Sunday, December 16, 2012

She's a climber!

Want to hear something crazy? Both of my kids, at 9 months of age have learned how to climb stairs... at their Mimi and Papa's house. 

What fun! (besides the part that they are actually climbing stairs) 

Nora, November 2012

Andrew, July 2009


Man, I love 9 month olds! 

We, three Jeans.

While in Maine, we were able to go and see Morgan's Grandma. It was nice for Grammy to see her namesake! Her name is Jean, Kim's (Morgan's mom) middle name is Jean, as well as Nora. (Morgan also has a cousin, Hillory whose middle name is also Jean). Lots of Jeans in this family!!


I think Nora had her Great-Grammy wrapped around her finger pretty quickly.


 I absolutely am so glad to see how this picture turned out! I'm so glad we were able to make it out to see Grammy!


Saturday, December 15, 2012

Thanksgiving trip to Maine!

Over Thanksgiving Break (one of the few perks of still being students... holiday breaks!) we were able to head up to Maine to visit Morgan's parents. We had a GREAT time! It was Nora's first time going to Maine, as well as flying. 

We were extremely lucky the flights there and on the way home....


 ... we had both kids sleep most of every flight! (Now, the drive from Boston to Maine was a completely different story...)

A few of the sights from the trip...

Andrew enjoying breakfast with Minnie, Bananas, and Sims (the cat that lives at Mimi and Papas)

Seeing Santa during the Thanksgiving Parade


While in Maine, Morgan's best friend from high school got married. Morgan was in the wedding party.

 Little scenes like this were found all over the house. Little evidences of Andrew...


Morgan's parents had left the trampoline up in anticipation of having us come up. Every morning right when Andrew woke up he'd ask to go out to jump. Thankfully the weather was pretty moderate that he was able to jump to his little hearts content. Nora even got in on the fun. She would just cackle away as she'd be bounced around.

Silly face on Papa's sliding glass door.

Nora has quite a fondness for her Papa Stinson. It was so sweet to see them interact with each other!

Nora getting to know Sims....

Daily walks around the neighborhood... especially to the river and train tracks. Or the "RR Sign" as Andrew would put it.

NO visit to Maine would be complete without Pat's Pizza and a visit (or two) to Governor's.



Seriously, we had a great time. We were also able to go visit Morgan's grandma and have Thanksgiving dinner with his aunt and family, and Morgan's brother Evan. It was great to see so much family. Can't wait til we can get up there again!


Friday, December 14, 2012

Brotherly Sisterly Love

At the park the other day it hit me how much my kids really absolutely love each other. I'm such a lucky mom. These sweet kiddos add so much joy to my life!



 (Andrew kissing Nora after she got a little fussy)



Thursday, December 13, 2012

Leaves!

For most of the month of October and November the grass infront of our townhouse was COVERED in leaves. Our building must have been in the sweet spot to collect massive amounts of leaves. Needless to say, my vacuum was put to work daily. 

Andrew loved running through them every chance he got. He also loved seeing the landscapers use their super strong blowers to collect them all. (Although he was sad that they were all gone!)



Pardon the undies shot. That's how Andrew rolls some days :-)