Corin and Abby decorating cupcakes for her birthday party
Comfortable nap before the party
Corin helping blow out the candle
Opening her gift from Grandpa and Mimi
Letting it all hang out with Pop
Corin and Abby playing in the cabinets on our beach vacation
Dmitri and Corin loving the beach
Abby digging herself into a hole
Corin's first roller coaster
Visiting Grandma in Atlanta
Post-bath playtime with Kennedy
Playing at the ATL Children's Museum
Kisses from Aunt Chelle
Playing on Kennedy's new playset
Swimming at Grandma's pool
Attempt at triple child photo shoot
Corin heading out for his first day of school
GO COLTS!
You would think that I’m busy with
work, family and life based on how infrequently I’ve been updating this
blog. But that will change shortly. I’ll have another update in a few days, but
wanted to get all of these pics up here first.
After
returning from Abby’s birthday party in Indiana,
we had another party for her at home with Grandma and some good friends. Abby and Corin stepped up to the plate to
assist with cupcake decorations. Corin
was only interested in dumping out the sprinkles and pretending to eat the cupcakes
(he actually doesn’t like any kind of cake or ice cream…straight chocolate is
his drug of choice). Abby enjoyed
spreading the icing and then destroying the cupcake with her knife.
We then had
a summertime visit from Pop and Lola. In
these photos (and in my mind) that rolled right into a beach vacation in NJ
with Pop, Lola, Aunt Faye and Dmitri.
The kids had a GREAT time at the beach.
Corin spent the first hour in the ocean pointing at every wave that came in and shouting “Look out! Behind you!”.
He and Dmirti had lots of fun running around on the beach and Abby was
completely content to dig, play and cover herself in the sand. We took the kids to a little amusement park
while we were there and all three of them had lot of fun riding the rides (and so
did I as the accompanying adult).
Once we
recovered from that trip, we loaded up again and headed down to Atlanta to visit Grandma,
Aunt Chelle, Uncle Nick and Kennedy.
Grandma’s new complex has a pool in it and we took full advantage of
it. We were there for about a week and
were by ourselves in the pool almost every day.
It was great weather and the kids are total water-babies. They have little floaties that let them swim
around on their own and they couldn’t get enough of kicking around in the pool. They love both of their cousins, so just like
the good times with Dmitri, they had a blast running around and playing with
Kennedy.
Once we
returned home it was time for Corin to head out for his first day of
school. He goes to school five days a
week for about 2 ½ hours in the morning.
For the first couple weeks, Mommy would take him to school and pick him
up every day. But fairly quickly he
started getting upset that he didn’t get to ride on the bus, since he saw all
of the other kids on there. So now he
gets picked up from the house by the bus (which he loves) and Mommy and Abby
walk to pick him up (which Mommy loves).
Abby cries out a little bit every time the bus takes her brother away. He has fun in school and he has been showing improvement in his speech
and in following directions.
