Toddlers hit the Old Homestead

Last Friday we visited the Lefferts Historic House with Maple and Henry and I left wondering one thing - why did we wait so long to get there? It's an 18th-century Dutch homestead in Prospect Park that has period rooms, all sorts of historic replica artifacts, and a big garden out front with (a highlight among all the other stuff) a patch of dirt for digging in. It's all done in this lovely, unfussy manner where they seem not to mind one bit that a small pack of toddlers is roaming around rearranging everything and trying to eat the historic replica checkers like Oreos. Left to right: Miss Ponytails, coy Maple, and adorable Henry.

Maple and Rosie enacting Dutch genre scene: