Playground

We have reached the point now where Moo can play pretty much on her own. Not where I can just sit there but I dont have to chase her up down all around, think more like I can man the playground from the ground. Which is nice if I go with other moms as I can actually kinda talk to them. Here are the kids playing today as their cousins came over.






Then on the news front is we have a new dog, Murphy aka Murph. Our friend Daniela works with a dog rescue group. We mentioned a few weeks back that we were going to start to fill out paperwork to foster dogs. That night someone happened to have tagged her in a photo on Facebook of a black lab looking dog. She casually just said hey check him out. So I told Jacob who proceeded to call the number and get more information since he was in a kill shelter in Georgia. Daniela was able to work some magic and he got pulled from the shelter with us being the foster parents. He was transported here the day we left on vacation so Daniela covered him and gave us updates while we were away. We have had him since we got back. He has been a really well behaved dog and listens to Emmi. So we have decide we are going to keep him. Here is a picture although not the best so I will take more soon.

The best vacation place.....

Last year at this time we went to North Topsail and had the best time so we had to go again. This year we are down Kona but added Memere and Grandpy Harley to our trip.


The first day here there was a turtle nest in front of our place that had hatched the night before. The Turtle people came back to open the nest. Sure enough there were still 3 in there that were set free as well as many shells and eggs.


The girls have also loved flying kites.



Of course we dug holes and played in the sand.


The guys are into fishing. Grandpy Harley was the first one to catch a fish.


We have also seen our usual commercial fishing boat and dolphins in the water.

Eating Out

This is not something we seem to do very often. We much rather buy some really good quality food to make at home. However when we do eat out or get take out, one of our favorites is a Chinese/Sushi restaurant. So yummy. We decided to take the girls since Emmi has been asking if we can go out to eat. They did really well so I think we can make this happen more often. Not the best pics since taken from my phone.

First day of school

Today was the first official day of preschool for the girls. Jacob handles the drop off but called me as soon as it was done. Moo just walked right in like nobody's business. For Emmi it was old hat. When I picked up Moo, Ms Wiley told me that she was fearless, jumped right in to everything they did and was first for everything.

And so it begins....

Why not go for it all at once. We now have a ballet dancer, gymnast, and 2 school girls.

At our community center they have ballet classes for kids so Emmi said she would like to give it a go. Since it was a last minute decision I had already offered to watch my nephews which worked great since they entertained Moo during the class. Tyler took over a hundred pictures. Here are a few pics that made the cut.

Here is Emmi at her gymnastics class about to jump on a trampoline.

Then doing a flip.
Then here are the girls walking in to school since we had meet your teacher day. Mixed emotions with Moo walking in.

Here is Moo in her class where right now there are only 4 kids one of whom is Sawyer (Griffin's little brother). We are super excited about her teacher as she is the best 1 year old teacher. Emmi's class has 12 kids which include her best friend Brooke and of course Robert. Wednesday this coming week will be their first day.

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.