So we've obviously been up to a lot since the start of school!  We've been attending festivals, checking out area attractions and just general busy business.  Luke is in swimming lessons these days and I'm thinking about signing Adrienne up for gymnastics.  She seems to be rather coordinated and is a little climber.  I've started working out  and reading again and Matt's studying for the CFA exam - we like a lot of activity - can you tell?  Oh and we've been house hunting, too! Once we get a house, I'll be able to start a new hobby of house projects.

Luke has started reading - yay!  He's known his letter sounds for a while now but he's been putting them together at school and thus, he was sent home with his first reading book - Goldilocks.  He's been making huge progress in school this year.  Ade's still hanging out at daycare but she's in a new room that has new equipment that she loves.  We're gearing up for Halloween - Luke will be a skeleton (his decision) and Ade will be a cow (not her decision).  We have bits and pieces of Halloween decorations ALL over the house and the floor, and the couch - and they stick to my socks- hmf.

At a winery in Naples - we were feeding the Koi right out of our hands!














My soapbox rant of the day:
So I was reading a "fitness" blog this morning and I was totally turned off by it.  This author is a personal trainer who is now pregnant and she wrote in her blog, don't worry, this won't turn into one of those "mommy blogs!"  Seriously, at least years down the road, I'll have a written account of all the fun we've had along the way, instead of a compilation of posts that all the say the same thing - don't enjoy food and work your body into the ground!

On to more fun things!

Ade with crazy hair and her baby:

 Ade's crazy hair is getting long!

Playing after dinner:

And the Pumpkin Patch:

School Year 2011-2012

Well the first day of the 2nd year of school has come and gone already.  I have to say, it was rather easy and pleasant this year.  I love not being the new kid on the block.  You see, I think the first day of preschool last year was much more anxiety provoking for me than it could ever have been for Luke.  This year was easy peasy - I knew what to expect and more importantly Luke knew what to expect.  He walked in there like he owned the place - naturally.  He spotted his teacher, Mrs. Robinson right away and gave her a nice big hug, then we walked in his classroom and immediately got back to work as if he had left off just yesterday.  He didn't even wait for me to say, "Bye Luke, have fun!"  Before I had the chance he said, "Bye mom, I'm having fun!"  

Little A went along with us and she also walked in there like she owned the place.  She wanted to pull things off the shelves and play with the big kids. So below are pictures of both kids on Luke's first day of school!

Puerto Rico

Ah, R&R in PR!  We snuck off for three fabulous days to Puerto Rico last weekend and the trip couldn't have been any better.  Great weather, great hotel, great drinks, sleeping through the night, sleeping in, eating a leisurely pace - we had it all!  We mainly did two things: hangout at the pool and one trip into Old San Juan.  We did a lot of hanging out at the pool with lots of adult bevvies.

The kidlets went on vacation to Mimi's and were entertained by the likes of Aunt Emily, Uncle Tommy, Karis and all the usual suspects who pass through the revolving door at my mom's house.   They were worn out when they got home to say the least.  I even got the cold shoulder, I'm mad at you routine from the little miss.  ha!  She got over that in about 15 minutes when she realized her favorite food source was back.  Luke had a lot of stories to tell - we're still hearing new ones 5 days later.

Great trip...can't wait for the next one!

Silliness!

So the babe was snoozing and the hubs was lounging (unusual, huh? LOL) so the boy child and I were being silly. And then the hubs decided he wanted in on the fun since he couldn't sleep through our laughing. And we laughed so.hard.

Ah, Summer, please stay a while

I was doing really well with updating the blog regularly and then I got busy will all things summer! You have to take advantage of it while it's here! It's only August and I'm already dreading the Upstate NY winter. Luke goes back to his Montessori school in about 2 weeks and everything is the same for everyone else. We've been doing lots of activities like festivals and going to parks, swimming in the lake (well, not actually me, I don't swim in lakes) and just being outside! We've been eating lots of ice cream, too. Lots of it. We tried to convince Adrienne that ice cream is not a finger food but she has her own opinion on that.