Thanksgiving!

Hello everyone!

We had Thanksgiving at Nan & Pup's house this year! And we ate a turkey that we raised in our back yard! That sucker was around 24 pounds of yummy goodness :)

Here's who was at Thanksgiving dinner:
Me
Vilee
Mama
Daddy
Nana
Papa
Mimi
Shane
Ian
Roland (Shane's daddy)

Roland is a magician and showed me some magic tricks! We put on a show after lunch and wowed the crowd. When he comes back to our house for Christmas he's going to bring some new tricks for me to try out. I'm pretty good at this magic stuff ya know.

I made special costumes for everyone for Thanksgiving. The girls (and Ian) got Indian headbands and the boys got pilgrim hats and bibs! Here's a funny photo of Uncle Shane and Baby Ian...

 

Uncle Shane was pretending to be a very serious pilgrim.

It was a nice day out, so Mimi took some photos. Here are some of her favorites...

 

 

Christmas will be here before you know it! I'd better start practicing my "good" behavior. I found out that Roland is Santa's cousin! Can you believe it?! 

xo Ayda Sue

 

Aunt Mimi & Uncle Shane

We had a busy weekend...and it was so much fun!

I had a really good week at school last week, so Mama and Daddy took me out to Texas Roadhouse for dinner to celebrate! It was a special dinner, so Vilee had to stay home. Well, not home, really, but with Mimi and Shane. I got to have my parents ALL to myself with out sharing them with my baby sister. It was awesome.

Vilee here....I didn't want to go to that stinky restaurant ANYWAY, just so you know. I was perfectly happy chillin' with my aunt and uncle. Shane fed me my yummy dinner in baby Ian's high chair (he's too little for it right now....don'cha know!) and Mimi gave me a super bubbly bubble bath. I read a book, played with some toys, and stood up on my own with NO HANDS...thankyouverymuch! I event got to sleep in baby Ian's comfy crib! It was awesome.

Anyway....as I was saying. 

On Sunday, Uncle Shane took me on a date to see a funny play about aliens and zombies. Mimi was worried that I would be afraid but I wasn't! After I had dinner at Mimi and Shane's house and got to watch a video on Mimi's iPad -- my MOST FAVORITE passtime. 

I didn't really want to go home after dinner, so I suggested I clean and dust Mimi's spoon collection. Collecting spoons is really weird, but it was fun trying to guess where each came from. They were REALLY dusty!

 

And today I don't have to go to school! It's Veterans Day! What an awesome three-day weekend I'm having!

xo Ayda (and Vilee)

Gossip

Ian had a hard day at daycare...he didn't want to take his afternoon nap! Listen to how he talks about his daycare provider, Tammy. What a rude baby!

Halloweenies!

Halloween came and went but not before me and my little "monster" friends (Okay, only G and I were monsters) and I took full advantage of the festivities!

On Saturday Mumma and her friends took us kiddos to Downtown for some trick-or-treating.  It was VERY warm out--so the ghouls and goblins came out of the woodwork!  It was too crowded for us, so we split.

Vilee slept for most of the trick-or-treating, but she was a ladybug--see?

Later that day we decided to carve our pumpkins with Pup, cause he's the best at it.  I scooped all the guts out and the babies helped...

.... kinda.

The pumpkins were pretty spooky once we lit them all up.  And some came out looking a little familiar... hmmmm.

Happy Halloween Everybody!

-xoxAxox

Frenchie

 

Bonjour! 

I am zee French bebe, Ian-Jacques Perry. I am here to amaze youz wiv my adorable face! You love zee beret, no? Zee beret was a gift from zee friend of my mother. Zee "girl with the yellow hair" as my couzin, Ayda, likes to call her. 

Many kisses...French ones.

Violet Turns One!

Guess what everybody?  I made it through my first year already.  Even though it makes Mumma pretty sad that I'm growing up, I'm pretty excited about all the new things I'm learning how to do!

On Sunday Mumma and Daddy had a party for me at our house.  Grandma and Grandpa were here visiting from New York, Sally came from Portland, and my near-by friends and family came too. 

I had so much fun--mostly because I got to eat alot.  That's my favorite thing, don't cha know.

Mumma made  me these "Vilee-sized" cakes and I got my very own with a candle!

I'm still kinda little to blow them out myself, so Ayda helped me.  Sometimes she's really good at being a big sister... sometimes.

My cake was very yummy...

... so yummy in fact, that most of it made it into my mouth!

Happy Birthday to ME!

xoxo
V.A.S

Charleston!

So, a few weeks ago my mom and dad took me on my very first plane ride. I was a little nervous, and right before mum and I were getting on the plane in Bangor I threw up all over her. She was disgusted, and a little mad since she didn't bring a change of clothes, but I felt WAY better. As soon as we got to our destination—the house of mumma's friend Heather—she took a shower.

 

This is a photo of me and my two new friends—baby Emerson and Charlotte! Like this action shot of Emmy puking?! Let's not hold it against her, ok?

 

Daddy gets a real kick out of this photo. He calls it "The Thinker". What he doesn't know is that I'm "thinking" about pooping in my pants while he holds me. Ha!

 

We did a lot of cool things when we were in Charleston. On Saturday we went to this cool farmer's market. It was so hot out that I didn't even have to wear pants! We spent the day walking around the city and shopping a bit. The next day we went to the beach and had some really good BBQ. Well, everyone else had really good BBQ...I had milk. 

It was really fun to finally meet the Rhoads family. I had already met the rest of the clan this past summer when I was just a little little baby. I'm getting bigger every day! Case in point—I don't even fit into that adorable onesie above anymore!

Thanks to Heather, Rob, Charlotte, and Emerson for a fun vacation!

xo ian.