We went Friday afternoon up to northern New Jersey to camp and explore three different parks including High Point, Appalachian trail and some swimming holes! It was perfect weather and boy, is this state beautiful. We also took a tour of the Delaware water gap from the Jersey side but crossed over into NY briefly during the cruise. At the end of this week, we high tail it down to the Indiana lake house! Weeee, last days of summer fun!!!
We have been busy in bursts while having some time to recover. In general we are enjoying this tail end of summer. The treehouse datty returned, then left and returned again doing some work down in Nashville. While he was away we had a spontaneous visit from our Hawaiian friend who just happens to be visiting NY family. She came for just one night but it’s always fun to play host. We polished off the last of the summer sangria and enjoyed a late evening of girl time once the kiddo was off in dreamland. Hagan and I followed that up with my very first 4H fair experience. We met some friends, enjoyed every sweet thing that was offered such as cotton candy, funnel cake, ice cream. Hagan got to operate a back ho and pretty much didn’t want to do anything else after that. We also enjoyed larger than life robots, petted some cows and bunnies and watched RC cars and other racing sports until we were just pooped. Datty is home now and we will likely try to squeeze a camping trip in before we run down to Indiana for the Labor Day weekend… For 3 yr old celebrations with family.
More, more, more!!! Squeezing the life out of summer!!!
My bestie from grad school came to visit a week ago after attending an east coast meeting. It was incredibly nice to catch up and be social in a deep and cozy way. We had a girl outing in Lambertville with a philly friend and followed it up with a family outing to a Princeton peach festival full of animals, peach food and peach wine. It all felt absolutely divine. We spent the week catching up on some sleep after such a big weekend. This last weekend we kept it mellow, set out to discover Hopewell, an absolute gem of a quaint town. And did the usual weekend chores. SX left this morn to Nashville for the week on another tree adventure. So, this weekend might have to be a philly adventure for a dash of socializing…
We are all home playing house and enjoying each other while the summer gets thick with humid heat. I love it even if it makes falling asleep a challenge. Hagan has been healthy as of late for which I am ever grateful. He loves his daycare and I could not be happier.
We made a trip into New Hope last weekend to visit friends and lounge poolside after a lunch date in Philly to meet up with another east coast (Boston) Seattlelite. It was a big weekend… But perhaps this weekend will be bigger since my bestie from grad school is making a visit. We will be catching up over ice cold sangria, boutique shopping in New Hope and having girlie time with a Philly friend. I’m terribly excited.
I returned from Philly (one picture from my dorm room on the 21st floor!), finally and the treehouser is in Nebraska leaving us to play house by ourselves. Hagan seemed healthy all weekend and I carted him around in the bike trailer from park to park. It was a good kind of exhaustion for me but did not wear out the toddler energy so much. By Tuesday, Hagan got sick again with a small tummy bug. He seems to be fine now while Walnut picked up the ick with an infection… I will be happy when we can have some consecutive weeks of health. I am quite done with all this sickness. I have no plans for the weekend… Perhaps I should go work on that…..
Its been a couple weeks since my last post… To start, the Datty returned home and the wee Zenobia fan is reunited again! Then the mommy went to Philly for a conference all last week and will head out again this week to UPENN for some more classes. Hagan has been a trouper with daycare since he loves the experience but keeps getting kicked down with random viruses… A cold, a tummy bug, twice with pink eye and now foot and mouth. I’m quite ready for the poor guy to be his happy, healthy self. I’m told this is all very normal but am pretty frustrated at watching him sweat into a ball of pathetic toddler on the couch. We weren’t able to manage an outing for the 4th so we piled into a cuddle puddle and watched movies instead.
Uncle Kris came for a quick visit which was really nice and the boys played synchronized napping on the couch… For hours! Datty leaves this week for Nebraska while Hagan and I hunker down into the Jersey warmth.
Hagan and I recovered from a terrible cold virus last week just in time to cough our way up to visit the Datty. During the recovery process, I explored a neighborhood trail of amazing lush greenery and oodles of water. It seemed just the thing for healing my poor head cold. By the time we made it to New York, Hagan and I were in good spirits even with the lingering cough. The crew decided to put a camera on us despite our disheveled appearance so you might see a glimpse of us someday on the show. Eeeeeep! Other than that we had a relaxing time and returned to start Hagan at his exciting new Daycare!!! He loves it already!!!
Friday’s are half days in the summer at my work so, I headed out early, went to the gym, went to see Mad Max, went home to shower and pack, finally picking up Hagan at the usual evening time. We headed straight up to the house of treehousers for Datty reunion, fun, relaxation, adventure. The treehousers worked a solid Saturday leaving us to find our own fun. We visited the build and went to a park with relaxation and kicking around a ball as primary goals. Then, Sunday the treehousers went to investigate the city while the Zenobias went to Nyack, NY for perusing, park playing and lunch. Hagan and I returned home at a modest hour so could finish laundry and prep for the work week… Only to have Hagan catch a cold which means I’m working from home today. Poor kiddo.
Ps. Datty got to get stitches this week… The Eagle Scout was cutting towards himself.
Treehouser Datty was briefly reunited with the fam and we made the most of it with root beer shakes and hiking in what Jersey considers to be a mountain range – perhaps not a mountain in our PNW eyes but certainly utterly breathtaking. Hagan hiked three miles before giving up! I could not be more impressed! And boy was he pooped!! It was so good. We dropped off the Treehouser in southern NY just an hour and a half north of us. We will be joining up with him over the next few weekends in the beautiful rental house. Like a fancy getaway. Hagan is no longer upset about the daycare drop off and instead just waves goodbye with the sweetest ‘Biiiiiiiiiii’. I can only hope that when we put him in the permenant daycare on the 15th he will enjoy it equally or more…
The treehouser is off again so Hagan and I have been flying solo this time being different in that Hagan is going to daycare instead of having nanny Hayley with us. Hagan LOVES daycare and hates to leave every evening which makes the drop off tears a little less heartbreaking. We enjoyed a long and relaxing Memorial Day with an excursion to Lambertsville for the Golden Nugget flea market with philly friend, Olivia. We will finish up this week with Treehouser in arms only to send him right out again.
