My Family's Big Summer Vacation

You've probably been wondering where we've been since I haven't posted in quite some time. We've been on vacation. We went up to the northeast for two weeks. We visited T's family in Westport and our friends the E's and T's brother's family in NJ. Here are some of the over 450 pictures that we took over the past few weeks.

First, over labor day weekend, my mother came to visit and we went to the children's museum. I painted E's face and we had a great time playing. The museum was quite empty so we had it virtually to ourselves.

The first week in Westport was lovely. We were able to go to the beach and really have some very nice family bonding time. T and I discovered that it isn't really a vacation if you take your kids with you! Normally we go to Westport in August, but we were attending the wedding of D&L on 9/15, so we planned our trip around their wedding. D and T are friends from childhood.

We went fishing for crabs with baloney, wearing our fishing hats....

We went to see battleship cove on a rainy day......

And Z got his first haircut with us.... and survived

Z took his first steps on the beach!

We visited the topiary animal gardens.

And E practiced her lime juggling!

When the weather got cold during our second week, we walked on the beach and looked for shells (my favorite past time). On one of our walks we saw a starfish (!) and a large crab buried in the sand and many other small sea creatures.

We visited our friends the E's. Their daughter K and our daughter E are about 9 months apart, so they get along wonderfully.

We spent a night at Grandma's and Poppa's house....

Then we went to NJ and visited T's brother, C and his wife Tr and our nephew J, who all just had a baby boy M! He is very cute and we got to see him when he was only 7 days old. J and E are about 18 months apart, so they play very well together.

While in NJ, we took the train in NYC to see our adoption agency who has an office there. The social worker that we worked with during our adoption is named G and we got to visit with her and the rest of the office and had lunch with them. It was a wonderful opportunity to visit with then and show off Z as they had never seen him before.

My labor day weekend

Here are some photos of our labor day weekend. E getting dressed up in her princess dresses



Z with his cowboy hat on.

And us having french toast for breakfast. E is talking to her cousin J on the phone. J's mom is expecting a baby any minute. We were calling to see if the new baby had arrived yet. It hadn't.