Thanksgiving Weekend

Thanksgiving was at Andy's parent's house this year. After having a wonderful dinner with Grannie, Poppy, Uncle Bill, Nick, Ian and Margaret, we all went outside to get some fresh air and let Drew work off some of his meal.



"follow me everyone!" Drew LOVES bossing people around and his older cousins happily obliged his requests to chase him.
Throwing himself on the ground is another one of Drew's favorite activities when playing with his cousins. I am not quite sure why he likes this so much, but he was soaked when we were done playing!

After coming home and taking a nap (all of us), we decided to make a surprise trip to Auntie Laura's house. She had her dinner at 5:00 (ours was at 12:00), so we got there just as the meal was finishing up and had some leftovers and dessert with them. It was nice to see all of the family for the holiday!

After wasting most of Friday away because it was rainy and miserable outside, we decided to head out early today and take the kids to the Museum of Science. On the way in we saw a billboard for a Harry Potter exhibit and thought it would be a complete disaster. Apparently Harry Potter fans don't get up as early as we do, so the crowds weren't too bad.



Drew's new favorite show is Dinosaur Train on PBS. He likes it even more than Thomas! As soon as we walked into the exhibit he said "thats Triceratops!" I am always asking him to repeat the names of the dinosaurs, at first I expected to hear a funny, mangled version of the words, but his pronunciation is amazing. He always says "wait for Dr. Scott the Paleontologist to talk before we turn it off."


I have always wanted to see the butterfly gardens, and it was nice but I was really expecting hundreds of butterflies that would come and land on my head when I walked in the door. It wasn't quite like that, but fun anyhow.

Drew seeing what it is like to live with the chipmunks

Tonight we went to Uncle Chris's 52nd birthday bowling party! Drew had TONS of fun. He did some bowling (they actually had shoes his size) and loved the arcade games.

The birthday boy

Cousin Jack

Great Aunt Mary helping Drew bowl

Time for a little Harrison update. Since I haven't been blogging much lately I feel like I am not documenting all of the important moments.

Harrison is at such a fun, yet difficult age. He is fully mobile. He crawls (pretty darn fast), pulls up on ANYTHING! If something is 2 inches off of the floor he will hoist himself on it and try to stand up. He cruises a little bit but he mostly just tries to let go and walk which he can't do yet so he just falls flat. He has learned how to climb stairs, so our gates are going back up really soon! Harrison does not want to play with any age appropriate toys, only Drew toys. Drew is usually pretty good about sharing, but he can get really upset when he wrecks one if his lines of cars or train tracks.

He has said Dada, Mama and Dew, but he seems to have put them back in the vault lately because he said them for a week or so and hasn't uttered them again in the last few weeks.

Harrison is finally getting some teeth. I was so surprised that he didn't get them early like Drew did, but they are finally coming and boy are they hurting him. It looks like he could have at least 4 coming it at once. That would be fantastic, because I don't want to go through this over and over until they finally all come.

We are having so much fun with our boys! As much as I don't want Harrison to grow up too fast, I still can't wait until the two of them can really play together. Harrison loves watching Drew's every move and Drew is so good to him. I know they are going to be best buds!

I caved on my dislike of teething biscuits and gave Harrison one today. He really enjoyed it...until a piece broke off and I took it right away.

Happy Halloween!

We had such a fun Halloween this year. I had a really hard time deciding what to dress them as. Drew just said that the wanted to be a "costume", so I had free range. I was trying to coordinate them so I was going to do Star Wars or Wizard of Oz, or police officer and prisoner, but I just couldn't get the right costumes in the right sizes. I eventually gave up trying to coordinate and went to order Harrison a cow costume and Drew Kermit the Frog. Before I made the online purchase (no I don't make costumes), I showed it to Drew and he saw the "you may also like" column on the page and pointed to Fozzy Bear and said he wanted that. Ok, done. Sorta. The costumes came and the Fozzy Bear size 2-4T said "fits 1-2 years" on the package. It was skin tight and Drew kept saying "its to tiiiiiight". The search continued. I finally found a cowboy costume in his size and voila, coordinating costumes!

We started the day with a Halloween party at Logans house. Drew had a blast and came home with chocolate smeared all over his face. The sign of a good day!

After napping off the sugar, we went to Granny and Poppy's for our first trick-or-treat of the night.

Next, for the main event, we met up with our friends again and took them out to beg for food. I was worried that Drew would be really scared of all the decorations this year, but he really didn't mind too much. He noticed everything, but no freak outs. He only once got frightened and I had to grab him as he was backing off of the stairs about to fall over because he couldn't stop staring at a 6 foot tall goblin someone had in their doorway. He said "get me away from that thing!" Photos start from the end of the activities and go to pumpkin carving. Sorry, not enough time during nap to re-sort the photos. I have to learn to upload them backwards, so they post the way I want to show them.
Drew and Logan pulling the wagon.
It is only appropriate that he has a monochromatic toy to play with

"Smile for Grannie, Drew"

GOODY bag...
Charlie, Harrison and Alexandria. Couldn't get H to stop crying...Alexandria looks concerned






Drew was very excited to help carve, not so excited to pull out the guts!

Record Blogging Month

So one month without blogging is certainly a record for me. I am not even going to start to make excuses for myself because looking back, most of my recent posts are catch ups of 3 weeks worth of photos. I just have to resign myself to the fact that blogging has become second in line to keeping my sanity. I do however post lots of pictures on Facebook, so if you aren't my friend then you should be.

Here are some recent pics and a preview of Halloween!

Can you guess what I am going to be?



The Bubble Man at Patriot Place
Cutest Cow EVER!
Drew and Graham waiting to see the Bubble Man

Oh by the way, Harrison is full on crawling now and he sure knows how to cause trouble! He LOVES all of Drew's toys and can pull up onto the train table.

Still Here

Yes, we are still here. You wouldn't know it from my lack of blogging lately. My laptop broke, but I am now up an running on my new MacBook! I have some catching up to do, so I will post some older pics.

August 18th: Drew laughing at Harrison and Daddy making funny faces at him.

August 25th: Harrison loves his Exersaucer! Drew loves to cheer him on while he is playing in it. He will also spin him around to play with a different toy. We couldn't be more proud of how good Drew is with his baby brother. Just tonight in the car I was almost in tears over how sweet he was talking to him. We were on our way home from the grocery store and Drew tried to get Harrison to play with a toy he had in his carseat. "Harrison, squeak it...go ahead buddy. Harrison, please squeak it. Come on buddy you can do it. Good job buddy." Then he started to sing to him. He is always giving him kisses and talks so sweetly to him. He even laughs when Harrison snatches his binky out of his mouth. Drew is pretty possessive of his binky for the short amount of time he is allowed to use it, so that one surprises me.

The bride and groom with their best man and maid of honor!

August 30th: My grandparents 60th wedding anniversary. They were married exactly 55 years and one day before Andy and I. We had a nice time at their party. Harrison looked exceptionally cute in his outfit. Andy insisted that I put him in tights, but I think that the socks were adorable.

September 4th: Labor Day weekend at the beach!!!

September 14th: Harrison 5 months +1 day. Patriots opening day! The were both decked out in #54. He may have retired, but we still love him!!

We know Grannie and Poppy are reading from afar, so we are sending them all our love and hope they are having a fantastic vacation!!

Labor Day

Lucky Drew got to hang out with a whole bunch of his cousins this weekend. He is usually pretty good at names, but he just couldn't keep them all straight. Andy and I took both boys to the beach on Friday. Harrison had his first boat ride! I wasn't feeling too hot on Saturday, so Andy and Drew went back to the beach with Jane, Luch and the kids. Unfortunately, the fishing trip planned for this morning was cancelled due to the wind so we headed home since I was feeling icky. I really hope this cold goes away soon and doesn't spread to anyone else. Sudafed has done a great job drying up everything (brain included because I am feeling extra loopy).