More April Vacation Field Trips

Today's plan was to head down to Children's Hospital to get our little flatty-heads checked out.  Since we were going to be in town, we thought we'd head over to the Public Garden and get our Swan Boats on!  For additional adult support we kidnapped one of my former students, Allie, and brought her with us.

We arrived in the Children's garage at 9:05 for our 10:00 appointments!  Yay for being super crazy and getting out of the house at 7:30!!!  We were greeted by a bunch of semi-ignorant people who don't know how to get out of the way when there is a tractor trailer sized stroller coming their way.  Also there were tons of people who didn't know how to skooch out of the way when said tractor trailer sized stroller gets into an elevator.  We took a total of 3 elevators to get to the appointment and of course 3 to get back to the van.  We had a SUPER tight squeeze with the glass elevator at the main entrance of the hospital.  The Triple Decker literally got scraped by the elevator doors as they closed.  YIKES!!!

Other than that, I have nothing but nice things to say about that hospital.  Everybody was great and what was even better is that the boys don't need helmets!!!  The doctor thinks they're getting better every day and will be all set in no time.  He said their issues aren't severe enough for helmet therapy...WOOT!!!

Now onto the Public Garden.  We started this tradition last year with Eli & the babies.  They don't remember much as they were still in utero at the time.

I was a little bummed this year that the tulips hadn't bloomed yet...boo to cold weather!!!  I loved them so much last year.  I think I took more pictures of them than of Eli.

Oh, well.  Maybe next year, right?  The line was a bit long, but we made it.  The babies were pretty well behaved.  There were a few occasions were Eli almost swam with the duckies though.

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Because we had a single and a double stroller, nobody even noticed they were triplets.  They only thought we had twins.  Good trick!

We're on the boat!
Renee & Ben
Eli
Allie & Nate
Dave & Sam
See why we needed an extra lap???  No siderails or anything!!!

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I think we need to get the babies some shoes.  They did not want to keep their socks on. We had a near miss on the swan boat.  Oy!  I've been procrastinating the shoe purchase because it's going to be expensive and I just can't do it!  I think I may have to cave and take care of it soon...

Here's Eli's picture with the "Make Way for Ducklings" duckies last year.

Here's everybody this year...

Nate & Sam
Ben
Eli

 Then we were hungry & I had a hankering for PF Changs...so we did it!!!  The manager was very accommodating and even said he used to babysit his friends' identical quads.  We told him he was welcome at our house whenever (as long as he brought us some Lettuce Wraps too). 

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Overall, we had a great day & I can't believe we survived our first trip to Boston (not in the NICU!!!).  Can't wait to do it again next year!!!