May 2018

MAY 2018

A quick stop at Hershey Park 

 We enjoyed the little ride through Chocolate World

On to Gettysburg 

 Re-enactment of Canon firing

 

 We were out walking and got caught in a great Thunder storm

So we went to get dinner at Friendly's 

This is the ice cream that came with Madie's meal

 Hotel Life is pretty good

Madie LOVES going to hotels just for the breakfast 

Circles (Fruit Loops) and muffins

 WASHINGTON DC

 

Hello Mr Trump

---Washington DC in a day---

US Capitol, White House, Arlington Cemetery, Pentagon,

Jefferson, MLK, Lincoln, Roosevelt, Korean War, World War II,

Vietnam Memorials and Washington Monument.

 This is the last of the cherry blossoms

 

 Next Stop...

Washington DC Temple 

and visitor center

 BALTIMORE

Scott had a convention to go to (the reason for this whole road trip)

So he worked all day while we played

National Aquarium

 Madie was so brave and touched the Moon Jellies in the touch pond

She loved everything but the dark room of sharks. 

Her favorite seemed to be the dolphin show. 

She liked that they waved and splashed at us 

Brody was pointing and 'oohing and aahing' the whole time

We got some much needed lunch

 We spent some time at the harbor and 

of course we had to find a park

Ended the day with some Ice Cream

 Baltimore Day 2

We found a really fun park to go to 

We picked Scott up and made the 6 hour drive to Cyndy's

  

 The Crossing of Colonie Playground and Pond

Madie is really great at making friends

Madie said this is Daddy, Mommy, Madie and Brody Ducks

I have not been good at documenting this pregnancy,

but I 'popped' way earlier than I usually do

 

 Brody thinks he is one of the adults 

 Daddy's little boy

Back home after being on the road for almost 3 weeks

Enjoying the nice weather

Vacations are EXHAUSTING

 Hair Cut  #2

Sometimes It's nice to be reminded 

The Fun Continues

Grandpa and Grandma are here

BUBBLES

 Back on the road again

May 10th

 BOSTON

Larry 'Legend' Bird

 Grandpa, Madie and 'RED'

The reason for this trip was to meet up with Jaren Rogers 

and his Fiance' Stephanie.

We enjoyed lunch with them and then will meet up again tomorrow

 

 Plymouth Rock

 Hotel Life

 ..

 Yep, They are both picking their noses

 Jaren and Scott

 Bus and Ferry ride to.

 MARTHA'S VINEYARD

 Oldest Carousel in the nation

 These are called the 'Gingerbread Cottages'

 Here's Madie's dream house

 Glad we could spend some time with Jaren and Stephanie 

These kids would play at the beach and throw rock all day 

No matter what the weather is 

 The ferry ride with Grandpa and Grandma was so fun 

We are HOME and 

 happy to have a few more days

with the grandparents

 Madie feeding Lemons to Brody

Sacred Grove- Beautiful in Spring 

Park Fun

We went to the lake to feed duck but only found seagulls 

 After 8 months of being a one car family we finally 

got our Honda Pilot, 2010, 85,000 miles, and leather interior

(It was not our color choice but it will do)

We love it so much. Worth the wait!

We believe in miracles

At the beginning of this year we had no money in our savings

but due to tax returns, bakery pay, and a little extra savings 

we were able to pay cash for a $15,000 car. 

We're still not sure how it happened--- MIRACLES!!!

We took Madie and went to get our ultrasound.

I have thought from the beginning it was a girl 

and pretty sure I had everyone else convinced of that too, 

so when we saw that another little boy was headed 

our way we were pretty shocked.

But so OVERJOYED!!! We are so excited for this little guy.

We had Madie send a video to family and friends

She said 'Baby, it's a boy baby.'

It took 3 takes though because she kept saying girl baby.

 Sometimes it's best to sleep like this

 Lollipop Farm

 Rolly Polly with Grandpa

 Last activity with Grandpa and Grandma

 Rochester Lilac Festival

  It always hard to say goodbye

We are grateful to spend time with grandparents

They read so many books, went to plenty of parks and witnessed

too many of Madie's meltdowns. 

We love you Grandpa and Grandma Hirschi

Pirate park with the Grays and the Hawkins

Madie loves playing with cousins

 Brody is playing games with the big kids and Papa

 Pool party with Weston

 Daddy Daughter Date Night

Carousel rides and Ice Cream

 

Brody has been practicing for little brother 

 Beautiful day at Kershaw park

Madie making friends, as usual

 First trip to Grimes Glen for the Summer

 Memorial Day Parade

They were waving and clapping for everyone

and we came home with WAY too much candy.

It was hot at the parade and everyone needed Naps

The Davenport women were asked to be in charge

 of the Ward Memorial Day Picnic

Scott had the idea to do Pizza's on the grill with our Futia's Dough

 Everyone loved the pizza and were amazing you 

could make pizza on the grill.

 Brody got to eat a lot of food he doesn't get to eat at home

 First time in the sprinkler and loved it

 It was a huge success

 

Glad it's over though

MADIE UPDATES

 

Mom, we don't have tails huh?

Nope

Just bummies? 

Yep

Prayers, songs and sentences are more clear, filling in all 

the words and using complete sentences.

Sings Frozen and Moana constantly

Madie prayers 'Grateful for baby in mommy's belly'

She has a baby in her belly too, it's a girl baby.

I can finally do some cute things with her hair

She is always complementing me

'Great Driving Mom'

'I'm proud of you Mom'

'Good Job vacuuming Mom'

She also very polite- very good at saying please and Thank You

Refuses to take naps, but when she does she is not tired for bed at night.

We aren't in the 'terrible twos' but we are in the 'Very Emotional Twos'

If you point to your cheek and tell Brody to come kiss

He comes over open mouthed and blows a slobbery strawberry on your cheek.

It's so cute and funny.

--He knows where is head, belly and toes are

--He does the hand motions with us for; Twinkle Twinkle, wheels on the bus, Patty Cake, Head Shoulders Knees Toes and Itsy Bitsy Spider.

--Says- Moo, Baa, Woof, and does the elephant arm

I'm so lucky to get cuddles from my boy

Brody wakes up at 5:00am every morning. I bring him into our bed and put a 

fleece blanket on him. He rubs the blanket and looks up at the windows for an hour, sometimes he falls back asleep, but at 6:00am he sits up, crawls off the bed, goes to the stairs, waits for mommy or daddy to go downstairs with him. When he gets downstairs he goes straight for his shoe box and brings his shoes to you to put on. He is ready to get going. 

Can go up and downstairs all by himself

The cuteness level is through the roof

 In July 2017 We had 1 company and 1 employee.

We now have 3 company's and 16 employee

with more in the works