Fun, Fun, Fun

So I have been really bad at updating this lately, Sorry. So, I'll give you a Brief over view overview of what we have been up to these last few weeks.
The weekend of the 12-14 we stayed home and did much needed house work and basement work. Sunday our Friend's Kate and her Daughter Julie came over to play. It was great to see them again. The girl had a blast playing with all Ali's toys and books. Although I didn't get any pictures of that play date here are some pictures from our weekend.

Waiting for her buddy Julie to arrive
Look at those curls

family picture

a big smile with her favorite hat.

The weekend of the 19-21 we stayed home Saturday and Waterproofed the deck. Yipee. and then headed to the Cumberland Fair on Sunday morning. Where we ran into the Plummer's and Sarah's Mom and Sister. It was nice to see them again. We miss seeing them like we used too. This summer has been so busy for both of us and we haven't been able to get together much. Hopefully we'll be able to see them more this fall. The girls had a great time together like always. Alison liked seeing all the animals but wanted nothing to do with touching them. And she really loved a stop at the Maple Sugar shack displace where we go Ice cream with Maple syrup on top. She doesn't get treats like this very often, so when she does it's a really big treat. She was making me and Eddie laugh so hard, cause after every bite she would say mmmm... and she was doing it a way that I don't even think she knew she was doing it. It was soooo funny. After seeing all the Animals and ice cream we headed back home for Nap and for an evening of watching the last ever game at Yankee's Stadium with Eddie's parents. Here are some pictures of our weekend.

Alison enjoying her apple

Alison and her hand picked outfit. Notice her favorite hat and rain boot even though it wasn't raining
weeee...
Look no hands
Eddie and the baby goats at the fair. They were trying to eat his shoe laces and shorts. Alison thought this was super funny.

She loved the bunnies

mommy and Ali looking at the sheep

feeding the goats was a big hit

a dance with Aunt Sarah and Payson

This past weekend the 26-28 Eddie and I had our first date night in 2 years to celebrate our 5 year anniversary, yeah that's right, it was our first real date night, other than attending weddings. It was great! We got tickets to STOMP, which was awesome. We loved it. After that we headed to dinner and then to a bar. It was really nice to be just the two of us. As for Alison she contracted Hand Foot and Mouth the week before from Daycare so she was feeling pretty junky all week but by the weekend she was feeling a lot better and Saturday night finally slept through the night for the first time in over a week. But she is all better now and is back at daycare today. The whole weekend was pretty rainy here due to Huricane Kyle and since Alison was still contagious to little ones we stayed home Sunday and did arts and crafts, dress-up and went for a rainy walk (all big time favorites right know). Here are some pictures of the weekend.

Super happy to be outside!

A walk in the rain (more like a sprinkle)

A favorite way to get around these days

Mommy and Ali.

Dress-up time for Alsion...

and for us too.

Play-doe in style

Great Time with Great Friends!

This past weekend we headed back to NY, to the Rochester area for the wedding of Eddie's good friend Brian (better known as Lewis) from college. We ended up staying with Eddie's other friend Scott and his fiance Meg, who Eddie knows from High School and College. They graduated from High School together in VT and headed to Alfred State College together and where roommates there for 2.5 years. It was really great to see him again. I haven't seen him since he was in our wedding almost 5 years ago. And it was really great to meet his fiance Meg. When we got there Friday we just hung out with Scott and Meg for a while and then headed to PenYann for the Rehearsal/Out-of-Town guest dinner, which was at Ashley's (Lewis's now wife) parents camp. Here we got to see a bunch of old friends some of which I haven't seen in 9 Years or more. I was also finally able to meet the wife's and children of a bunch of them. And they where able to finally meet Alison too. Saturday Anna arrived and spent the day with us before the wedding, she came over to babysit Alison while we were at the wedding. It was a really fun day. We went to the Strong National Museum of Play and had an absolute blast, I can't wait to take Alison again when we make one of our trips back to Buffalo. She had so much fun. The place is huge though so we didn't even get to see half of it. After the museum we headed back to Scott and Meg's house to get ready for the wedding. The reception was great and was really neat to see everyone again. You know you have great friends when you see them after 9 years and it feels like you you saw them yesterday. It was really hard to come to back Maine Sunday that's for sure. But all in all it was a great weekend, lots of driving (17 hours) but well worth it to see all of those guys. Here are some pictures of the weekend.

Alison REALLY excited to go to the Museum

Alison Loved the "Big fisses"

Playing some music that creates a light show on the ceiling. (really neat)

First of many art stations. Here she is making a design to look at with a really big calidascope.

Funny Mirror. I love these.

These things where pretty fun, Alison would of stayed at this table for hours if we let her.

What a cute square.

Playing some more music on some pipes.

piano lessons with Aunt Anna. She really loves playing music.

Ali and Aunt Anna

Scott and Meg's cat Susie. She was sleeping with her head pressed into the pillow.
It was the funniest thing, but I guess she sleeps like this all the time.

Lewis and Ashley

Congratulations you two!

The Alfred Guys (Eddie, Brian (Lewis), Scott, Chris (Wager))

First trip to the dentist

This is a little out of order but I forgot to put this in. Alison went to her first dentist appointment on the 18th. The place was amazing. They were so good with her and she had a lot of fun. We took her to Southern Maine Pediatric Dentistry and I would highly recommend them to anyone. She is now in the no cavity club and you can see here photo by clicking here. The hygentist was great she made each tool into a special character and let Alison touch it and examine it, she was able to do a full cleaning, floss, and floride treatment. I was amazed considering it's was a fight every morning and every night to let me brush her teeth. Since the visit however it has gotten a lot easier, and I can even floss her teeth. Here is a cute picture of her after she got her new toothbrush and fancy new sunglasses. She did a great job, I was really proud of her.

Labor Day Weekend Fun

Ok I'm Sorry I'm a little behind. I'll try to catch up.
Let's start with Labor Day weekend we had a great time visiting with Jimmie and Jamie (Eddie's brother and his Girlfriend) on Friday evening and Saturday. Friday we hung out at the campground with Eddie's parents and Jamie Alison and I went to the Ice Cream Social, that Eddie's Mom runs at the park, Yummy! Saturday we headed into the Old Port for some lunch and shopping. After that we headed back to the campground for some dinner and then back to our house saturday night. Jimmie and Jamie stayed with us Sat. night which Alison loved. She had lots of fun jumping on the bed with Aunt Jamie. It's really funny though, Alison loves Jamie but is super shy around Jimmie, the week before they came she had been talking about how Uncle Jimmie was coming and how she wanted to go "bluebaby and strawbaby picking with unca Jimmie" but when she actually gets to see him she won't even go near him it's really funny. Anyways it was a great visit and we hope to see them again next month at Alsion's Birthday Party. Here are some pictures of their visit.

Alison having a blast jumping on the bed.

Cute picture of Jamie and Alison

Jamie, Alison and Jimmie

Jamie and Alison saw the flowers outside the window so Alison insisted they go "mel em" she loves smelling flowers these day which make for some really cute pictures.

After Jimmie and Jamie left on Sunday, we spent the rest of the day just cleaning straightening and working and on Monday headed over to the Plummer's house for a bike ride and a cookout. Eddie pulled Alison and Payson in our bike trailer, it was Payson's first time in the trailer and it started off great they loved it, but when we stopped to turn around, Payson was getting a little fussy so Sarah got her out to hold her for a minute and when it was time to get her back in the trailer to head back she did not want to get in. So the ride back was filled with lots of screaming. Payson was screaming because she wanted out and Alison was screaming because Payson was. Lucky it wasn't a very long bike ride. After the ride we headed back to the Plummer's for some lunch and the girls' naps. After Naps we headed back out side for some more play time. Here are some pictures of our day at the Plummer's.

The girls getting ready for their ride

All ready to go.

Alison had to get a quick drink after all that screaming

The girls on the slide, it's so funny. It seems like yesterday that this slide was big for them and now they consider this a small slide.

Payson on the "small slide"

Chalk fun. Alison loves playing with sidewalk chalk.

Her favorite thing to do with the chalk is trace everyone's feet. It's really cute.


Here are some other pictures from the weekend
Mommy and Ali after bathtime.


bedtime story with daddy. I love this picture.

Alison's nightly ritual with Daddy. Daddy lays down and Alison comes running over and jumps on his belly and gives him a big hug. It's really cute now but we'll see how cute it is when she gets bigger.

Dress up with daddy.