East Coast Trip

We're back! We had a wonderful time with friends and family, but we are happy to be home to our house, our routine, and especially our daddy. But we did want to share some more pictures from all of our adventures, and to say we miss everyone we saw very much. It went by too quickly, as always.

We spent an afternoon at Longwood Gardens, and while Sabine was underwhelmed with the beautiful gardens and flowers



she perked right up when we got to the kids' area. Much of the appeal was all of the fun water features that she could stick her hands in.

Sabine also met a lot of new friends on this trip.

With Miss S and her daddy, who happens to be an old childhood friend of mommy's.

Being silly with Miss E, whose mommy is also a friend of mine. E was kind enough to show off her new walking skeelz while we were there.

And, of course, P, who was kind enough to let us stay with her and share her toys (and new big girl bed!) for most of our trip.

We visited Great-Grandmom (or "GREAT!" as Sabine calls her) several times







And then would often head to Great Aunt Betsy and Uncle Butch's house for dinner and outdoor time.



For the Memorial Day weekend we went to see family in Virginia. It was second cousin C's birthday, so we got to celebrate with her. Fortunately C is very attentive to her young relative.

And even more fortunately, she shared her chocolate cake. Sabine is kind of in love with her.




Burning off cake energy in the yard. Unfortunately the camera focused on the flowers instead of the kiddos, but you get the idea. They had a lot of fun, and Sabine now loves to "RUN FAST!"

Trying to push A in the wheelbarrow.

Sitting in a rocking chair that has survived many generations. Somewhere there is a picture of mommy in this chair when she was about Sabine's age. I'll have to see if I can dig it up.

Checking out Aunt Judy's pictures. She's pretty good with a camera.

It was a really fun trip, but by the end Sabine was definitely worn out. She was just exhausted, and needed more down-time than we were really able to take. We took a break on Tuesday afternoon to just watch some Baby Signing Time (Sabine's favorite video) in our room.

As I said, it was time to come home, and we're happy to be back, but we miss our family and friends so much. Can't wait to see you all again!