Gaithersburg Gathering

What a wonderful weekend we had visiting the MD Blendermanns!

I can't believe how grown up all the kids are now! We had a great time.

Andrew's premiere performance at Asbury seemed to be a big success. He enjoyed doing it, the folks listening seemed to enjoy hearing it, the kids enjoyed hearing Daddy work.

He made Nana & Opa so proud!

Adam loves being at a hotel and loves the swimming pool even more.

Next time we've got to remember about Montgomery County's no-kids-in-the-hot-tub law. He was a little bummed about that- but got to swim every morning in the cold water pool- followed by a nice hot shower.


Sammy got to swim, too, but generally didn't last as long as Adam did. This worked out because it was just Mom & Sam hanging out in the room post-swim that led to my favorite picture of her to date:

It was lovely to see everyone & we hope to do it again soon. Hopefully we'll make it out to CT or NC SOON because I'm SURE we would barely recognize the kids there, either!

As always we're enjoying each other & having fun (although we're currently in the thick of potty training which is very UNfun.)

We're missing our friends & family far away, but hoping all is well on your end.

More later.

First Day of School & The Beatles!

Well- that pretty much describes the last week at the Chicagoland Blendermann household.

Adam had his first day of school on Tuesday, September 8.

He looked like such a big boy with his Toy Story backpack- all ready to go.

And then he looked so little when we arrived at his big boy school!

HE DID GREAT! First day of school was with Mom, Dad, & Sammy there with him and he had a good time playing with the crayons, toy food (apples & cupcakes were favorites,) and even tried his hand in the sand table (although that experience was short-lived.) He sat nicely on the reading rug just like Mrs. Cullotta told him to & listened to the story of "The Kissing Hand."

Thursday was his first day with NO Mom & Dad. According to the teacher, He was a good boy (albeit a little bit unclear on the concept that Daddy or Mommy would come back AFTER he played at school.) Accoring to Adam, he played with blocks and made new friends (Marissa & Alexa.) We went to the bakery to get some special first day of school butter cookies as a treat & we're looking forward to trying it all again on Tuesday!

As you may or not know (but Andrew was all too aware) Beatles Rockband was released 09/09/09. After dropping hints like BRICKS for the last year and a half- he knew he was getting it for his birthday...and I had every intention of making him wait until October 2!

But I decided that would be mean since he had already waited so long.

It looked like Christmas morning on Wednesday night as Andrew tore into his box and immediately set up the new instruments. Sandy, Mike & their dog, Felon, came over to play and we had a great time.

As I type this, Adam is singing "Yellow Submarine" and "I Saw Her Standing There" alternatingly. We have a new Beatles Fan! Kid's got good taste!

That's pretty much it.

Sam & I are great. No big news- when she cuts a tooth and/or actually goes back to sleeping through the night, I'll be sure to write a nice long celebratory post about that, too!

'Til next time...