Goodbye Paci!!!

 Over the last 3 1/2 years I never thought this day would come.  Over the last couple of days, as we have been plotting the end of paci, I have been so nervous.  We came home from NY and Justin went from room to room finding paci's and putting each in a box.  When we found them all, Seth wrote on the box "For Baby Boys - from Justin."  We sang a goodbye paci song and marched the box to the front step for the mailman (I grabbed it later).  And that was it!  He was so amazing and brave.  He went to sleep fine.  Today he shed a few tears when he got into the car and realized paci was gone.  But he pulled it together.  We are so proud of you Justin!  We celebrated tonight with a goodbye paci party ~ pizza, cupcakes and ice cream.  I felt that after giving up his most prized possession he should get something more than a cupcake.  We will be visiting the lego store this weekend.

Trip to NY

Another great visit to Grandma and Pa's.  Jerald and I had an amazing 24 hours of fun in NYC seeing friends, eating and seeing Once (great show!) while Grandma and Pa took care of the three-musketeers.  BIG THANK YOU!!!

They had so much fun.  But saved the big pool fun with Grandma's BFF Susan for Monday when Jerald and I could join in.  This is hands down the best pool ever!!!  From the structure in the shallow end, to the huge swimming area and the giant water slide.... simply awesome!  Thanks SUSAN!!!

We had so much fun with Grandma and Pa - a quick visit from Uncle Joshy and Aunt Shir and then we got to have a lovely visit with Great-Gram on the way back.  What a wonderful way to end the summer!

Neighbors!

We are so excited that good friends of ours and their three boys moved to the other end of our block.  Here are my boys walking over to their house for the bris of the newest.

Cape Cod 2012 ~ other fun

Even though we loved being in the pool and at the beach - we had a lot of other fun on dry land!  Eating yummy food at the house (thanks Aunt Shir!), pirate golf, Cape Cod baseball league, and walking around Hyannis.  A huge thanks to Grandma and Pa for another wonderful week full of laughs, snuggles and amazing memories!!!

Cape Cod 2012 ~ the beach

 What could compare to our own pool?  An almost private beautiful beach!  A 2 minute drive led us to this beautiful beach.  Great waves, shells and soft sand.  Justin and Ezra definitely preferred the pool - but the beach was a nice change and a ton of fun!

Cape Cod 2012 ~ the pool

What a wonderful week we had in Cape Cod!!!  The weather was gorgeous, our new rental house was amazing...we had so many laughs, lots of swims, hugs and wonderful memories.  I didn't divide the pictures by each day - we spent most of our time in our own pool (I would say 80% of the time).  So here are a ton of pictures of us enjoying that beautiful pool.  My favorite was the outdoor shower (which the boys called the Pee shower - to Pa's chagrin).