Quick trip to PA

Andrew and I just returned from a week long visit to Pennsylvania. AP had lots of fun playing with his cousins (dancing, having tea parties, reading), following PopPop everywhere he went, snuggling with MumMum, and chasing Jack-dog around the house. He also got a huge kick out of wearing the leis PopPop and MumMum got on their recent trip to Hawaii. Thank you everyone for a truly nice time. We benefited greatly from the change of scenery!

Side note: Andrew was a real trooper in the car. Now that he doesn't sleep 5-6 hours out of the 7 hour drive...I was a little worried how it would go. He did great! Looked at his books, pointed out all of any cars or trucks that drove by, and sang with Mommy. Even in a one hour back up delay on the way home he maintained supreme composure. I'm a lucky Mommy! Thank goodness for small miracles.

Reading with PopPop...


Hawaiian Mr. T...


Getting tickled by MumMum (with Patrick)...


Working in PopPop's garden with Connor...


Molly teaching the finer points of baseball to AP...


Mother's Day with his Godmother, Amy...


Snuggling...


Reading the Sunday paper...

1st Haircut

Andrew's first REAL haircut. He's had trims by me and a trim by a strange guy at an empty hair salon...but, this was the first time he sat on his own in a barber shop chair and got a complete haircut. He did great. He did not enjoy being sprayed with the water bottle but, he did like seeing himself in the mirror, looking at and talking about the cars on his cape and playing with a hair clip. Here are before and after photos. I hardly recognize him! Although, I'm glimpsing the little boy he's becoming. If you thought he looked like an Osler before...what do you think now?

April

We've recently changed computers so, I don't have access to all of my photos. But here are few good ones from April. Grandmom and Pop Pop's visit in the beginning of April, swimming lessons, a turkey fry with Mark's Uncle George Osler and more.

Lunch at Popponesset Beach




Love...


Little footprints...little shadow


New hat from Aunt Amy...
looking like a bruiser from South Boston in this photo


Swimming lessons


Learning to spin the lane rope




Hello Pop Pop...good, good...bye!


checking his stocks on Oma & Opa's computer


THE TURKEY FRY:

The anticipation building....


Uncle George lowering the first turkey
(incidentally, he got the idea to put a funnel on his head from Andrew)


Coloring with Daddy...

Welcome!

Thanks for coming to check out the new blog. As you can see, I was able to transfer all previous posts and links over to this site. This made me very happy! I will be updating soon with some pictures from April to include Andrew's first swim lesson!