At Asher's insistence, we have just listened to "Row, Row, Row, Your Boat" 21 times. Thankfully (sorta), I figured out after the third time that I could program it to auto-repeat.

Aside from that little blip, our weekend has been spectacular. Today, we did the Kaufman family thing, and Asher got to mingle with Noam, Daniel, Jonathan, Yishai and Sammy – all boys under the age of five. Crayons were stuffed in noses, duals were fought – and lost – with rocking horses, and lots of (kosher) pizza was consumed.

Speaking of pizza, we finally found a restaurant where we could take Asher for dinner that didn’t leave Sarah and I the equivalent of ten years worse for wear after chasing, cajoling and cleaning continuously for the duration of the meal – Two Boots Pizza in Park Slope. Two Boots is a “family friendly” (non-kosher) pizza etc. establishment with crayons for kids, and a wide open window into the kitchen where everyone who so desires can climb up a few steps to watch the people make the food. On a whim, we went there last night with Amy, Dan, and their two-year-old son Oliver. It was the most relaxing meal I’ve had in weeks.