Life Update

Realized I haven't posted in a couple of weeks. Things are OK. Liam is doing really great in school. He has a crush on a little girl in his class. It's so adorable, and I had no idea it started this young!

Rowan is doing great! She has been a lot better about sleeping again. One night she just wanted to be snuggled and rocked, and I totally loved it. It seems she is growing out of that stage where all they want to do is explore, and she is starting to snuggle and hang out more. She loves to give hugs and kisses too...just so cute! I will be updating more about the kids soon on their site...

2 weeks ago I had a dentist appointment, and he recommended that I get a gum graft for a couple of my teeth. Turns out I need it for 3!! On both sides of my mouth too....so not looking forward to it. But hopefully it will help get rid of my sensitivity when I have hot or cold drinks and food. Plus maybe I will lose the rest of my baby weight, that will be nice!

It's that time of year that the yard starts giving us food. We have managed to get some tomatoes and squash from the garden after-all. AND all four of our fruit trees produced this year! Even the the little peach tree we planted in the spring gave us a bunch! It's been really nice! Mike spent the day yesterday canning pears. I feel bad I wasn't able to help, but I had to watch Rowan since she is only down to one nap now! Thankfully, we canned so many peaches last year, we have enough for the next year. Anyway, not a whole lot else going on...just got to figure a costume for Rowan...Liam made it easy for me this year by telling me he wants to be a skeleton :)

In Memoriam

Some of you may know that I grew up back East, in New Hampshire. Sadly my family did not go on many trips...but, thankfully my dad had a younger brother that moved to NYC and he came to visit our family often, and he would pretty much force my mom and dad to do some family trips. I remember a trip to Montreal, Canada, and we also went to visit him in NYC. I have very fond memories of our time together with Uncle Krayton. Here are some pictures I have of our trip to NYC...My first and only trip there. I took the pictures of the close up ones of the twin towers. I was around 12 or 13 years old. And the year was probably 1987 or 1988. I have been meaning to share these for a long time, and I figured the 10 year anniversary of 9-11 would be appropriate.

Lady Liberty


Uncle Krayton

Labor Day Party/Weekend

So, Mike and I have been wanting to have a family party at our house all summer. We have had one for the past 2 years since moving to our new house, usually around July 4th, but the stars just didn't align this year. So we decided we should have it for Labor day weekend, the last real chance to have an outdoor event before it gets too cold and dark in the evening. Mike got a new smoker this summer, and decided to do something different than our usual sausages. He got a some pork, and decided to do pulled pork sandwiches. And since I don't eat any meat except for fish, he was such a wonderful hubby and got some salmon and smoked that too!

There were some technical difficulties along the way regarding a new part he got for his smoker that was supposed to help control the temperature, but it ended up defective. So many times that day he wasn't sure if the meat was going to turn out. But 12+ hrs later it was finally done!! And it seemed that everyone enjoyed it! Everyone brought some great sides too, thanks to all of you!! The kids had a blast playing on the swing-set and the bounce house. Thank you so much Erica for taking pictures and sharing them with us. It's very hard to get a second to do that when you are hosting and keeping an eye on the kids!!

We had spent 3 days preparing and cleaning up for the party, that we were very glad to have Monday off as a holiday. And it was a really good thing too since Rowan was not being herself, and kept waking up all through the night. She didn't sleep more than an hour combined probably. I spent the night up with her, and she decided she wanted to play!! Such an odd behavior for her since she is usually such a great sleeper. She didn't have a fever, but maybe she was teething, or maybe she had a tummy upset from all the sweets?! I'm not sure, but am very grateful that she slept through the next night, since we all have work and school.




















Rowan playing at 4:30 am

Stuff

Something strange happened when Mike uploaded some pics of Rowan tonight. When he opened the windows view finder to edit a few pictures, they completely disappeared. He searched the entire computer, including the trash, they are NO WHERE. Thankfully he had the pictures opened in a different edit program, and was able to copy the pictures. We were pretty upset, especially since they were super cute pictures of Rowan. Here is one of them.


I got to Liam's school a little early to pick him up. His teacher was reading to the kids, so I waited a little bit, and got this cute picture...

'Spying on Liam'

Liam's First Day of Preschool

Liam had his first day of preschool today. We are trying the morning schedule this year. We thought maybe if he wasn't as tired, he might get a little more out of the experience. So far I do like the morning time since we can get it done, and then I have the rest of the day to make up my time at work. The only issue so far, is trying to get him to eat something before he's dropped off. He is just like his dad, in that he doesn't like to eat anything when he wakes up. I just don't want him getting too hungry while he's at school. Hopefully we can figure out something out!

Anyway below are a few pictures I got of his first day. I like to get one outside the door, but as you can see it's pretty bright out!! If you want to compare his picture from his first day last year, check this link.

I think he had a pretty good day. It was kinda funny when I went to pick him up, I didn't see him in the room, but they do rotate the kids, so I wasn't too worried. The teacher said he was in the bathroom. One of the girls opened the door to the bathroom which is in the classroom. He was standing with his pants down, trying to get some soap out of the pump. I stepped into the bathroom to assist him, and the girl kept opening and shutting the door!! I quickly put his pants up...it's a good thing he's too young to be embarrassed by that.

He told G'ma that he thought his teacher was really really pretty, and that the girls in his class were cute. So, I would say his first day at school was a success!

Up late working on pictures again...

Well it is almost 1am, and I'm working on pictures again. I'm caught up on all the pictures that have been uploaded to the computer so far. And I wanted to share a really cute picture of Liam this time. BTW, you can see all our pictures on our smugmug site.

Mommy Brag

So sorry, this is my 'brag' today, instead of my blog...we went to meet Liam's teacher today. We thought we were going to have Miss Erin, but when we got there we double checked with the front desk, and I guess Miss Erin decided to leave at the last minute because her husband got his dream job and they had to move. So anyway, his new teacher is 'Miss Raya'. She is really nice and pretty, and I think he will love her. After we met her, we went to visit his teacher from last year, and she was talking to another family, so we went on to another room. We were going to go back, but she left her room to come say 'Hi' to us and to Liam. She loves him so much, and we found out the reason he does not have her this year. She took a 2nd job at her church as a director of child development (or something like that) and so she is only teaching one class this year, and it is the tater tot class (4-5 yr olds). She said that she would keep an eye on Liam though since they will be there at the same time. We asked if she would be here next year, and she said she would never leave there, so maybe he will get her next year, or maybe Rowan will? We also asked her about next year, and if she thought 2 or 3 days would be better for him. Since Rowan will be going too, we wanted to send them at the same time. She said that Liam is so smart, that he would be fine with either schedule. Anyway, it seems Liam is a very popular kid with all the teachers because they all seemed very happy to see him, which we are very grateful for. I can't believe that school starts next week?! It seems we just had his graduation, but I think he will very much enjoy being back to school....I'm just crossing my fingers and toes, we can stay healthier than we were last year!!