Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Irene

Hurricane Irene came our way this past weekend.  We had a nice rainy day before the winds kicked in and hosted brunch for my folks & sisters family (ie John found a tray of PW's cinnamon rolls in the freezer - yum!).

Maeve tries on the new hat I made her, I think it will work!


Martin tried the jump-a-roo for the first time, Maeve looked on a bit concerned.


This 'little' guy cracks me up (I say little because he tops the size charts for his age).  He hung out in the jump-a-roo, not exactly taking advantage of the jumping feature.  At least not yet.

Thanks to the rainy day, and some help and prodding from Emily, I rearranged a bunch of M's stuff.  We are using the pack and play more like a play pen these days, rather than a changing table and I brought her actual changing table and bureau downstairs.  The end goal is to make putting away laundry a bit more likely (I mean who doesn't just use the guest bed as the 'dresser' for weeks on end!).

Got all the whole family this time around

Gramp & Mars

Maeve is doing so well eating these days.  All of a sudden she has gone from sampling, to polishing off a half a cup of food! 

And eventually, we lost power - though only for a few hours.  Luckily we had enough candlelight power!

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

standing!

Maeve is now standing up in her crib! Oh, and she signed for milk!!!

Friday, August 26, 2011

Maeve and Mom

Emily snapped a few pics of M and I as we headed to check out the gardens.  Thanks Em!




3 parkers

Martin was taking a nap when Em, Liz & I went to visit Ryan in the garden.


I love, love. love this photo!

Quite the carrot!



I instructed Liz to touch heads with mom (meaning to put her head together with Emily).  She took my literately and brought her hand to hear own head (touching heads!)


Grapes!

Beautiful garlic

around the house

A project I have been wanting to do for awhile - succulents (my fav) in an old pie plate with a candle in the middle.  I am hoping the succulents fill in and that it will be a pretty centerpiece.

A type of honeysuckle on a trellis off our back deck.

Affectionately called the 'stump garden' because it was a hole with stumps in it in our front yard.  Over the last few weeks, John has filled it in, seeded and watered it and brought me some large rocks for landscaping.  We had saved a tree in the upper right, which came down earlier this week (randomly) so now we have a festivius pole of sorts:).  Looking forward to placing the rocks about and putting in some flowers!

Peppers
 This plant lived the winter in our basement and is blooming for the second time this summer.

Maeve sleeps.....

future race car driver?

Maeve's first driving lesson - I would say she loves it!




 Having SO much fun!

skowhegan state fair

We snuck away for an afternoon to take Maeve to the skowhegan state fair.  We had a nice afternoon checking out the animals, equipment and food!

This picture is for Gramp. 

 Checking our the baby goats
 It was a hot day!  pink cheeks!