Back to School

On Monday, Aaron and Helena stared Preschool at Goodwin School in Old Saybrook, the same school where Stacie teaches. Unfortunately Aaron had an ear infection and was not able to attend the very first day, but by Tuesday he was ready. Aaron and Helena were so excited and could barely contain their excitement at the end of the day!

Ready for school

Aaron, feeling much better, ready for his first day

Helena, ready for her first day of school

Helena fell asleep on the way home, clutching her communication journal

Landyn's First Birthday

Aaron, Helena and Natalie's cousin, Landyn, turned one this past weekend. The kids all had lots of fun playing outside together and Landyn received lots of great toys for his first birthday.

Landyn's shirt says "Does this shirt make me look 1?"

Cousin Marshall was toddling everywhere!

Aaron and Helena enjoy their cupcakes

Aaron, Ainsley and Helena deep in conversation

Watching the gift opening. The boys are in constant motion and the girls just sit back and relax

Natalie gets a ride from Daddy

Birthday Boy with his eye on his cupcake!

Rainy Day Fun

Scott and I took the kids to the Children's Museum in West Hartford last Sunday. It was a rainy day and the kids loved moving around as they looked at all of the reptiles and played with all of the exhibits. A favorite was the turtles and the lego race cars!

Helena pretends to be a turtle

Giant Lite-Brite

Aaron LOVED making his Lego car and racing with the other kids

Birthday Fun

Last week, we began our month of birthday celebrations. First up was Aaron and Helena's cousin, Lexi. It was a fantastic afternoon of fun! Aaron and Helena loved the water slide and we actually had to drag them off at the end of the afternoon.

Aaron had no fear! He loved every minute!

It took Aaron and Helena a few tries to get the hang of climbing up the stairs, but once they got the hang of it, they were unstoppable!

The look of determination!

Let the fun begin!

Natalie had a lot of fun socializing too!

Helena and Ainsley sliding together

Cousins having fun! Helena, Julian, Aaron and Ainsley

The birthday girl, six years old!

Natalie - 7 months

Natalie is now seven months old and she is changing every day. She now strings many different sounds together to let us know she is "talking" to us. She has two teeth and is getting better and picking up objects with her fingers. She likes to hear music and has become very ticklish!

Summer Photos

We took Aaron, Helena and Natalie to have their photos taken this past weekend. We weren't sure what to expect, but all of the kids did great, and we have fantastic photos to prove it. It was hard to decide which photos to post!

Helena and Aaron - 3 years old, Natalie - 6 months old

Sisters

Aaron with his little sister

At one point, Aaron and Helena started to be silly with one another, it was so neat that it was caught on camera too!

Cape Cod

We took the kids back to Cape Cod this summer to visit Wellfleet, where Stacie visited frequently with her family as a child. This year we went with Stacie's sister Jill and her family, her parents and brother Mike and his family. All of the kids had a great time exploring in the sand and surf and we all took back many special memories of the time we shared together.

View of the boats at the Wellfleet Pier from Mayo Beach

Jetty at Indian Neck Beach

Cousins having fun

Anna bringing water for the sand castles

Maggie plays in the sand

Aaron loved having Julian here so they could do "boy things"

Daddy and Natalie

Aaron and Julian sit in a hole they dug together

Helena tries out her new net. There were lots of small fish swimming in the shallow waters as the tide went out.

Maggie, Lexi, Helena, Anna and Aaron pose with their castle

Getting ready to go Sqaure Dancing. This was as excited as Aaron got for the event. He later reported that he didn't like Square Dancing because "they didn't let me dance in a square, just a circle!"

Lexi and Helena

Happy Girl!

The Anderson Bathing Beauties

"Mommy, take a picture of me running in the water!"

Aunt Cathy was always ready and willing to make castles in the sand

Aaron spent a great deal of time playing with his boat in the water

"Look at what we found Mommy! Can we take them home?"

Aaron poses on a small rock as the tide was going out

Helena loved picking up the small fish she caught in her net. She was very careful and was happy to return them to their home after a short time in her bucket.

Helena "making a cake"