Vacation

We had a great time on our trip up to Massachusetts have many posts to catch up. We got lots of quality time with Alana which of course had to include a haircut for Emmi and I. We also got feather extensions in our hair.

She came with us when we went to check out the seals.

Being silly on the trolley ride to go see the seals.
We also had Lobster one night. It was too late for the girls to partake but they did check them out before bed.

Then we also had a visit with Great Grammy & Grandpy while in Gardner, not the best picture since I took it with my phone.

The girls also stayed up late while having a blast running around and playing with their cousins.

Moo also loved playing with Uncle Joey's dinosaurs. She had her pick of blocks or dinos. Dinos won. She would roar when playing with them too, so cute.

Vacation cont.. Boston Childrens Museum

One thing about vacation is it really helps you realize how fortunate we are to live in such an awesome area. Our Discovery Place Kids Museum is so much better than Boston Childrens since ours is focused towards young kids while Bostons tries to have something for everyone but we still had fun. Our passes to DPKs got us in free to Boston so it only cost us parking. Then we went to Uncle Peeders for a dinner party with friends.
Moo playing with a water table.
Another one.
E in the Wizard of Oz exhibit.
Emmi playing with bubbles in the bubble room. I think this was the best part.
They had a huge climbing structure that Emmi went in.

Vacation cont.. beach

Of course we spent plenty of time at the beach.





Naptime, although this only happened once.

Vacation cont..... lighthouse & ice cream

One thing Emmi really wanted to do while visiting Memere is go see a light house. Unfortunately she isn't old enough to go inside the lighthouse since you have to be 6. So we went on a random day to check it out.





We also went out for ice cream one day while there. I usually like to go daily but since my favorite shop is a bit of a drive we only managed one trip.

Moo's 18 month check up

Moo went to the doctors for her 18 month check up. She weighed in at 23lbs and 31 inches tall. She is on the lower percentages of 25% but has always been in that tract. Basically all that means to me is she is probably going to be more on the shorter side.

In other news she is finally sleeping through the night more times than not. A few weeks before vacation I decided it was time to night wean since getting up 2 or more times in a night was not cutting it. She did really well with it with virtually no tears. But then when we went on vacation we went with the flow a bit since sleeping arrangements weren't always ideal to make it happen. It is amazing at how awesome one can feel with a solid 8+ hours of sleep.

Here she is again playing with more boyish toys. I think she is going to be our tomboy since she gravitates towards dinos, cars, trucks, etc when playing.

Crayola Factory

It was a perfect place for a half way resting place. I definitely was psyched up for something much bigger and better thinking like Willy Wonka type place but I guess in the grand scheme of things it was exactly what one could expect. Tons are areas set up with their different Crayola products that you could color, create, and/or make. Here were a few pics I captured with my phone:Playing in the under 5 area.
The crayon area.
Crappy picture of everyone coloring. They had huge bins of every color of unbroken crayons.
Clear walls to write on.

Coloring & Family photos

Most afternoons in our house it looks like a Crayola bomb went off. With crayons and markers everywhere. Here is a picture of the girls coloring together.

Then just a random together shot with their puddles(the yellow ducks in the picture).

Then the weekend before Kona's health declined our friend Jo came over to take a family shots. Here are a couple with our precious boy.

We are slowly adjusting to life without our boy. Little things like not having him to pick up after the girls meals, to not having him check on us through the day, or the fur balls when sweeping the floors, to just knowing he was here to protect us, to just seeing his cute face, to the daily walks, to just hanging with us, to him greeting us when we get home, are all definitely missed dearly. Emmi still will mention him randomly with cute things like she will say "we should get a new yellow dog so you and Daddy wont be sad anymore" to "I am going to draw a picture of Bubba". Thanks to everyone who reached out to check on us one way or another. But we are all doing pretty well adjusting to the new life.