Our morning

We had nothing planned this morning, but the little stinkers were just so cute so we snapped a few adorable pictures.

Our smiling little ones playing on the bed together.

Our future slugger-little Miss Adelyn.

Dr. Blake and Patient Addie with Daddy's stethoscope.
(notice who is sitting up all by herself)

Hiding Place

Ssshhh...Blake has a new secret hiding place, as he likes to put it! When mommy showers in the morning, Blake plays on our bed under the covers. Little did I know what was hiding under there with him. As we crawled into bed that night, we discovered a baseball and a golf club-shaft and head in two separate pieces to our surprise under the covers!!! Only in our house would there be sports paraphernalia in bed.

Publish Post

Top of The Met

On top of The Metropolitan Museum of Art is a Rooftop Cafe and Bar. There are spectacular views of the city and Central Park. This is something I have always wanted to do since we have lived here. Now that we have only one month left, we are quickly trying to finish up all of the must-see/do before we leave. It was a perfect night to check this off the list!

More Smiley

This is the gorgeous smile I am so blessed to see all day, every day!!!

Gone, But Haven't Forgotten

I have been removed from our blog for quite a while...this is the first weekend in about four weeks that we haven't been out of town and had a big event going on. Although we have had an amazing month, we have also experienced a very sad loss.

Our crazy family-filled event began with a special day for our baby girl, Adelyn's Baptism. Thank you to everyone for making the journey to St. Patrick's Cathedral to share this special day for Addie. And a big special thank you to her godparents, Aunt Christine and Uncle Drew.

The next weekend was Amanda's Bridal Shower in Boston. It was such a beautiful time with friends and family. Amanda was such a gorgeous bride-to-be. My little Addie would not take a bottle, which prevented me from joining the girls for the Bachelorette Party...but that's okay, because I would do anything for my little ones and I know my little sister still had the time of her life (can't wait to see the pole-dancing video)! Look out Bermuda, we will be there in one month for the big day.

We then headed south to say our goodbyes to Pop Pop. This was such a difficult time for our family, but it was so comforting to all be together and remember so many special memories. Our hearts now have a hole with the loss of our beloved Pop Pop (Daryl's father). Thank you for being such a wonderful grandfather, father, friend, road trip warrior, doctor, scientist, and sports enthusiast! We miss and love you so very much!

Blake, Daddy and Pop Pop holding hands

Sweet Home Alabama...we had just a few extra days left to go look for our future home. The four of us had a whirlwind trip to Birmingham. In two days time we viewed about fifteen homes with a toddler and baby, it was a bit challenging at time, but overall our little ones were troopers. After a VERY long two days and many hours of deliberation, we have finally decided on the last house we viewed. We are SO excited for our upcoming move.

We then headed home with a minor detour up to Connecticut for Laila's (Daryl's niece) First Communion and we also celebrated Mother's Day together. There were five very special mothers there and we were each blessed with having our beautiful families with us. Thank you Daryl for the delicious truffles that were gone in less than three days!

The cousins playing outside the church together

A yummy Mother's Day meal with lots of great mothers

Now on the horizon we have Daryl's graduation from Residency, our big move way down south and Amanda and Tony's wedding...all in the next five weeks. WOW!

Our happy family

I Love You Brother

The picture says it all!!!


Blake is sporting his new haircut, oh so handsome, and Addie is so happy because she rolled over for the first time this weekend.

Blake's Fun Day

Another gorgeous day in the big city and we took full advantage. First we strolled over to Central Park with lots of friends and enjoyed time at the children's zoo. Blake didn't really get too friendly with the animals, but instead climbed all over the fun "toys" at the zoo.
Then we took a break and had a little lunch, and then 4 2-year-olds were off to rock-climb. It was 4 little ones and only 2 mommies (the other mommies had to stay down to watch all 0f the babies in the strollers who can't rock climb yet). Due to the kids outnumbering the big people, we thought it was best to go somewhere a little less scary and stressful. So we headed to the playground nearby with the giant slide and sandbox and they were all just as happy playing there.

Nap time was approaching so home we headed, but on the way, I bought Blake a strawberry popsicle. Although he enjoyed it, his hand couldn't say the same...as he held the popsicle stick in his hand, the popsicle itself was also resting right on his hand. When we were one block from the house, he started really crying...his poor little hand got a tinge of frost bite. Mommy felt AWFUL! It was fire engine red, a little swollen and whitish too. Luckily with some warm water when we came home, it was a little better, but still very red. Today it seems to be getting better. Who knew a popsicle could be so dangerous, yikes! Nap time was a good break, then we took a stroll around the block. I held Addie in the Baby Bjorn facing forward for the first time while Blake rode his bicycle the whole way, all by himself! Unbelievable peddling!

Then the highlight of the day came...Daddy took Blake to his second UNC Tarheel basketball game at Madison Square Garden. Although the outcome was not as we had hoped for, the boys had so much fun together. They had front row seats too.

Bye Bye Hair...

Baby Addie is losing her hair. It happened almost suddenly this past week. She woke up with a lot less hair on the sides along with pinkeye in both eyes about four days ago. What happened to my little beauty, she is changing so quickly!?!? We took her to the doctor and got her pinkeye under control but continue to find lots of little black Addie hairs all over the place. Now we get to sit and wonder what color her hair will come back as.

Back from France

Daryl returned from his trip to France last week and had a wonderful time. He spent about 10 days working with a doctor in Annecy, France. He missed us terribly (as expected) but made the most of his short stay over there.
Annecy is located on a beautiful lake at the bottom of the Alps on the France-Switzerland border and is a gorgeous little town.

A Beautiful Day

The sun was shining and everyone in NYC was out enjoying the beautiful day in the park. Auntie Amanda came to visit us while Daddy was in France this past weekend and we had such an enjoyable time with her on a most picturesque day.
We did not have a digital camera, so to capture our fun we had to settle for disposable cameras, hence the poor picture quality. Despite this very minor setback, we were still able to snap a few cute photos of our fun day.