Lovely weekend

It’s Sunday night again and we are relaxing after a great weekend spent around the neighborhood. On Saturday we had a few friends over to celebrate Ellis’ birthday and today we went for a bike ride and stopped by another birthday party. Ellis looks so much older in these photos. She’s really becoming a little girl.

Happy 2nd Birthday Ellis!

Can’t believe Ellis is now 2! Erik and I took off of work today to celebrate with her. We spent the morning at the adorable art/cafe/playspace Moomah in Tribeca. Ellis painted a little canvas and had a blast in their “funky forest” room. Mostly she was in complete awe of two four year old girls and tried to copy everything they were doing. So sweet to see her try and jump (or “shump” as Ellis says). She’s still working on the mechanics for shumping!

She is saying so much these days; a lot of two and three word sentences and some intense babble conversations. I love the surprise of not knowing which words she will pick up next. Really looking forward to seeing what great changes her third year will bring. I know there will be tantrums, but as long as Erik and I can keep from throwing tantrums ourselves, we should all be fine.

Molly’s wedding

We traveled to Illinois over the long Labor Day weekend to celebrate Molly and Josh’s wedding and to visit with all of the Carrow family. We had a great time and were happy to sneak in one last free flight with Ellis before her second birthday. Mike flew in from SF and Ellis greeted him by calling him by his name.“Mike” is easy for her to say. She really enjoyed spending time outside, in the pool and was in complete awe of her older cousins. We’ve had a busy few months of traveling combined with the move. Looking forward to a few weekends at home to fully settle into our new apartment and to go through the few leftover boxes I've shoved in a corner!

Quite a week

A move, an earthquake and a hurricane! This has been a crazy week. Thankfully, the two natural disasters were more bark than bite and thankfully we are almost fully settled into our new home, just one floor below our old one. We love it here. The deck we had was wonderful, but giving Ellis her own room is even better. She's adjusted really well. There's more space for her to play and two mirrored closets she's obsessed with. She could dance, make faces, and blow kisses at herself all day. More pictures of the new place soon.

Hidden Harbor Boat Tour

Erik and I continued our anniversary boat ride tradition a few weeks late this year. It was well worth the wait though! The Hidden Harbor Tour was one of our favorites. I had no idea what an exciting world existed between the boroughs with traffic rivaling the BQE and customs rivaling JFK! The best part was that the forecast had called for lightning and rain, but it ended up being a clear, warm night with a spectacular ”sailor's delight” sunset. I can hardly believe we’ve been married for seven years and I really can’t believe we’ll be celebrating ten years as a couple in October.

Also this month...

We enjoyed dinner on the deck, a visit to the newly opened section of the High Line and Ellis and Erik took their first Brooklyn bike ride.

Camping weekend

We managed to join Rein and Christa for 2 nights of their three week camping adventure. We drove up to Rocky Neck State Park in CT. We had a great spot, great weather (for the first 36 hours) and a large beach for Ellis to blissfully dig in the sand. We celebrated Erik’s 33rd birthday and are looking forward to going camping again soon.

More Europe and a move

We’ve been home from Holland exactly a month, but I didn’t want to forget to post these great photos from our trip. It was wonderful to get both of our families together. Shortly after arriving home, our downstairs neighbor popped by to let us know they were moving our west. We’ve been hoping to move down since I was pregnant and can’t wait for Ellis to have her own room. We start moving in less than a week!

Bubbles

Caught this sweet moment of Ellis and Cedric blowing a few bubbles.