Happy Birthday Teelin

Teelin 's 2nd Birthday party was all about tractors and beautiful weather and fun with family and friends. Our neighbor and farmer, John, brought over a couple tractors for the party goers to climb on and test out. Daddy Doob was brave and gave rides on the Bobcat and him and Teelin moved the plastic slide around the lawn just because they could. We didn't take super photos unfortunately, but maybe I can snag some from other family members to post later.

Monet and her friend Catherine enjoying their cake and ice cream!

Uncle Peter was up for the party as well and Aunt Danielle and Aunt Susan! Here Pete is helping Teelin take his new train set out of the box.

The completed set!

CAKE!

Monet and her friend Sam trying out the BIG tractor!

Moving that heavy plastic slide.

Four year olds love birthday parties!

Aunt Susan and Nanna with the birthday boy.

Nanna and Monet taking a dip in the pool. And if you look close you will notice that Nanna does indeed have her clothes on. She forgot her bathing suit, however, that didn't stop her from taking advantage of the warm clean pool water and swimming the length of the pool with Monet about 10 times!

This is Teelin helping Pete and Doobie putting together his train table. He was in Heaven and getting lots of encouragement.

August

August brought more hot weather and gave us enough perfect summery days to soak in. Hopefully we can remember to revisit them in our heads during the dead of winter while shoveling snow off the steps.

We invited the Behner's, Nanna & Pop-Pop, and the Wiley's up for a BBQ/pool-party/sleepover. Pop-Pop was away on business, however he was missed! It was the first time baby Norah came to Cornish and we were so happy to have her and dug out the bassinette and a few other "baby" things that had been stored away. The reason I kept them in the first place! We made homemade jalapeno poppers, king salmon, local free-range chicken, had corn on the cob and caperese salad fresh from the backyard! A few of us also enjoyed a bottle of Cabernet that we received as a gift during our trip to Napa last spring.

Louisa, Monet, Norah, Chester, & Teelin

Shot taken after out post-supper walk to the river and gazeebo. Scott had just taken a dip in the CT river! Proof in the photo below.

I think they kind of have the same look on their faces?!?

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We found the best pine grove blueberry patch only minutes from our house in Cornish one evening and picked a few quarts. They were so good we went home and made blueberry pancakes for dinner!

The Montshire Musuem of Science in Norwich, VT is really a wonderul science musuem that we visit frequently, and I have posted pics from other pasts visits before. During the summer months they open a water discovery area outside and encourage children and adults alike to get wet as they explore the properties of water. Teelin and Monet were true scientists and dove right in.

Beach Holiday

We had our week at the Beach in July this year rather then in August and it was a nice break from household duties and chores to just play and enjoy family. The kids were in heaven to be around their cousins, aunts and uncles and of course Nanna and PopPop for a week straight. We had lovely weather and didn't miss Mrs. Mitchell's or the Sweet Shop too much, but hope they rebuild for next year!

These three were inseparable!

Mamma Leonie's was a memorable experience!

It was windy and the tent kept blowing down, so we filled it with sand and it not only stayed in one place it allowed for shaded sand play!

Breaking the rules at not quite two!

July Part I

Hot, Hot, Hot was July. We spent so much time in our pool this year, even though there aren't many photos to prove it! The days went slowly sometimes as the temps soared, but we made the best of the cooler mornings and ate veggies for dinner from our bountiful CSA and own garden.

Goofy girl!

We celebrated our friend Bob's birthday with him in July. Teelin LOVES Bob and helped him with his candles.

Monet's favorite garden activity - YUCKY MUCKY. This was the scene most afternoons as I watered our vegetables, the kids turned into mud monsters. Cleaning off in the sprinkler was the best part!

Uncle Pete came from Philadelphia for the 4th of July and we ventured to Northern Acres for some fun on the pond. Scott pulled everyone on the Big Bertha, including Louisa…this was her first ride and I love the way her and Monet are looking at each other!

Pete driving Shorty!

K & T

June Cont.

June was a beautiful month in NH & VT and we took advantage of all the offerings in our area. One afternoon we joined our friends the Saladino's for a small fair in their town of Enfield, NH. The kids went on some rides, had ice cream and slid down the big slide on burlap bags probably a dozen times! Monet also did this trampoline jumpy thing!

We also went to the Quechee, VT Hot Air Balloon Festival, eventhough the balloons didn't go up the night we decided to go. But there was one inflated on the ground that you could walk into for $1. Teelin didn't know what to think!!

Catch Up...

I have not posted since June and so much has happened since then. I think I will do a post for each month (June, July, August, & September) with a few things posted about what we did in that month. I hope to be able to dedicate a bit more time to this blog and keep those family members and friends who are near and far up-to-date on our happenings and share photos.