A little Adeline

Addy is a girly girl and I love it.
She loves fancy shoes, tights, sparkles, and hair bows.

But she's a girly girl who LOVES to get dirty.
Her favorite thing to do is run through the mud puddle in our driveway.
She gets filthy but is so happy.

Excuse the food smeared on her face and focus on her expressive eyebrows, big blue eyes and cute piggies. She tolerates me combing her hair and sometimes we get the pigtails in before she runs away.

Jack

Jack made this representation of himself at preschool. He was excited to show us his face when we went to the preschool open house. His face had the most blonde hair. It was hard to get a direct picture of his "face" as he wanted to be looking at it and not showing it to me.

These are Jack's friends. He would find a small worm and call it friend and then find that friend's mommy. So fun to listen to him talk to his friends.

He loves worms and loves to help me in the dirt. We planted 80 daffodil and tulip bulbs on Saturday and he was lucky to find many friends.

Walk along the Erie Canal

We live just a few blocks from the Erie Canal and the Canal Trail is a favorite of mine for running or taking a walk with the kids. A few Sundays ago, we had a sunny blue sky so we went to see what we could see.

The kids watched ducks swim under the bridge and spent some time looking at

the tug boats. They were both so excited to see the boats and run over the bridge.

This picture makes me happy.

On our way home we passed the construction equipment on the street over from us. They are getting their water mains fixed and it has been fun to watch the crews work. Jack and Addy loved being able to sit in the scoop.

Random sharing for a Saturday

This is too funny not to share. I promise this is an actual quote.


"Hey, congratulations Amy. You have a black girl booty. Looks good."



My visiting teaching companion said this to me yesterday. And apparently she is an expert because a) she is black and b) she likes her big booty.


I am taking this as a compliment :)

Fall in New York

means picking apples.

(Excuse my closed eyes but it is the only picture of the 4 of us in front of the trees)


This is one of my favorite Rochester traditions and as this may be our last fall in Rochester, I wanted to really savor the experience. There is nothing quite like picking apples in NY.

I am pretty sure that Addy and Jack each ate 4 apples.
They loved picking them and choosing which one to eat.

This was supposed to be a picture of Addy picking her first apple but Jack was so excited to show his own apple that it kept showing up in the pictures. We have some enthusiastic apple pickers at our house.

I love these pictures of Addy in the pumpkin patch.
In the first picture she is striking the pose she makes when she is checking something out. Once she decided it was okay, she reached down to touch the pumpkin with one finger. She then proceeded to walk around the patch and pet the pumpkins. So adorable.

For a special treat, Jack got to ride a pony.

Trip To NYC

I spent a short weekend in NYC with my sister, Ann, and some friends running in this.

See pictures here and here and on Facebook.

Highlights were good conversation, fabulous food, getting some new purses
and my new favorite shoes.

Here's Addy modeling my new shoes and one of my new grown up purses.
(My shoe is the Tarin but I will soon also own the Daisy too)

She is lover of all things girly.

And for fun, here is a picture of her post sleep and pigtails with the volumizing product of strawberry yogurt. Nothing to do with NYC but I swear if I could find a peach 80's prom dress in her size she could be in the Footloose video that we watch daily to fulfill Jack's need to dance.

Where did they go?

To Maine to eat lots of lobster. Even lobster cookies.
Seriously, we (Ryan) ate lobster every day we were in Maine.

This was the view from the front window of our cabin. We were right on Atkins Bay near Popham Beach and watched the tides go in and out. Never did figure out the tide schedule but it was beautiful.

I want a screened in porch with a hammock.

Jack loved this plastic lobster that was on the porch. He slept with it and even showered with it. He spent 30 minutes in a shower by himself singing and soaping up this lobster.

One morning as he was waking up, I over heard this conversation that he had with the lobster.
Lobster: "I'm a spider."
Jack: "You're not a spider you're a lobster."
Lobster: "I am a lobster."

Jack did two different voices for this conversation and it still cracks me up.
Stairs down to the water from our cabin on the hill. Lots of rocks to climb on and sticks to throw. Plus lots of pine cones to pick up and put in our treasure bags. Jack spent Sunday morning walking up and down the hill to "check on the water."

Popham Beach at low tide. You can walk on the sand bar to the rocky island for a climb. The kids loved the beach even if they had to wear jackets and the water was freezing.

Addy was shivering before we had to pull her screaming from the surf. She loved letting the waves flow over her feet.

We stopped at the Ocenarium Lobster Hatchery before heading to Acadia National Park. Jack got to hold a sea star and
touch a lobster.
The highlight of Acadia National Park for Jack was this view of a cruise ship. He wanted to ride on it so badly. When we got close to it in Bar Harbor after dinner he asked to touch it. Acadia is gorgeous and we had a great sunny day to enjoy it.

Making Sand castles at Reid State Park. Addy is wearing the trademark 5 piece swimsuit which includes a swimsuit, pants, t-shirt, sweatshirt, and fleece jacket. Still a great day even though it was breezy and cold.
Addy was not afraid to get a little dirty.

York Beach on a beautiful sunny day. On our way home, we stopped in York to enjoy the sand on a warm day and to see this
This lighthouse is great and we spent our lunch hour viewing it. As my mom said, "That is what they call picturesque."


I spent most of the trip trying to convince Ryan to move to Portland, ME but he says I wouldn't like it as much in February. Maybe he is right, but I certainly love to visit in September.