Santa comes to town

Last weekend, the motorcycle group that my father's been a big part of for years, had their annual "toys for tots run", which means that the Harley Riders drove their motorcycles to different places throughout the island, picking up donations and doing some fundraising for the Red Stocking Fund. The Red Stocking Fund is a fantastic organization who help provide local children in need, gifts for Christmas.

This year was super special,

because Bampie (my father) had his special friend Santa

riding in the sidecar of his motorcycle!

Isaac has been talking about Santa ever since!!

I guess the countdown to the holidays is on now.

Hello Beautiful Ball of Fluff

Today, Isaac and I went to visit the local animal shelter where we found our beloved Alexander. A friend of mine who works there let me know that there was an uber-adorable, four month old Pomeranian puppy who needed a good home. He told me a heartbreaking story of how he wound up with a broken leg.

The puppy had lived in a very crowded house, with allot of little kids. Somehow he got under a rocking chair and his leg was caught under the chair : (

He was by far the sweetest, most lovable, most adorable, kissiest puppy that I've ever met! I wanted to sneak him into Isaac's diaper bag, and bring him home with us. He gets along really great with cats, which is good because he's smaller then both of ours. He was so great with Isaac too. He just wanted to cuddle up close to anyone who looked at him!

We ventured into the kitty room after a little while, and we met three wonderful kitties! One had a cold, so she was in her cage. She adored Isaac so much, and let him sit and pet her for so long. I've never heard a cat purr so loudly!

We met an older cat named Graham who reminded me of Alexander. He was huge, with pumpkin colored eyes, and the longest white whiskers in the world. He had soft grey fur with a white chin and chest, he was a great cat to lounge around with, he wasn't so playful.

There was a very sweet, big, sleek, fluffy cat who reminded me of a lynx. She had super tall ears with little tufts of fur on their tops, big yellow round eyes, a thick fluffy tail, and a glorious mane.

It was hard to leave our new found fluffy friends, but I assured Isaac we could visit again real soon.

Holiday Time

I can't believe that the holidays are sprinting towards us already! Isaac and I have been very busy making Thanksgiving crafts, using lots of fun supplies, like paper plates, googly eyes, feathers, galore!

We're counting down the days until Baba and Gigi arrive!! Then the festivities can really begin! (of course pictures will follow)

I've already begun creating our holiday cards,

it's so hard choosing only a few pictures from the whole year!

There are so many great ones

Sick lil Guy

For the past week or so, Isaac has been fighting a cold which hasn't been getting any better. For the past few days, he's had a fever, and a little rash on his stomach and chest, and I noticed his ears seemed to be really bothering him.

He hasn't been eating very much, or wanting to drink anything, which isn't like him at all : (

We packed up and headed to the pediatricians office first thing this morning. He told me that his Tigger was very sick, and needed to go see the doctor too. Both Isaac AND Tigger were excellent patients.

Unfortunately they both have double ear infections, but hopefully they'll feel much, much better by Wednesday! Fingers crossed!

Turtle Time

Today, Isaac and I went to "turtle time" a new fun activity they had at the Family Center. A woman from one of the local animal rehabilitation centers here on the island brought two turtles along with her, and taught us all about them. I actually learned quite a bit.

I had no idea turtles lived so long! The pair she brought had been captured in the 60s! There was a spotted turtle, who lives in water, and a box turtle who lives on land. We learned that turtles have their spines connected to their shells, which is why you have to be very careful handling a turtle because if their shell breaks, that means big trouble for them.

She also brought along some old turtles for us to touch and explore, and even a huge snapping turtle shell for the toddlers to try on! It was really neat, I'm so happy that we went!

Happy Halloween!

This was a really great Halloween! We had a costume/birthday party on Saturday, which turned out to be a horrible, rainy day, which put a damper on the costume parade through town, but non the less, it was a blast! Isaac (who was a candy corn of course) got to play with a dalmatian, her 4 day old baby sister (also a dalmatian) a lady bug princess, her little brother who was a dragon, an owl, who's little sister was a lady bug, two little cupcakes, a fairy, who's little brother was a monkey, a tiger, a shark, and a ballerina, who said she was a witch.

It was so much harder to gather all the toddlers together for a photo this year, last year they weren't so independent, or mobile yet so it was much easier! We managed to snag a couple good photos though!

Back at home, we carved pumpkins, Ian carved a scary face, and Isaac and I did a silly, happy face. We had fun choosing the right ones for the job, it was hard, but I picked out two identically round ones, hoping Michael would carve one, an oval one, which Ian carved, Isaac picked out the teeniest pumpkin I've ever seen, and we piled them all in the cart and somehow managed to make it to the car, pumpkins all in tact!

For the dress up part, Ian had a really great Viking costume that he put together with his mom, the assembling we did here, and the make up and stuff like that. Michael slipped on his rain gear that he wears for fishing, and I threw together a last minute witch costume. After a few house visits, we were ready to hit the streets for Trick or Treating!

We met up with some friends who just had a baby 11 days ago, he wore Isaac's chili pepper costume and was soooo cute I could hardly stand it!

I hadn't ever gone trick or treating in any town but Edgartown, so it was a new experience for all of us! Isaac was very brave for a few houses, and marched right up to the porch, but gone stage freight and forgot his lines : )

Luckily Ian wasn't ever more than a step behind him. We ended the night with two very sleepy trick or treaters, one sleepy fisherman who had to work at midnight, and one super sleepy witch with very achy feet!

Only 364 days until next Halloween!!! Hoooorayy!!

An Awesome Autumn

My friend Heather, who lives in Hawaii, asked me to collect her some pretty Autumn leaves. I guess I never really thought about it before, but they don't really have the whole change of season out there. She grew up here in New England, and Im sure she misses seeing the fall colors!

Isaac, Aunt WooWoo, her dogs, and I headed on a nature walk in search of beautiful foliage. We had a nice walk, but we really had to search for any colored leaves! Sure there were tons of leaves, but they were mostly from oak trees, which were just dry and brown. Bleach.

While we were heading back, we spotted some pretty ones in some trees above us, that hadn't quite made it to the ground yet. Good thing Isaac isn't scared of heights! If only Aunt WooWoo had remembered to put on her safety glasses. . .

I had the very, very best intentions to press them within the pages of some wax paper, and iron them and send them to her with her early Thanksgiving car package. I just needed to find the time. When I had the time, I reached for the Ziploc bag of beautiful leaves only to find they had all turned brown : (

WHAT A LET DOWN!! Lesson learned, that's for sure!

Not to worry, it looks like the rain is behind us, and soon enough, maybe Wednesday, we'll be out again in search of better replacements!