Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Marc and Casey's Wedding Weekend

We had a great time in Vermont for Marc and Casey's wedding. I ended up forgetting to pack my camera so our photos of the wedding are limited to what was taken on my mom and brother's camera. Nonetheless, there are some cute ones! Alice loved hanging out with her cousins and is excited for the next family wedding in August!


Hugging it out with Eva!

Alice and Isabel enjoyed holding hands for most of the night!

Saturday, July 16, 2011

Progress...

We'll we've made progress on our projects around the house. Reeves has done an amazing job laying the floor in the basement. We are actually nearing the home stretch with just the trim left to paint and install.

Alice has been very fun these days. She's very talkative and actually makes some sense some of the time! She goes in on Monday for a check up to make sure her leg is healing properly.
Alice loves play dough!

Hanging with Dad!

Playing 'row row row your boat' with her passengers Monkey and Mickey!

Checking out her new flower wall decals. We just have to install her window blinds and then she is ready for her new room. I'm not sure we are ready for this transition...we like sleeping...

Alice is really excited about the new floor in the basement. She'll be even more thrilled when all of her toys join her! We are also looking forward to moving LOTS of the toys downstairs!!

We are looking forward to heading to VT on Thursday for Casey and Marc's wedding! Alice is thrilled to hang with all of her cousins!

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Summer Antics...

We've been home a lot the last few weeks so we don't have a lot of exciting new pictures. Reeves just started a digital media course at Wesleyan so we've actually been taking a lot of pictures, but just not every exciting ones!! Alice has been doing well. She is getting a little more adventurous with her food tastes - she actually had a quesadilla with me the other night for dinner but passed on the stir fry meal we prepared last night. So baby steps...

We've hung out with our friend Cameron a bit the last few weeks. His parents have been waiting on the arrival of Cam's little sister - she was born last Thursday so it's been an exciting time for her little buddy.

This past weekend we had a great time in Marion, MA at Reeves' cousin Melissa's wedding. It was a gorgeous weekend and Alice got a chance to hang with her cousin's Lauren and Ryan. They had fun hanging out at the beach and then kept the babysitters busy while we enjoyed the festivities of the weekend! We are looking forward to our next cousin wedding weekend in VT!

Alice loves cooking things for us in her kitchen these days. Usually it's blocks in a frying pan...yummm...!
This is when I got back from being away for a few days at camp. It was the first time Alice was SUPER excited to see me after coming back from a trip.
Cameron and Alice hanging out!

We do get a little Alice attitude these days. I think we are discovering a bit of what the terrible twos are all about!

Alice has been helping me prepare dinners and LOVED helping make brownies. She did not have any problem taste testing the brownie spoon. She got to lick both hers and mine!! Apparently chocolate is on her list of likes.

Sunday, July 3, 2011

Strawberry Picking!

We had a great time strawberry picking in Harwinton, CT yesterday. It was a pretty low key setting - not a huge crowd which was nice. Alice preferred to run up and down the rows of berries so Reeves kept an eye on her while I did most of the picking. While it wasn't the easiest picking I've ever done - you had to really hunt around for a decent berry - we did end up with a pretty tasty tray of strawberries!


Now that Alice's cast is off the pool is back! She enjoyed stomping around in the pool yesterday and splashing mom and dad!

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Monday, June 27, 2011

Summer Fun

Hey everyone. Thanks for all your emails and calls about Alice. She is doing remarkably well with her cast. The only trouble is keeping her at a slow pace since she is desperate to run around and get her energy out. She is trying with her cast (and is actually very efficient getting around on it) but she gets very frustrated with the little boot and shoe that she has to keep on constantly. We are all very happy this cast only lasts a week!

We had a good weekend. Reeves has been incredible getting projects started (and finished!) around the house. Alice's new room is pretty much ready for her to move into! She seems to really like it, so we are hopeful it's a smooth transition. We are just waiting for the cast to come off before we make the move.

We've also begun our basement renovation - all the carpet is out, painting is nearly done, so all that is left is the floor. We're hoping to make some good progress in the next week before Reeves starts his summer course.

We had some helpful hands on deck this weekend, with Gogo and Grumma making the trip down to CT! Alice loved having the extra attention and we were very appreciative to have the extra hands helping us with our projects! As a bonus, she got her first ever haircut when out shopping with Grumma!