Auntie Di Comes to Town

I was changing the sheets on Laina's bed and she asked me "why are you changing my sheets, Mommy". I replied that her sheets just needed to be changed. She then asked "are we having a visitor"? Smart kid. Whenever a visitor comes to town, Laina bunks in our bedroom and her room turns into a guest room so a lot of times when I'm changing her sheets its because a visitor is coming. I still didn't want to give away the surprise so I replied that we didn't have a visitor coming this time. Then I asked her, "if we did have a visitor coming, who would you want it to be?" And she replied...."AUNTIE DI!" Well, lucky her - because that's exactly who was coming to visit. When Auntie Di showed up later that night for dinner time, Laina was very excited! She stayed with us for almost a whole week! Laina asked if she could stay until Christmas! Ha ha.

Backyard Bubbles!

BUBBLE STUFF!!!
Laina and I had a wonderful time playing in the backyard. It was a nice warm spring day and the sun was shining and the bubbles were flying. Great day! The picture of Ms. Laina standing by the tree reminds me of a pose for a Senior Portrait - scary to think we'll ever be there. But then again, I didn't think she would ever be heading off to Kindergarten and well, that's just a few short months away. *sigh*

A great day to visit the fairy houses

We went to Mackworth Island to visit the Fairy Houses. This is a place that Joe and I used to go all the time when we lived in Portland. Its such a peaceful place to walk around. There's parts that are dark and covered with forest area, there's parts that are bright sunny and beachy, there's a rocky edge - it has it all! And now it has fairy houses. I'm not sure where this evolved from but in the foresty section of the island people have started building little fairy houses and its rather magical and whimsical. We packed a picnic lunch and walked around for a good 2 or 3 hours enjoying the beauty of Maine. When all was said and done both Cooper and Laina rested very well that night!

Easter Weekend

Oh we had a fun Easter weekend. The weather was amazing - like the middle of summer and that definitely added to the festivities. Grammy and Grampy came up for the weekend and Laina just loves playing with Grampy so she was in her glory. We colored Easter eggs, had an Easter egg hunt, visited with family, went to church, had a yummy ham dinner, enjoyed goodies left by the Easter bunny and made 2 pretty cute bunny cakes!

She Swims!

Big doings at the YMCA this week. Ms. Laina Nicole has learned to swim. Well, OK so she's not exactly swimming laps but she has released herself from clutching to our necks for dear life. We have done a lot of work over the past few weeks to help her get more comfortable in the water and trust us that she in fact can stay floating in the water if she just treads a little. And believe us she did. So very proud of you little one.

Maine Maple Sunday!

One of the best things about living in Maine is the ever popular Maine Maple Sunday. For our family it marks the start of spring, or at least the beginning of mud season which is way better then winter. There is this stretch between my birthday in January and Maine Maple Sunday where I just don't know if I can take another day of winter (although this winter was very forgiving). For the past few years we've headed to the same Sugar House to watch them make syrup, re-stock our syrup supply and enjoy some tasty maple treats! Here are some fun pictures of Joe and Laina. I particularly like the one of Joe all wide eyed looking at the syrup boiling.