Wednesday, November 02, 2005

Squirrels:1, NYC:0

Because we are the kind of parents who are always trying to teach our children SOMETHING, even when we are just on a plane, we asked the kids what their favorite thing they saw/did/experienced while in NYC last week. Make them reflect on the trip, etc. (We are very touchy-feely at our house.) Carrie thought a moment and said she was excited to have seen an orthodox Jew (ed note: she just read The Chosen and My Name is Asher Lev so she has all things Hasidic on the brain right now.) She also liked the Met. Lucas enjoyed going to The Blue Man Group and seeing Starry Night at MoMA. Ellis couldn’t choose. (Give her a break, she’s only two).

Jonah let us know that his favorite thing was counting squirrels in Central Park.

So spending a ton of cash to get to NYC and staying in a fancy schmancy midtown hotel is obviously wasted on the seven year old set.

I think I’ll just be getting him a stick for Christmas. He doesn’t need an xbox 360, after all.

But on the plus he totally “gets” how traffic works in NYC. We were crossing the street (with the light, of course, it’s near suicide to jaywalk or go against the light) and a cab get a touch too close to use. I swear, I thought he was going to pull a “Ratso Rizzo” from Midnight Cowboy and begin shouting “Hey! Yo! I’m walkin’ here! I’m walkin’ here!” complete with pounding his little hand on the hood.

So maybe the trip wasn’t totally wasted on him.

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