4th of July

We went with Christine to her friend Michelle & Neil's house in Plymouth for a cook out and to watch the fireworks. The live right by the harbor so it's a great location to see the fireworks. They had a big bouncy house for all the kids. Then we walked down and sat on the rocks to see the fireworks, you could see them from all the neighboring towns first too. It was nice, but then long night, we had to wait about and hour before we could even start to drive home with all the traffic.

Water Wizz

Jen and I took our kids to Water Wizz Saturday. Nick, Maddie & JP had a blast. We were heading to Falmouth to cousin Jane's house for a cookout that afternoon, so figured what better way to spend a hot Saturday than a water park. The kids could go on a lot of the slides, although I sent JP on the black hole slide, which can only be done single, so he went by himself, I went first then he came down after, I was scared, but he seemed to enjoy it. I think he needs to wait until next year to ride it again, it is a little too big for him, but Maddie went down in like 3 times and loved it! We will stick to the double slide where I can go with him and the lazy river. The kid areas are fun too, but JP didn't love the pirate area, all the water pouring down, he doesn't like it in his face. Can't wait to take them back again.

Maddie's Dance Recital

Maddie was in a Dance Recital with InSync Dance. It was probably the funniest thing I have seen. The recital was made up of classes of girls age 3-6, some of them didn't move at all just stood there looking at the audience. It was so funny and cute. Maddie did pretty well, she stared at her teacher the whole time so she knew what the moves were. She certainly loves her dance class.

Maddie the Dance Teacher

Here are a couple of funny videos of Maddie pretending to be her dance teacher, and of course teaching her star pupil JP.

Moving AGAIN!!!

Well we are moving again, this time to my childhood house in Milton. Originally we were going to move into the house with my Dad to help him renovate (it needs it badly) so he could sell it in the spring. But now we are buying the house renovating it and possibly flipping it or maybe staying for a year or two. It is tricky because Maddie will start kindergarten next year and we wanted to be settled where we thought we were going to stay but who knows. Jamie's work takes him to all different places, he has been contracting over the last year plus, and we don't know where we will stay. Milton is nice, I know it well, it is close to work and Chucko and Adrienne just bought a house too, plus Laurie is there and Karen is right down the street in Canton. We are closer to a lot of people and my family so it will be nice. The house is plenty big and it has some great features, it is a hundred year old colonial with 9 foot ceilings, beautiful moldings and a lot of decorative windows and features, but my Dad is not a good home owner. He is not very handy and does not like fixing up stuff around the house, so we have our work cut out for us. Now that Jamie's contract at Monster is up he is working on the house full time. We have some before pictures I will post when we get them developed and we will keep updating as we finish things. I was able to help Saturday and yesterday and the living room is all painted and I LOVE the color. Once the floors are finished and the furniture is in and pictures, etc. It will look great!!!

Apple Picking

It was a beautiful weekend, so apple picking we went. Jen, Nick & Christine met us at Tougas Farm. It was packed, everyone had the same idea. We picked apples and peaches, they were great. Maddie had so much fun climbing up the trees and standing on Christine's shoulders to get the best peaches at the very top of the trees, and she did. Then we waited in line forever to get the delicious apple cider donuts, YUM!! Now we have to make a bunch of treats. JP will eat all the peaches before we make anything so I only need to worry about the apples. JP and Maddie LOVE peaches, 2 for breakfast already today!

JP went Pee-Pee in the Potty!!!!

JP has sat on the potty a few times, but nothing until tonight! I haven't even gotten him out the kid's potty yet he has sat on the real toilet and finally he did it. Although not much, he is still a bit unsure of the whole thing, but I think he will get better at it soon!! Can't wait for no more diapers!!!