Our first warm day of the year! gotta get the kiddie pool out.
K made up her first joke:

Why did the chicken cross the road?
to get away from the bee

some great articles on maternity care
http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/tag/politics-of-childbirth

A quote from one of the articles Why Women Deliver?Why Now?

The fact of life is that huge disparities exist between rich and poor countries, and between the rich and the poor in all countries.

One in 30,000 women in Sweden will die of pregnancy complications.
One in 2,500 women will die of these causes in the United States.
In sub-Saharan Africa, one in every 16 women will die in pregnancy or childbirth.
In Afghanistan, such complications kill one in every seven women.

Sad to see the US has such a high rate of mortality for an industrialized country and even sadder is that most American don't realize there's a problem.

Busy week! we went to new york last weekend for our neice's Bat Mitzvah. We had a great time overall. Then we had roofers come this week, so i pretty much tried to get out each day since it was so noisy. Alas today I just wanted to stay in and now I feel bored, guess I can't win.

My girls decided to play dress up today and called themselves "Mrs and Mr Bunny" and of course they needed to eat bunny food, so I got them a bowl of carrots and lettuce and they actually ate it all up.

Strawberry Picking!

It's that time of year again, strawberry time! Girls had lots of fun

saw some interesting cloud formation, they were sorta pointing downwards

• So yesterday, took the girls into Boston to go to the scooper bowl festival. Went on the train with a friend. Girls had fun on the train. We were going to go to bosotn commons and let them play on the playground and have a picnic before going for some ice cream. When we go to the playground, it was closed, drat! so we decided to do swan boats, went there and it was packed with school kids on a trip. So we managed to find another playground a bit away to play in. Then we finally get to the scooper bowl (whilst K asking for strawberry ice cream the whole 15 min walk over) It was packed and just insanely crazy. Very poorly designed for efficiency thats for sure. So we got all the kids and put them in one spot and herded them in, while we got some ice cream and brought it back. had one scare when megan ran off but luckily someone spotted her. After our tummy's were full of junk we headed back to train and stopped at some park with a fountain of water. Well girls jumped right in, oops have no dry clothes! just one pair of pants. So megan went pantless the rest of way but we did have her in stroller. K was complaining that her feet had no socks, well i told you if you went in water i had no dry socks! But overly a good day, pretty stressfull for mommy though.

So I finally got my little old hands on the book Born in the Usa by Marsden Wagner. Been dying to read it! Of course the stuff in it, isn't all that shocking to me but yet it still is shocking and makes me even more infuriated. It's a good read and I'd recommend it.

Went to jury duty and luckily there was no trials! I did get to read in quiet for a few hours, so it wasn't a total waste of time. I started reading Living Downstream by Sandra Steingraber, depressing for sure.

New hats!

I tie dyed the girls new hat. They really liked them and was very pleased to display some sisterly love for the camera.