Monday, October 31, 2011

Back to School Tea.


One lazy day, towards the end of summer, Ella made several beautiful invitations for a tea party. So, we had to have it! She addressed each envelope to a few close friends, along with her return address, stamped them and put them in the mail. Ella LOVES to be the hostess!
(That's why she's in hardly any of the pictures I took that day! ;)




















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Thursday, October 13, 2011

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Feed The Birds.


This summer, Grandma Sue took the girls to see The Zookeeper, which was filmed at the Franklin Park Zoo, in Boston. We just had to go, since we were so close. At the Franklin Park Zoo, they have a Bird Aviary. With all the bird feed that we bought, it should have been Ella's Bird Aviary.
She spent her allowance, to feed the birds.
Ella doesn't just connect with anything, but with the birds, she did.





Those birds above, were fighting. That's when Pais got a little turned off.
Ella would get a bit nervous when they fought too.



We had a good time together. It's the perfect size zoo!


Then things starting getting crazy...



Paisley was okay with a little distance.







Tuesday, October 11, 2011

No tents in CP!

One the last days of summer, we took an outing to Central Park with our new tent. It is open in the front and we originally got it so that when we go to the beach in the summer, Scotty won't get burnt. :) It only took 15 minutes in the tent, in CP for a ranger to inform us that there are
"NO tents in CP!" The girls made their own mini one out of sticks and leaves...again.

That's okay, the girls did some rock climbing, we all did some football tossing...

...they also ate left over Chipotle Chips and watched their new favorite TV show,
The Amazing World of Gumball. Check it out if you haven't heard of it. Complete. Silliness.

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Monday, October 10, 2011




I remember needing this, the day that I read it at IKEA, a few months ago.
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The Nautilus and Plymouth Rock





















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Sunday, October 9, 2011

"Hurricane, it's the word on the street..."

...Is what Paisley said during breakfast the morning before it hit. The night before, the girls went to sleep with their goggles on, just in case the water flooded to the 10th floor.

I'm sure you heard...that Hurricane Irene was uneventful, from where we were at least.

Here's what our 24 hours looked like in our hood.

Approximately 45 minutes before the rain hit.
Went to Dunkin' Donuts for our second to last meal.
Head to Riverside Park to get some last minute play at Hippo.
Started Pouring.
Ran home.
Still don't regret it.

The garbage cans were all ready!





Then we got antsy during a rain break and went to The Graham's for our last supper. It was delish. We're getting really good at collaborating meals. :) Everyone played Rock Band, until we decided it was time to run home in the rain, again. Still don't regret it.
Approximately 45 Minutes after the rain stopped, the next morning.
Headed to Riverside Park.

Hot and Crusty was all boarded up!

Girls played under a tree until mother had intuition and said to move away from trees.
Branch fell right after I said it.
Girls screamed.
Thank heavens.



If we learned one thing from Irene, it was that Paisley has a hole in her rain boot. Oh, and that our window leaks when there is sideways rain.

The chicas were POSITIVE that these seashells that they found in the park, were ones that had blown up from the Hudson River, in a wave, during the hurricane. Thank heavens again, they were a bit disappointed there weren't new species of sea life hangin' out on the shore after. This had to do!

Soldiers and Saints Memorial

And this is when Paisley said, "That's a BIG tree, for a little storm!"



And just for the time capsule...
I had to go to three stores to find "D" batteries. It may have been because I was asking for "Double D Batteries" Whoops! That's a bra size, not a battery size. ;) Finally found 'em!

The bread shelves in the grocery stores ='d empty! That was the scariest, panic stricken moment for me. Going to buy our food for at least the next 10 days and it being completely gone.

Thankful for our safety. A little excitement is always fun though.

Saturday, October 1, 2011

Water Slide.

On our way home, we stopped by 6 Flags New England, cause Ella's turned into quite the roller-coaster girl. She wasn't tall enough to go on the REALLY big rides. :( She was sad, but we had all kinds of fun in the water park and theme park. She and mommy were roller-coaster buddies!

Ella gave this salute to Scott right as she headed down a big water slide...

...Here's the video...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTmaqmnRrxo


Paisley and Daddy lounged around, with fruity drinks and took an occasional dip.