Sunday, end of the weekend

A new work week starts tomorrow. This weekend we didn't do too much- and nothing too festive either. We took in a couple of garage sales (actually sales at churches with mass amounts of stuff) and relaxed together with tasks here at home. I did get to do some yard work which I thought was enjoyable and somewhat "festive". I am closing up all the plantings....I have decided to move my veggie garden to the front of my house next year, in hopes to get more then 3 tomatoes, 2 green peppers and 1 zucchini! (it was a lot of work just for those!) So that entails moving some things and pulling out other things. I don't profess to be a landscaper, but I'll make a go at a nice flowering yard (Jon takes care of the grass) this coming spring. I am also clearing out a shared piece of planting between our neighbors and our house. It's totally overgrown and I want to figure out something a little more polished for the area. My neighbor doesn't mind, so I'll come up with something! Jon was busy with pressure washing the front steps- we're trying to change the current purple to gray, and so he's in the process of cleaning them off..the house will look totally different without the purple steps to look for. Jon did get a little football watching time in today, which he enjoys getting Caed to watch the 5 minutes that's he's interested for, with him.

Pictures soon to come, but still may be a few days off, we've got a busy week ahead of us! Tuesday I'll be filing a claim in small claims court (yuck) and Wednesday I am off to an all day conference in Baltimore for some graphic design stuff. Thursday we have a college friend of Jon's coming for dinner at night. Pretty soon we're back to the weekend!

100th posting!

My sister Kristen recently wrote about her 100th post, and so I asked her how she knew that- apparently, I was just at 100 too- it would have been my Vineyard pictures post! Too bad I didn't realize it before and wrote something more meaningful! :)

Well it's Friday, it's actually fall weather out and it's October. I am hoping we do something fall-ish this weekend. No other plans are on our planner, so it looks like a good possibility! I'll be posting more pictures again soon too. It's not everyday the Adare girls are altogether in one place!

Becky's engaged!

We just found out tonight that my best friend Becky is engaged!! Yay! Congratulations Becky and Jason, we pray many blessings on you both!

Becky, Jason and Jason's son Caleb:

Vineyards

Since leaving Long Island lots of vineyards have popped up out east on the island. It's really pretty so I wanted some photos with Caed.

Last of the Long Island photos

I am now free to post other photos now that I am getting these last photos up here- my own restriction- but it's better that way to get everything posted!

We went for a walk, and Caed only wanted to walk- so our walk became short:



Our very special Aunt Betsy and Caed:



We went to this farm where you can feed the animals, Caed loved it- the animals were so vocal too, it was a great reinforcement of 'Old MacDonald'!:



Loving the animals:



Finally a photo on the Tractor!:

More Horton Lighthouse

Here are a few more from the beach at the Lighthouse- the water was so beautiful, and Caed so cute!

At the top of the stairs down to the beach:



The flight of stairs that I carried him up and down:



Two quick pictures on the green slimy rock that he wanted to dive off of:




One pretty photo of the sailboat along the horizon and the water appearing to be clear:

Horton Lighthouse

My maternal grandfather's family are Horton's- descendants of the early Long Island Settlers. (I think I have that right?) My mom has always loved to bring us to the Horton Point Lighthouse, but the significance was not understood until I went back myself with Caedmon when we were out in Southold visiting the in-laws. I was out looking for Tractors, and saw a sign for the lighthouse and then decided to go. When we got there it was beautiful. Beautiful weather and setting. I took a few photos and really had a great time on this little unexpected adventure.

The lighthouse:



Getting Caed to sit still on my own was a little tricky:



Another:



On the bench on the lighthouse property:



Flagpole on the property:

On the boat with Grammie and Grandpa

Sorry it's taken so long to post these. With our trip up to PA and my sister Kristen's Blog already showing some of the photos from that trip, I decided I needed to get on the ball. Caed has just woke up from his nap, so this will be short.

Jon's parents have two boats, and on the Thursday that we were there before Jon arrived, we got a great ride on the smaller one. Caed loved it a lot! But that is no surprise!

With Grammie, leaving the canal to go out into the Peconic Bay:



Driving the Boat with Grandpa (he wanted to figure everything out!):



Pretty views:



A snack in the seat by himself:



Looking through the glass at the captains area:

Bathroom

Don't worry, this isn't going to touch on anything remotely undesirable.

We have our groceries delivered by Peapod (wonderful luxury!) and we were on our way out the door when the running late delivery wasn't running as late as they said showed up. So we got Khaki back in the house, Caed out of the stroller, and the task of getting the refrigerated items was at hand. While I was putting our groceries away, Caed was traipsing around the house. Then, I hear a squeak come from the bathroom and then water running. Caed has figured out how to turn on the faucet, and he's tall enough to reach it now. And he can push it enough to get a good stream running too. The problem is that it's the hot water he can reach. Small hazard for a toddler in the house. So I start to play "oh you can reach it, let me turn it off, put more groceries away and come back and turn it off again" game. I don't really have the availability to discipline this at the moment, so I let it go as I try to hurry as fast as I can. Then I come and look (make sure he's not touching the hot water) and for some reason he's taken the empty toilet paper roll that was in the trash and pulled off the remaining small pieces and started putting them in the sink with the running water- and then there are small pieces of TP scattered in my small bathroom. So we now have time for a quick disciplining moment of teaching "no-no" for the bathroom trash. I distract him enough and we retreat to the rest of the house for destruction while I finish getting those groceries away!

It's amazing that in 16 short months the progress he's made developmentally. And even though things like this are frustrating and make every task longer, I try to sit back and think of how quickly this time passes. We are truly blessed with our son.

"UP!"

My good friend Carrie called me last night and asked me about funny things Caed was doing. I was trying to think of some but was having a hard time recalling them on the spot. So this is just a short post- but I wanted to remember this funny thing Caed has been doing. When he wants to be picked up, he says "up" but then lately to get put down, he says "up" as well. So it's quite humorous when you are already carrying him, and he starts repeating incessantly "up, up, up!"

We know pretty soon with our reminders he'll get the hang of "down" so I wanted to make sure I didn't forget this short (hopefully) developmental progress.

Additionally, we just returned from a surprise trip to visit my sister Heather who turned 35 on Saturday- so I have to finish posting the photos of Long Island to post pics with my sisters. We were altogether!