My Gangstas

I'm haning with my boys this weekend. Daddy had some friends from college down to the beach this weekend. Josh and Jenn, who live in Richmond, and Benny and Jenny who live in Virginia Beach, converged on the Outer Banks this weekend. Uncle Benny posed for a Boyz in the Hood shot with Ryan and Brendan.  I haven't taken many pictures so far this weekend, but I'll try and take a few more and get them posted with everyone. I have some down time, it's half time with Maryland, Go Pack!

My Silly Parents

M&D left me with MeMe on Saturday evening and went to a Halloween party. Daddy has this strange idea that he looks like Patrick Swayze, so they went as Dirty Dancing.  I'll let you be the judge of that. Costumes=ok, but Daddy, I think you're getting a little old to pull it off. Oh, and the picture of me in the box, nothing to do with Halloween, just thought you'd like to see a cute picture of me.

 

My Pumpkins

So Uncle Eliot and Aunt Liz went out to California for a vacation. They brought back lots of neat stuff, but the best thing they brought was a hand-knit pumpkin watch-cap for me. I feel like I could be a ninja or a cat burglar, except well, it's orange, not so stealth. Anyway, that prodded M&D to take me to the pumpkin patch. So we drove out to Mt. Olympus Berry Farm, daddy's work partner Jim's farm. People always want to confuse it with the Ashland Berry Farm, but did you know that at ABF they mostly don't even grow their own pumpkins? Just do better marketing I guess. Anyway, they had some really huge pumpkins, and it was like animal planet there were so many doggies and kitties roaming around. Note to M&D, I want a pet! It was fun to see Jim and Boo, and M&D bought a pumpkin which Daddy says he's going to help me carve soon.

My Beach Walk

Since it was a glorious sunny day here in Florida today, M&D took me out for my favorite, a walk along the beach. They packaged me into my Baby Bjorn to hit the sand. Daddy started out walking me, but being the big, almost 20 lb. girl that I am, they switched up mid walk to ease up the burden. In weight loss commercials these days, they always show the before and after pictures, about how Jenny Craig's Nutri-Watchers have helped someone get from here to there. My before and after pictures are slightly different, walk start: awake and alert; walk end: lifeless, sleeping rag doll. That's how M&D know when I've enjoyed a walk.

My Reward

I said yesterday that it rained a lot of the day here. But I just wanted to mention how I got paid back for being a very good girl indoors most of the day. M&D took me to dinner with Mommy's work friends Agnes and Kelley. As you can see, Kelley made good eyes at me and I certainly returned the attention in kind. But back to my reward, on the way to dinner, we were given a rainbow to look at out over the ocean. I guess that's what I get for having endured a rainy day on vacation.

My Ft. Lauderdale

Every year, Mommy gets to come down to Florida on VCU's dime, and every year Daddy has chosen to bum along. Last year we stayed in Miami, I don't remember much of it because I was in Mommy's tummy at the time, but I do remember that she shared some really yummy food with me. Mommy has been down here since Monday, but Daddy and I flew down to join her yesterday. She had to work all day today, so it's been me and Daddy vs. the world. It was thunderstorming when we woke up, but cleared up enough for us to walk out to get lunch. We waited the requisite hour after eating and he took me swimming. It wasn't a very baby-friendly hotel pool, but we made do in the chilly water. Then we sat in the sun for a couple of minutes, but not for too long as I refused to keep my hat on my head and Daddy didn't want me to get burned. As you can see, I had enough fun that I crashed, but I wanted to show you the view that I woke up to this morning in my Pack n' Play.

My Twin Beach Weekend

M&D's friends Abby and Erik joined us at the beach this weekend and brought their twin girls Riley and Josie. They are about a year older than me and I love having big girls to watch and learn from. Plus, they have great toys that they are happy to share with me. We have spent a lot of time playing as you can see. First in the house they let me play with their Legos. Then we drove to Corolla so Daddy could feel tough taking his 4X4 on the beach. Daddy parked on the beach so that we could use our beach toys. Again the nice girls shared and let me chew on one of their shovels. I hope that I am this nice to littler people when I get big.

My Window Curtain

Mommy informs me that I got confused. This is actually Kelley Curtin not my window curtain. Anyway, Kelley is a friend of mommy's from college. She recruits for a college in Boston like mommy does for VCU. She had a recruitment trip to Richmond to meet students from VCU, so she came to meet me the other night. She held me an cooed to me even though I could tell that babies make her nervous. She seemed to do pretty well though. She said she might be moving back closer to Richmond, maybe I'll get to see her again in the near future.