A fun playdate in Pennsylvania Saturday, Nov 7 2009 

Uncategorized rowanthefrog 10:02 pm

As you probably know, I am very active in a couple of online communities.  Some of the women on one of my boards decided to have a playdate in PA, a fairly easy drive from me, so Ethan and I hopped in the car and drove to Nina’s house and met up with several wonderful women from my PAL/SM board and all of their babies!  What a treat to get to meet, in person, women who I have been “talking” to online for over two years!  We put the babies in their Halloween costumes, it was extraordinarily cute.

Cute babies in costume are not always happy

Cute babies in costume are not always happy

 

Play day every day Saturday, Nov 7 2009 

Uncategorized rowanthefrog 9:53 pm

This is such a FUN age.  He is such a little comedian.  He is GO GO GO all the time.  Running around the house.  Going from toy to toy to toy.  He has his own complete little language – we understand some of what he is saying, but he is always talking about SOMETHING.  He loves to be tickled.  He loves to snuggle.  He loves to kiss.  He loves to be chased.  He pretty much loves any sort of interaction and will do anything to get it.  Even stick his entire hand in his mouth until he gags violently because he knows it brings me running.  Such the prankster.  Here are just a few pics of Ethan playing around over the past few weeks.

 

Friends=sanity Saturday, Nov 7 2009 

Uncategorized rowanthefrog 9:24 pm

Colleen, Vanessa and I celebrating Vanessa's birthday

People are always asking me, “how do you like New Jersey?”  Often while wrinkling up their nose because, of course, it is NEW JERSEY.  But I have to answer honestly, I like it a lot.  I know there are areas of NJ that aren’t so nice, but I think you could say that of all the states.  But, the best part of our new home has been the friends that I’ve made here.  Never in my wildest dreams did I think that I would have so many friends so quickly, and have made such close friends.  Yet, I have.  Its wonderful to be able to wake up each day, check my calendar and go to any number of playdates hosted by my mom’s group, or call up a friend on the phone and say, “what’s your plan today” and then head over to their house, or they bring their child to mine, or we meet up someplace where the kids can run around.  People also ask me how I like being a stay at home mom, and I can honestly say that I LOVE it – but I attribute that 100% to my friends and my mom’s group.  Because I have things to do EVERY DAY.  We don’t sit around the house, we are always going places and hanging out with people.  And its wonderful.  So today I wanted to say thank you to my wonderful friends here – all of you, you know who you are.