Beach Haven, LBI

We had the best time in LBI! You can see in the pics that Mark was in absolute heaven with his cousins. He's still asking for them every day.

Mark's Birthday Party

Here are pics of Mark's (early!) birthday party at home...he had so much fun and was so good! At one point while the two of us where upstairs for a minute, he named all the people who were there and started hugging me saying: "Mommy, Happy Day! Happy Day!" :)
And of course, it had to be a "Thomas" theme! His head exploded a bit when he came downstairs in the morning and saw all the decorations, and then especially when he saw the cake.

July pics

Summer playdates with friends...so much fun! We also took Mark to see Blues Clues live and he LOVED it! (Once he got over the shock of seeing them on stage, that is). They gave each child a notebook (like Steve's) and Mark got so into it...yelling out the characters' names as they came onstage and drawing all the clues in his notebook.

And I added some pics from a great day at the Habayebs - check out the cousins together...they had a blast!

Catching up!

I've finally uploaded all the pics...pretty much from late winter through July! Take a look at the Jan/Feb through Spring/Summer Misc. pictures on the side. Sorry it took so long this time...I'll be back on track after this (for a while, at least!).

PS: Snapfish isn't giving the option of not making everyone sign in - so annoying!

My Gym

He loves his My Gym! This was the last day of the session, their "graduation" where they got their Super Kid stickers...check out the pics on the side.

Bedhead

Seriously...

Mark & Alexandra

Hugging or doing the middle-school-slow-dance?

The Rocking Horse

We had a post-Christmas Brunch at Nunzi's (pictures are posted!). We exchanged presents...
Poppop (Matt's grandfather) gave Mark his Christmas gift - a handmade rocking horse. There is no way to describe this gift, and the pictures cannot possibly show all the details and work on it. It is amazing. This unbelievably wonderful 88-year-old man spent about seven months researching and building this horse from scratch. It has real horse hair. A leather saddle from England. He carved every inch of the horse, including the teeth and muscles. It is the most beautiful thing we have every seen. It will be passed down for generations. And Mark loves it!
Thank you, Poppop!!