ride the train all day and my kid would be happy! Screw the $5000 worth of toys in her room! I decided that if we got off in the center of Boston there had to be something we could find to do!! And we did...

Even though she's a little too young to understand the whole Freedom Trail, I figured we'd walk it and just see the sights and see what we could find to do. She loved looking up at all the skyscrapers and found it hilarious that the birdies lived up there too!! The city was swarming with people and she said hi to every one of them let me tell ya! She's so funny. I keep her around for the entertainment value alone!

We finally make our way to the Boston Commons and I figure we can't go wrong there considering there's a park the size of Rhode Island and the Frog Pond which is a huge water fountain and wading pool (in the winter they freeze it over and people can skate!). She saw the slide in the park and was off liek a rocket! There were a ton of people in the park and I figured it'd be good to give her a little space and let her play with some kids her own age. I sat close and kept a good eye on her because she can be a little bossy sometimes. From the top of the slide, she yelled, "Mama a pool!!". I figured she meant the Frog Pond so we took a walk over.

The Frog Pond was more crowded than the park so I kept her close especially since she's a splasher! She behaved herself pretty well and looked like a drowned rat by the time we were done! I of course forgot my camera in our quick escape from the house so I have no pics to share but we had a blast. She put up a little fight when it was time to leave so I threatened to never visit Boston again and we were on our way home.

As we were walking back to the train station I asked Kassie if she had a good time and she said that she "had fun fun fun fun fun." I'll take that as a yes! She was walking a little ahead of me, chasing pigeons as usual, and suddenly turned back, ran at me and grabbed my hand to walk next to me. She looked up at me and said "Thank you mama for our trip to Boston. Your my best friend."

I'm her best friend. Yeah, it made me all warm and fuzzy too!