Labor Day Weekend: Upstate NY

Labor Day weekend we went to the cabin in upstate NY with Tom's dad and uncle. It was really nice to enjoy the outdoors and rest together from our busy life. Caroline had fun with her Pappou...and "another one Pappou". Tom's dad is her Pappou, but his Uncle kept telling Caroline he was Pappou too so she kept saying "it's another one Pappou". It was very cute. I love all the fun things she says! I took a loot of pictures and a couple videos, so enjoy!

Pappou #1 and AJ...and Barbie

It's so hard to get her to stay still for a picture!








Sitting on the 4-Wheeler...no, we didn't let her ride it!






The beautiful cabin Toms uncle built


Gosh, he is so handsome!








Washing potato's with daddy

"Mom! Stop taking pictures of me!!"

We made brick oven pizza one night...

We went to the park one day...



Caroline wanted to give Pappou a flower...








Caroline telling me she did it all by herself....and saying Pappou

I was a little nervous that he was swinging ( I thought he might throw himself forward)...but he seemed to have fun!

Hurricane Irene and Kim's Visit

Well, we lived through an earthquake and a hurricane all in a week. Haha...the earthquake, which was in Virginia, was really small here...but we felt it...and it scared me. The girls were sleeping and I was laying with AJ on the couch. All of the sudden I felt a little dizzy...then I realized AJ's toys were shaking and the pictures on the walls were too. I quickly logged on to facebook to see if friends here had also felt it...they had, so I decided I wasn't crazy. It took about 5 minutes before it was on the news. It was really just a small tremor here, but it was my first earthquake and I got really scared because I wasn't sure if it would get bigger or not. Luckily it stopped before I could panic too much.
The worst of the hurricane happened in the middle of the night here. I got up to feed AJ a couple times in the night and listened to the wind blow and hit things against the door. They really built it up on the news so I wasn't sure what was happening outside of our house. When we got up in the morning we looked around our house...a shutter blew off the house and a branch fell down by the street. We lost power for all of Sunday and had it back by 9:30 that night. We were the lucky ones because a lot of people were out for much longer and a lot of people had trees damage their homes and flooding.
Kim, Tyler and Jarian were visiting the weekend of the hurricane. I only got one picture :( The power went out at their hotel for a while. But, at least we were all safe. We weren't able to do anything really fun. We had plans to go to the city zoo...but everything was closed Saturday in prep for the hurricane...Sunday was the hurricane, and Monday was cleanup and power out everywhere. We were able to go to a seafood restaurant Monday night on the water. That was fun. Tuesday they headed back to NM.

My adorable nephew Jarian


I stole these pictures from my friend Ambre. Thanks Ambre! She took pictures of some of the damage around Long Island.

Another Caroline Update

Last post for tonight, it's late...hopefully I will have more tomorrow! By the way, there are videos in all these posts so you will have to go to my blog to see them! Do it, because they are cute!
I took Caroline to the Dr the other day for her 2 year checkup. She did very well considering she had to get shots...that seemed to hurt her feelings a little. She is now 25.3 lbs, and 33 1/2 inches tall, head 18 1/4....25th percentile. She is so awesome. I have so much fun with her every day. She is talking up a storm! AND she is finally potty trained! She goes by herself all day long. I'm not sure what will happen when we go out since we've only really been at home, but at home she is doing great! I took her to her first ballet/tap class today...she had a hard time at first because she had to go potty, but I guess she was confused about what to do since there was no potty lying around. After a while she finally went to the door and looked at me saying "uh-oh". She thought she was going to pee her pants, poor girl...but I had put a pull up on her! She was very happy that she didn't get wet and started participating a little better.

She was being quiet one day and this is what I found her doing...changing Barbies diaper, haha
Cheese! She likes to hide in here!
She stole AJ's overalls and put them on, haha.
I told her to say cheese and this is what I got!

Johnny Rockets!

AJ - 3 Months

Ok, so AJ is actually 4 months old now, but I don't want to skip the 3 month update. At 3 months AJ was 13 lbs 8 oz, and 23 3/4 inches long, head is 16 1/8 inch. He was in the 50th percentile for both height and weight. He is as healthy as can be! He is such a smiley happy baby. All you have to do is look at him and say something and he will smile :) The day he turned 3 months old he rolled over from belly to back for the first time. He is also starting to teeth! I love him so much, he has been such a great baby. LOVE this picture...they are actually BOTH looking at the camera! LOVE this too! Smiley 3 month old!

Laughing with Yaya!



Rolling over



At 3 months he would put himself to sleep by swinging and looking up, lol. He's just so cute!

Carolines 2nd Birthday Party ~ Elmo Style

Alright! Time for some much needed updates on the kids and our little family! First up on my list of endless posts to update this blog is Carolines 2nd birthday! I can't believe my baby girl is 2! Here are a bunch of pictures from her Elmo birthday party! Well, actually she had 2...so from her 2 parties. Funny story...she went with me a few times to Party City to get Elmo stuff for her party. Now every time we drive by Party City she starts talking about her Elmo party and how her cousins came. Very cute!

First Elmo Party









I love this video because of how she says "landscaper". She used to be afraid of them...well, I think she still is...but she talks about them all the time. Any time she sees men with darker skin she calls them "lanscaper" haha





2nd Birthday Party!

Our Big 2 Year old!

Time for Elmo Cake
I made this...I wanted a picture, but forgot until after we sang to her...hence the nostrils!
Elmo Cake Pops!
The bow I made for her!
Cute little nephew Louis
All the kids digging for their candy from the pinata!
Aunt Elizabeth with AJ
The Bowens...I babysit their daughter Jolina...she's the cutest!
Aunt Denise and Giorgia
Another cute nephew, Christopher. Another one...Anthony!
Carolines friend, Isabella
Opening presents after a long day!