Brooklyn Botanic Garden again

Oh the wonders of a grasshopper. He was taken captive for a
short time, but released unharmed.

Plant Spider, in the childrens garden.

This is where the classes go for their summer classes.

Do you feel more peaceful now? The Japanese Garden is quite soothing and beautiful.

I think I would totally do a photo shoot next to the
Japanese Garden.

I could not figure out why the fish were gathering for meal time
until I realized that my kidlets were dropping in cereal they smuggled out
of my bag.

Governor's Island

You should come to Governor's Island!
Super cost-efficient!
Free bike rides for 1 hour on Friday (even with a kid seat on the bike--yay).

Free Mini Golf--my kidlets loved it!

Touchable art exhibit--the kids love it. They have a delightful drum set that is loud.

It's an old historically significant military base.

NY Philharmonic Concert

Go see the New York Philharmonic Concert, your kids may not pay attention, you may not be able to absorb the music to the extent you'd like, but it will be a marvelous experience if you prep and work together to make it a delightful and exciting night.

Pack food, bug repellent, water, a blanket, balloons if you are meeting people, glow-in-the-dark things, games, etc. Sit in the back if you've got kids because there is more room for running around and catching fire flies. Snaps (you know the little white things you throw on the ground and they snap) is a great occupier pre-and-post concert. Enjoy!

100 Things To Do With Your Kids In NY Before They Grow Up

On Mommy Poppins I found this:

1. Visit the NY Hall of Science
2. Go on an audition just for the heck of it
3. Wave to the cameras on The Today Show
4. Have tea at the Plaza
5. Ride the Shark Boat
6. Climb the Statue of Liberty
7. Ride the row boats in Central Park
8. Go to Dylan's Candy Bar
9. Go to Economy Candy
10. Get locked up at the Police Museum
11. Go kayaking on the hudson
12. Take the ferry to Sandy Hook beach
13. Ride a horse-drawn carriage in Central Park
14. Have dim sum in Brooklyn's Chinatown
15. Go hiking in the Staten Island Greenbelt
16. See the new Liberty Science Center
17. Go fishing in the East River
18. Go on a fishing boat from Sheepshead Bay
19. See the money train at the Transit Museum
20. Go to the Brooklyn Children's Museum
21. Get a taste of country life at the Queens Farm Museum
22. Ride on a tug boat
23. Sail on the historic schooner Pioneer
24. Sail in the hudson
25. Take a helicopter ride
26. ride the Cyclone before it's gone
27. Grab the ring at the Coney Island carousel
28. Spend my wad at Dave and Buster's Arcade
29. march in the Mermaid Parade
30. Go to a Brooklyn Cyclone's game
31. Fulfill a child's wish through operation santa claus
32. See the ballet
33. Watch a dress rehearsal of an opera at the Met
34. Sleep over at the Bronx Zoo
35. See the unicorns at the Cloisters
36. Go horseback riding
37. Go sledding in Central Park
38. Cross-country ski down a city street
39. Bike across the Brooklyn Bridge and get ice cream at the Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory
40. Take the Roosevelt Island Tram
41. See the piano dancers at FAO
42. Visit the Sony Wonder Technology Lab
43. Children's Museum of Manhattan
44. Children's Museum of the Arts
45. Sketch at Metropolitan Museum of Art
46. Stargaze at the Hayden Planetarium
47. See the rest of the AMNH after the dinosaurs and mammals
48. Visit the top of the Empire State Building
49. Take an art class at the MoMA
50. Chinese Scholar's Garden in Staten Island
51. Cherry Blossom Festival at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
52. Holiday Train Show at NY Botanical Garden
53. Check out the Queens Zoo
54. See the wandering wallabies at the Prospect Park Zoo
55. Watch a movie under the stars
56. Madame Tussauds
57. Try all the flavors at the Chinatown Ice Cream Factory
58. Look up relatives in Ellis Island
59. Visit new waterside playground in Chelsea
60. Get colonial at the Fraunces Tavern Museum
61. Do a medieval workshop at Cathedral of St John the Divine
62. The Lower East Side Tenement Museum
63. See the rollerbladers perform in Central Park (just West of the Sheep's Meadow)
64. Fly a kite on the Sheep Meadow
65. See Shakespeare in the Park
66. Going biking on Governor's Island
67. Find the secret Downing Street Playground in the Village
68. Explore Battery Park City Parks from the South Cove to Penny Park
69. Ride the Staten Island Ferry
70. Have knishes and egg creams at Yonah Schimmel's
71. See the giant buddha in the Mahayana temple
72. The Skyscraper Museum
73. Play vintage video games at The Museum of Moving Image
74. The Museum of the American Indian
75. Buy comic books at Forbidden Planet
76. Free concert in Madison Square Park and Get lunch at the Shake Shack
77. Buy flowers from the flower district
78. Buy wholesale toys in the wholesale district (27th and 6th)
79. Swing Clubs at the Chelsea Piers Driving Range
80. Climb the rock wall on Broadway
81. Visit the Science Barge
82. Visit the Intrepid
83. Test out the Whispering Gallery at Grand Central
84. Coney Island Arcade
85. Cook our own food in a Korean restaurant
86. Sail boats on the boat pond in Central park
87. Billy Johnson Rustic Playground in Central Park
88. Explore Belvedere Castle
89. Medieval Festival in Fort Tryon Park
90. Ride the carousel in Bryant park
91. See the to scale panorama of the City of New York at the Queens Museum of Art
92. Get Egyptian at the Brooklyn Museum of Art
93. See the new Greeks and Romans at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
94. Go ice skating in Prospect Park
95. Riverbank State Park carousel
96. See the holiday lights in Dyker Heights
97. Take a trapeze lesson
98. See the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade balloons get inflated
99. Watch the circus elephants march into town
100. Swim in the floating barge pool

My kids and I are going to try to do these things, although I admit I have not heard of all of the places. I am going to count the ones you've seen already--I am going to add numbers. :) Thanks!

Manhattan Cupcakes

Yummy! Opt for the vanilla cupcake with any sort of icing. The cheesecake is pretty tasty too! Take friends, anything this tasty should be shared.

Brooklyn Botanic Garden #51

Everything bloomed at once.

P.S. They don't like it when children dig or play in the dirt around the trees. The trees, apparently, dislike it intensely.

NY Hall of Science #1

Glorious New York City in all its beauty is a wonderful place to raise a family.

This blog is a place where New York Moms are able to tell of their experiences with their own happy twist. Pictures of NYC may be posted but not pictures of our dear kidlets (unless they are very discreet and we cannot see their faces too well).