Our little Monkey

Just a regular day, a little chilly... why not wear last year's monkey costume for a coat?

Mommy's Birthday

Happy Birthday to Mommy!  Thanks for the cupcakes AND delicious CAKE Grammie and Elodie!

30 Month Check-Up

Elodie turned 2 and a half on October 4!  She knew this meant a trip to the doctor, and we prepped her well for the visit (last time she FREAKED OUT about the scale, and the nurse, and the doctor.)  But this time, she was prepared!  And her BFF Jasper just happened to have a flu shot appointment at the same time and I think his presense helped keep Elodie calm.  He even showed her how to stand on the scale by herself! 

 

So, at 30 months, AKA 2.5 years old, Elodie measures in at 36.5", dipping slightly to the 69th percentile.  She weighs in at 28 lbs, 13 oz, almost 2 pounds heavier than last month!  She's in the 53rd percentile for weight.  Doctor said she's doing well, but we knew that already:)

 

After the appointment, we went to Betty Bakery with Jasper and ate too many cookies and espresso cups of milk!  Fun time for everyone!

 

Grammie's Birthday Surprise Party!

The most exciting thing that we did while on vacation was have a SUPRISE party for Grammie's 60th Birthday!  We surprised her a couple days before heading out to Long Island by having Great-Grandma Helen show up in Hartford!  And then again, the last weekend of vacation we suprised her with a visit from Great-Uncle Bob, Great-Aunt Anna, Amanda, Great-Aunt Kelly and Fred!  We can't publish the video of that surprise due to expletives....  let's just say she was shocked and happy!  On our last night we had a clam bake at the house.  It was delicious and fun!  Elodie was so excited for the big surprise and especially the CAKE!  She stayed up late - maybe 9:30ish for the cake, but as soon as we sat down to take a bike she said "I want to go to bed now!"  And didn't even want one bite of cake!

 

Anna and Grammie, waiting for the food!

Lindsey, Grandma Helen and Aunt Kelly getting the chowder ready

chicken nugget tv dinner for elodie

lobster, steamers, mussels and shrimp for everyone else!

someone's excited for lobster!

Amanda, Rick, Ali and Fred

Grammie and Papa

Papa and Uncle Bob

Grandma Helen, Papa and Grammie

Birthday Ladies (Grandma Helen had just turned 80!)

GH and 3 of her 4 kids

The Leibenhaut Crew

the whole Poppe Leibenhaut gang!

Birthday ladies!

singing "happy birthday"

staying up late for cake!

Greenport Carousel

Oh my, how you've grown Elodie Grace!  As is the tradition, we went to the Greenport Carousel while out on Long Island this year.  So far, we have been every year since Elodie was born!

 

Flashback to 2011 - part 1 and part 2 - at 15 months old!

 

And back to 4 months old in 2010!

 

And here she is at 2 years and 5 months old in 2012!

 

Waiting for the music and moving to start

still waiting, with daddy

Aunt Lindsey (and Lena and Uncle Jay) are ahead of us!

finally, we're moving!

Grammie and Great-Aunt Kelly taking pictures of us!

she loves it!

Riverhead Aquarium

OK, OK... it's been a month since we've been back from our vacation on the North Fork...  I'm finally posting some! The vacation was great!  I'll tell more in other posts - this one is about our rainy day visit to the Riverhead Aquarium.  Elodie had fun!

"oh no, what's that?"

a shark!

the joy of feeding the koi

so interested in the sea lion show

or more interested in the chaos happening behind us in the seating area?

 

 

Durham Fair

This past weekend, we went to Connecticut to visit with the Leibenhaut's and Great-Grandma Norma.  On Saturday, we woke up early (as per usual) and made a quick trip to the Durham Fair before GiGi got up!  We used to go to the Durham Fair every year as kids, and I even brought Michael the first year we were dating, 2002!  It was pretty amazing to experience the Fair again with Elodie in tow! 

Walking to the Fair

Looking for the Animal Barns and eating Donuts (is that Gigi in the red walker behind us?)

Found the Chickens!

Lena Likes Llamas (or is that a unicorn?!!)

Elodie throwing darts to win a prize!

Checking out the "Funny House"

 

And while she was scared to go down the curvy slide at the end of the Fun House by herself, she was not afraid to go for a spin on the the glittery cars ride by herself!  I got tears in my eyes watching her  ride this thing.  She was sooo happy and waved at us so enthusiastically each time she rode by!