So many pictures, so little time!

The weather here has certainly not been great lately, but we've done our best to still get out on the weekends and enjoy the outdoors and some family time. Last weekend we hung out in downtown beverly and went to an art fair & walked along the beach and that. It was a nice day. That was last saturday...sunday it rained all day. This weekend was fun too. Saturday we went to Newburyport and did their open gallery tours. Free food and wine...need I say more? They have a cute playground there too that Kaelyn really enjoyed. Today we went to the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem. We used the passes the library loans out...what a great program! You can reserve passes for pretty much any worthwhile museum in the area. I got passes reserved for the zoo in a couple of weeks...it gets us in free! Can't beat that - I just hope the weather works out. Next weekend we're still debating if we want to go to the Boston Pops 4th of July celebration - we may do the 3rd instead. You still get the music, just no fireworks which I'm sure would scare Kaelyn anyways. However, all the crowds may scare us all.

These are from today. Do you notice our late June winter-like clothing? This is ridiculous...but we insisted on eating outdoors & defying the weather. We're rebels. It was high 60's and dreary.

I thought these monkeys were cool at the Peabody Essex Museum. I was getting strange looks though. Can you find me?

Kaelyn dressing herself in (clean) laundry. It allowed me to eat my lunch in peace, so I didn't really care. She kept putting my underwear over her head.

What a look.

Saturday we went to Newburyport for the open gallery tours. We got free food & wine, and Kaelyn got to play on the playground. A great day for all.

Kaelyn spent the whole time at the park climbing UP the slide.

Every now and then she'd go down too.

I love this picture.
This one's a cutie too.
Her and another little girl were racing up the slide. They both had the same fascination with it.

Kaelyn still puts everything in her mouth. This is the lid to her pots and pans set. She just kept crawling all around with it looking like a wierdo...that's why we love her!
Just chillin out with a lid sticking out of her mouth.
" What are YOU looking at?"
Last weekend we hung out in downtown Beverly for most of the day. We had some gelato here while Kaelyn napped.
These are out of order. This was the day my mom got into town...we were in Marblehead checking out fort Sewell.




Here's the progression of Kaelyn climbing up on the kitchen table. Notice how Barry gets pictures of the whole thing, proving that he did nothing to stop it. This is her new "naughty" face.
Does anyone notice me up here yet?

Well, since I'm here I might as well redecorate. I don't like these placemats here.
I'll just toss them on the floor. No one will care. Viola!

When Kaelyn doesn't want to listen anymore, she just puts on her headphones.

We had just brought this box in, and next thing I know she's on top of it and ripping off all the tape. When did she turn into a little monkey?

I'm just kickin back after a tough day...underneath the dining room table.

She repeated this cycle over and over!

Sorry this is sideways...but it's really cute.

catching up again

You know, if I just posted more often, it wouldn't be such a daunting task when I finally sit down to do this. But you know me, big procrastinator. Anyways, here are a bunch of pictures that are fairly recent...all from the past couple of weeks. I'm still missing florida pictures because I waited so long to post them, barry has now uploaded them onto smugmug & they're no longer on our camera. So, to check those out, go to our smugmug account. There's some really great pictures of us on the beach hanging out with kaelyn, and some where she's covered in sand - I'll have to put them on here at some point.

Better watch that door, now she knows how to crawl out of the house!

I put this picture on here just to compare what she looked like right around this time last year. What a difference! Man, I WISH I could just leave her on the bed in the bumbo seat again. I didn't know how good I had it.

On her 16 month birthday, she got a shiny new "cozy coupe". Already on the phone & behind the wheel...figures.

who should I call?

Barry & Jon redid the inside of our garage. It had some mildew issues & we were told to spray it down top to bottom with bleach. This is Barry getting ready to tackle that.

Wow, this is such a hot look.

In true redneck fashion, we put our sofa out on the corner to sell it (it had been in the garage!). It sold in a few hours - what should I put out there next? So much to choose from.

Remember when I said Barry loves to spackle. Case in point.

She's got the keys, but didn't have a car to go with them yet...now she does.


She wanted to pretty up grandpa with her lipstick.

She found someone else to do a makeover on. I love this! Notice her bracelets too and her purse. Yes, I'm really pushing the gender roles.

These pictures are from mother's day. We went to rockport for the day & had a great time.

Crawling around rockport. Like her bracelet?

We were at a birthday last weekend at the park & it rained a little bit. But when it was over, this is what we saw. It was so beautiful. You can't really make it out here, but the rainbow repeated several times & we could see both ends of it. Very cool. There was a leprechan too...but no gold.

Kaelyn in her backpack. She actually likes this thing...for now.

At wingersheek beach.


Russell Orchards. No that's not a beer, it's cider. No, this was not intended to hold my weight.

Wishing it was a beer. Where's that leprechan?

This is the first time she ate from a fork. I just put food on it & she put it right in her mouth like she had done it a hundred times before. She's a quick study.

Behind the wheel of her new car for the first time.

The weather was great today, even though our beach pictures make it look like we're freezing or something. It was just overcast & it was definitely cooler down by the water...but we were able to eat lunch outside & enjoy much of the day. Kaelyn made her usual mess in the sand, but she had lots of fun. She came home & took a super long nap. She woke up quite unhappy & I'm pretty sure it's because her diaper was literally full of huge, coarse sand. Poor thing. We've been working a whole lot on the house. Barry's parents have been helping us get the yard in order & watch Kaelyn while I paint the kitchen. I finished edging & trimwork today, so hopefully there will be color up in the next day or so. I'll post more pictures as I make progress. Barry has been working his parents to the bone. Our yard looks great - then Barry had Jon clean the gutters out & clean our shed, while Merrily scraped our back door which was rotting. They'll never want to come back!

Even though this is blurry I thought it was cute. Do you like her piggy pajamas?

She has been loving this teddy lately. It's as big as her!

Lazy Saturday morning just hanging out & playing.

Giant baby attacks Gloucester...eats all houses in sight.

Giant baby seems to have a weakness...does not like to get her hands dirty. Could this be her kryptonite? I have no clue how to spell that.

Here's the kitchen before painting, but after patching up many, many holes. Barry loves patching holes & sanding. It's super annoying. Everytime I get this kitchen cleaned up so that Kaelyn won't get into it, he sands more and it spreads this find RED powder everywhere from the walls...step away from the sander or I will seriously hurt you!

I could never remodel a kitchen. I can barely handle this mess for a few days.

Here's what it looks like today after I primed. Looking good. Unfortunately, now we're wondering if we should've picked something lighter. Oh well, color is a good thing. Hopefully.

You'll see there's still red in the other part of the kitchen. I can only handle one half of the kitchen at once. The walls and trim needed too much repair to do it all at the same time. Divide & conquer was our theory.

The other night Kaelyn just went bonkers like she was hopped up on caffeine. She was crawling back & forth at top speed, screaming (happily) & going all crazy baby. I only got a few seconds of it because my camera ran out of batteries. You'll get the idea though.

This was from tonight. She is such a show off. If you keep clapping for her, she'll just keep doing the same thing over & over. She was quite proud of herself for standing up.

some new stuff

Here are some easter pictures & Kaelyn showing off some of her new almost walking moves. I think she'll be walking in no time at all - I'm not in any big hurry. Although, the beach has been challenging because she gets so messy crawling around. If she were walking it would be kind of nice because I could put her down in more places & not worry so much about her hands getting gross. I have totally bypassed all of our florida pictures from last month - I'll have to get those on here later because there are lots of good ones.


We went to Good Harbor beach today to enjoy the gorgeous weather. It was supposed to hit 80 degrees today, but I don't know if it actually did. It definitely got to 75 though.

She was really making quite a mess in the wet sand where the tide went out. But the ground was more solid there and easier for her to get around.

Jon drew a bunny in the sand for Kaelyn.

These are the corner pads for our coffee table so kaelyn won't hit her head - you can see how useful they are. They were stuck to the table corners, but she just rips them off. Lovely.

Something is wrong with this picture.

Yo, what up?

Getting sleepy. She woke up early from her nap, but was still tired and wouldn't let me put her down. She's so heavy I have a hard time carrying her for long periods of time. This sling actually hurts my back more though I think.

This was easter sunday at brunch.

I brought her easter eggs filled with cheerios to keep her occupied & put them in her little purse. That was her easter basket.

Last night we were helping Kaelyn practice standing up on her own. She did pretty good.

Today she walked for a super long time with us holding her hands. It was very cute.