Cape Cod, I love you

and I miss you. This heat is really making me miss the beautiful Northeast weather. We had a great time in Cape Cod. It was the girls first time to fly and it actually went really well, besides a few bumps in the road in the beginning. The morning of the trip to fly out for Boston we overslept and awoke only 20 minutes before our cab arrived. We got to the airport in time and then juggled our way through hoops in security with two girls, three bags, carseats and a stroller. The real worry was how the girls were going to adjust to flying.  Caroline, whom I was carrying, began to scream right as I stepped onto the plane. You should have seen the looks from people as we walked to our seats. I was a bit frantic but Andrew was totally calm. His reaction was, "Oh well, we won't ever see these people again." Very true but I still couldn't relax. I started feeding her and she calmed right down. But just as the plane was taking off, she had an explosion.. I picked the perfect day to wear white pants. Poop was up Caroline's back, up her front, down her legs...you would have thought she was not wearing a diaper at all! I looked at Andrew and asked him what were we thinking!   Things eventually settled out over the layover in Dallas and remaining flight. The flights home went really well, no crying babies at all!

 On the airplane



This is how we rolled into Chatham...Caroline had pooped through all of her extra outfits so she was naked.

We stayed in Chatham on the Cape. It was wonderful. It is about an hour and a half drive from Boston...well worth it though. It's a quintessential New England beach town....very small, quaint, casual. I was surprised at how well the girls did. We were able to keep them on their schedule for the most part. I think it helped that we rented a house and were not staying in a hotel. Andrew's parents drove down from their home in Vermont and met us. I'll let the pictures show how beautiful it is...

Charlotte and  Mommy

Caroline and LaLee

Love how the boats stay out in the water. They take these small boats into shore.

Of course Caroline pooped on her bathing suit right when we got to the beach.

The water there is cold, around 60 to 65 degrees. Being from Texas, that was way too cold for us. But the weather was so beautiful, anywhere from 75 to 85 degrees during the day with a nice coastal breeze that you never got too hot. At night it would get down to around 68-70.

The town at the very tip end of the Cape is Provincetown. It was about 20 miles from us but an hour drive since you go through so many little towns along the way. We drove up there one day when Andrew's parent's friends from Vermont came down to stay for a couple of days. We stopped at this beautiful little restaurant on the water for lunch. Here was the view..

Provincetown was quite different than I expected. We thought it would be this tiny, less traveled town since it is so far to get to. Well, we were wrong. It ended up being this very crowded, popular, eclectic and quite a gay community town..

but still beautiful with this view from the outside restaurant we were at

More fun pics from the trip

We frequented this hotel restaurant right on the beach

Andrew, Charlotte, LaLee, Caroline

Daddy and Charlotte

 I was in love with the hydrangeas. They were so beautiful there.

LaLee, Caroline, Daddy, Charlotte, Mommy

Toto and Caroline

Caroline and Mommy

Daddy, Caroline, Charlotte, Mommy

Daddy and Caroline

Toto cooking out in the rain.

It rained two nights while we were there. We slept with the windows opened and listened to the rain.

Only we would make salsa and take it to the beach!

The last full day we were there a cold front moved in and it never got above 68 degrees. It was wonderful. I wouldn't have cared if it had snowed! We bundled the girls up and sat outside on the patio of the Chatham Bars Inn for drinks.

Mommy and Caroline

LaLee and Charlotte

I know it's funny to say but I do think the girls enjoyed the trip. Probably because they love to be outside and since the weather was so nice, we were outside most of the trip.

Cape Cod, I will be back next year to visit you.

4 Months

My little babies are now four months old! I feel like they are growing into big babies now and I kind of want them to stop.

Caroline (left) looking at Charlotte (right)

Charlotte really liked her dress, as you can see.

Charlotte

Caroline

Those last two are my girls' smiles and they just make me melt. The girls four month wellness check went fabulous! Caroline weighed 11 lbs. .5 oz. and Charlotte weighed exactly 11 lbs. Caroline was 23 1/2 inches and Charlotte was 23 1/4 inches. So they are pretty much the same size. They finally made it on the growth chart and are in the 10th percentile. He thought they held their heads up great. Not only are they rolling on their stomach but they are sitting up on their arms now.

Things they love:

-daddy (after being with me all day, when they see Andrew it's all smiles and giggles)

-story time (today, I read them a book and when I finished, they cried)

-cuddling with mommy in the morning

-baths

-sleeping on stomach

-wubbanub (little stuffed animal on the end of their pacifier)

-being held

I am able to start them on solids between now and six months. But since they are sleeping a good 6-7 hours in the night, we don't want to rock the boat. So I will probably put off the solids for another month or so.

My sister, mom and baby niece, Parker were in town a week ago. My sister and I put together a little photo shoot...really funny.

Aren't these outfits hilarious! Charlotte (left) Caroline (middle) Parker (right)

Charlotte (left) Parker (middle) Caroline (right)

I'm cracking up looking at these pictures right now. Too funny!