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The girls of the playgroup looking their best! Each of these girls has their own SASSY style already. Love it!!


We did these photos after a wild playgroup. The girls all had a little attitude because they all just wanted to go to bed. Just imagine these girls in a few years... sleepovers, talking about Pike and Will on the phone, dances! Oh boy!!!

opera singing at the gym

Oh boy! We went to Gymboree today... and it was nothing like last time. We could not stop laughing at the lady singing. She was trying to sing like an opera singer but it was so not working for her. Look at Jodi and Randi's face! haha! Nobody could keep a straight face in the room. Luckily for us it was only a 45 mins. and FREE!
I wish I had a recording of her singing the TUMMY TIME song! AHHH!! And for me to say she was a bad singer you know it must have been really bad. I need to get Mrs. Carpentier to go over and tell her how bad of a singer she really is. If she told me I sing like a cow... I wonder what animal she would compare this lady to.

Happy Birthday GranDanny!

Riley was going back and for from Grampy to GranDanny under the table at Central Office today. She is almost ready for Bethel Schools, she starting to get this walking thing down (with help)... she already has done ichats, podcasts, she plays with the iphone and lets not forget open ended questions... too bad she lives in Newtown!

wanna ride?

We hope your friends understand that you are just a social butterfly... you are not leaving the group you are just making more friends. lol Again at the baby group... Riley left her friends that are her age to play with the older kids. (older as only a couple months) She grabbed the walker and was off to "the other side"...of the room that is. haha!
But like a good friend she came back to her old friends... and better yet, she brought a new friend over too!
To show her old friend she still loves them, she gave them rides around the room!
Riley and her buddies... 4 Life! Yo! hahaha! :)

Bread

Bread?!?! After Olivia's Birthday Party we went to Elizabeth's Baby Shower. Marina showed Riley how nice it feels to teeth on hard Italian bread...not to mention it taste good too! YUMMY! The girls also had fun playing with Riley. She loves playing with the big girls!

Happy Birthday Olivia

Happy 1st Birthday to Riley's cousin Olivia!



We have a big extended family. Dawn is my cousin... her grandfather on her mom's side and my grandmother on my mom's side are brother and sisters. Yes I know Ryan too has a hard time understanding that we are so close with our second cousins... and lots of people don't even know their first cousins that well. I guess it's an Italian thing... you are in the family now! :)

Rachel Henderson Photography

One of my friends happens to also be a photographer... both of us were talking on how we love to take photos of others and their families but we wish we had the type of pictures we take, taken of our families. What a great opportunity we have... we decided to take our families for a walk and take some photos of each other's families (we hope to do this more often too). Rachel was able to post some photos up already on her photography blog. (her daughter is older and takes longer naps as well as goes to bed earlier... lol) Check back here soon I will be posting more photos of both of our families. Until then...

It is great having these family photos. Self timer is great but this is true art! Thank you Rachel for capturing our family having fun! We love them!! :)

playgroup in our playroom

Riley invited all her buddies from playgroup over for grilled cheese and tomato soup on this cold rainy afternoon. All her friends had fun playing in her playroom (which used to be her daddy's "playroom" lol).


While playing with her friends she wanted to show to them how she could take a few steps with the help of her lion walker... instead of just taking a few steps she took off. Riley spent most of the afternoon walking back and forth in the playroom with her lion. She wore herself out and took a LONG afternoon nap. I think I am going to like this walking thing if it means long afternoon naps... (yes I am prepared to eat my words on that later)

the fastest time of the day

I think the afternoons are the part of the day that flies by the fastest! We usually are all rushing around in the afternoon getting everything that we never got to that day. We try to make a strong effort to sit down to a home cooked family dinner at night... but sometimes our crazy lives have a different plan for us. How did life get so crazy? We need to find time to just relax and enjoy each other's company. We need to find time to play and just be...






Riley gets so excited when Ryan gets home. She knows! She was sitting at the window watching him do work outside and every time he looked at her she started to squeal. It was soo cute!





Mommy loves you! Riley knows her momma... when she is tired or hungry... mamamama! I just want to eat her up!

Afternoon

Hello Fall! Are you ready for apple cider? crunchy leaves? pumpkins? For the first day of fall we were woken up to GG bringing Riley a new LL Bean sweatshirt. How lucky is Riley?!?

Then Grampy stopped over after he played golf to say hi! He is such a proud Grampy! Whenever I am working in the schools, everyone has to stop me to tell me how proud my dad is of his Riley!



After taking a few photos with Riley's favorite babysitter... we hired him to take a few photos of us as a family. (the carpenter's house is never finished... and the photographer's family is never photographed... together that is.) Grampy is a pretty good photographer right? Guess who taught him?!?! hahaha!

Good Bye Summer

Good Bye Summer!
I can't believe it is fall already! I can't believe that the cold weather is on the way.
I will miss you summer! I will miss dressing in just onesie and no socks!
But I am excited for the fall! I am excited to go apple picking... trick or treating... and to touch crispy fallen leaves for the 1st time!
As much as we are sad to say Good Bye to my 1st Summer...
I am happy to experience my 1st fall!