Baby sitting

But this time it was Kate as the baby sitter not the baby sittee. We went out for dinner with friends and Kate baby sat their adorable daughter Emma who is 5, maybe 6 years old and just as smart as a whip. She really keeps Kate on her toes. When we came back from dinner they were curled on the top bunk and playing Vet with Kate having to give a diagnosis and treament plan for all of Emma's many many stuffed animals.

Our regular weekend routine includes a trip up to Central Park to try and run Miss Murray ragged, shopping for my favorite tomatoes at Whole Foods and then this particular Saturday I went off for a transformative hair cut before I met Kate and Arnie at the Cooper Hewitt Museum of Design which was an inspired stop. The Carnegie Mansion built for the Carnegia family is beautiful beyond belief with amazing architectural details and it has had many incarnations from a private home to the center for Columbia University School of Social work and now it is the best: A design Museum. The exhibitions were amazing and appealing to adults and children alike with a stunning light fixture that changed shape like a jelly fish, a grain thresher built out of an old bycycle and a chair made of packing materials. Kate was enthralled and then because it was family day there were activities in the garden and stuff just specially for kids including story telling which is always my favorite.

Arnie and I went to the movies to see the second of the Stiegg Larsson triology which was very violent but good! And then Sunday was really too hot to do too much and so we didn't do too much.