Visitors

We're on week 2 in Vermont and time is flying. We still have a few stray boxes and a few things to hang, but we're pretty settled. The girls are having a blast and getting accustomed to Vermont, which includes things like playing with worms in our neighbor's garden yesterday, with their 2.5 year old girl Lydia. Oh, what a long way we are from Boston!

Erin was here all week last week and took the girls on several adventures, but I don't have any pictures. :( Thank you for the great visit Erin!

Grandpa Tom is here this week, serving the dual purpose of babysitter and house fixer-upper. He's measuring a cabinet for new shelves as I sit and type! He's also our resident photographer, since I've been neglecting those duties.

These two pictures are actually from before the move, but I thought they were worth posting.

Hailey after a messy project:


Riley's angel face (she apparently wasn't having a terrible two tantrum at that very moment).


Grandpa took them to Shelburne Farm yesterday, where we went in July. I think this will be a regular spot for us.



Hard at work:


Pooped on the hay ride out:


The girls really are doing great and loving Vermont. I have to say how proud I am of Riley too. The first night we were here, we discovered that she had chewed big holes in both of her pacifiers, and decided that was the end of pacifier use. She has tried several future-lawyer caliber negotiating tactics to try to get them back, but she has done really, really well without it! Two huge changes for a toddler in one week - as great as she is doing now, I'm sure I'll pay for it in therapy bills later. (In case you thought we were tormenting one girl and not the other, Hailey voluntarily ditched the pacifier at about 4 months old and never looked back.)