Memorial Day Weekend Part II: More Funnnn!

The Cape Cod funnnn continued on Saturday afternoon and Sunday. Here are some of the things we got ourselves into...

Cuddling Phoebe (who could resist?)



Eating ice cream like a crazy lady



Playing golf (she's not half bad)

{she's got the WRONG teacher!}

Putting a coffee filter hat on a poor, unsuspecting, innocent baby

{sucking her thumb}

Drinking "tea"

Visiting with Greatnana and Greatpoppa

Visiting the ZooQuarium (that's right, zoo + aquarium = zooquarium)

And skinny dipping in the pond! I can't post those pictures (a little girl's gotta have some dignity!) but here is a great one of her drying off...

Stay tuned for photos from our day on Monday with Popi!

Memorial Day Weekend Part I: Beach Babies

We had a really fantastic Memorial Day Weekend. The weather was perfect...it seems like it is finally getting warmer to stay. On Saturday morning we headed down to the Cape for a few days. We started out by going to a great lunch at a place across the street from the beach. About halfway through, Lucy noticed the beach and was determined to get there as quickly as possible. She absolutely loves it there, which makes me SO happy because I was always such a beach baby (still am!). I was commenting to Jeff yesterday on how "fun" is now defined for me as seeing my children have fun. And Lucy had so much "funnnnn!" (as she says it). She ran in and out of the water even though it was freezing cold and built a castle out of seaweed. As my mom wisely said, we should make sure that Lucy does not fear seaweed because there is so much of it in Cape waters...so we're trying to have her think of it as a fun building material for her castles. It was also a momentous occassion in that it was Phoebe's first trip to the beach! She wasn't really into the action much, but when the weather gets warmer and we can dip her toes in the water I think she may like it just as much as her big sister does. We took a ton of beach photos...here are some of my favorites:

Spring's in full bloom

Fun with hats

Phoebe looking very cute, though a bit like Gilligan

Phoebe looking at Lucy in her "creative" outfit, thinking, "THIS is supposed to be my role model??"

She's my delicious little baby

Providence get-away

We had a little overnight get-away in Providence this weekend. Well, not really a true get-away, because the kids came with us :) But it was a fun little trip for our family and a nice change of pace. Lucy loves hotels, as I think I have written about before, so it was a cause for great excitement. We went down on Friday evening to attend a party at our friend Bill's company. Lucy was very excited to wear her new "ballerina shoes" dress that I made for her. She had a lot of fun at the party and was really well-behaved. The highlight for her was the pinata. It was so cute to see her make a mad dash for the candy when it finally came out. She must have eaten 10 lollipops! We couldn't get a good picture of her in her new dress (of course)...here's the best we could do:

When we got back to the room, it was well past bedtime but the girls were both in a silly, giggly mood:


Phoebe finally settled down and went to sleep in the stroller bassinet next to the bed. Lucy, getting to stay in our king-sized bed with us, took a lot longer to settle. Of course, we didn't help matters by ordering ice cream from room service. It took almost an hour to arrive, by which point I think it was nearly 10pm, but nonetheless Lucy and I enjoyed our ice cream in bed. Why not? She did finally go to sleep and she did pretty well keeping her legs to herself. In the morning we had breakfast at the hotel and a swim in the pool, then took a walk around the Providence Place Mall before heading back to Boston. Lucy is still talking about her little adventure and wants to go back to a hotel "again soon." It's a nice little life she's got, huh? Here are my bathing beauties before our trip to the pool:

Girls in bloom

And speaking of blooming, Phoebe and I (Lucy was at daycare) spent a lovely day yesterday touring the hidden gardens in Beacon Hill. It's a once-a-year event sponsored by the Beacon Hill Garden Club. We got to see some amazing little gardens hidden behind the walls of some breathtaking homes. Oh, what we wouldn't give to live there! The highlight was getting to walk through an amazing single family house on Mt. Vernon street that I thought existed only in my wildest fantasies. Because it's held on a weekday, the event is populated mostly by ladies-who-lunch, all of whom went ga-ga over seeing little Phoebe strapped to me in the Bjorn. After looking at the gardens, we met my mom for lunch at the Parish Cafe (one of my favorite places). It was such a great day! I didn't take any photos of the gardens themselves because I didn't want to be intrusive (the owners were right there), but I did take a few of the other beautiful flowers we saw along the way. This is truly Boston at its finest...

{wisteria on a home in louisburg square}




{me and my baby after lunch with nonni at the parish cafe}