Adventures of Kailie and Kolton Matthews: Catching Up

As usual I'm playing catch up on my blogs - but this time I get to blame it on Hurricane Igor. We finally had our internet restored after 2+ weeks without it. It's amazing how reliant we are on the internet these day:)

So here is a re-cap of all the fun we had to finish off our summer this year . . .

- We were very happy to have Grampa John come for a visit, Kailie just loves the extra love and attention she gets when we have family come!

- Kailie went through her first Hurricane which included some creative thinking on Mommy & Daddy's part as we had to get through a few days without power. We were very fortunate that Igor ended up being fairly tame relative to what we were expecting.

- Shortly after the Hurricane, Kailie & Mommy headed to Philly for the weekend to meet up with Daddy who had been working there for a few days. We spent most of the weekend enjoying Sesame Place with all of Kailie's Sesame Street friends. It was their first Halloween weekend so there was a lot of tricks and treats to be had! Kailie especially liked the shows -because she was at bit of a distance from the characters . . . as you'll see below, once they got up close Kailie was no longer their biggest fan!

- The end of summer also saw the end of Kailie's swim lessons. She did so fantastic this year in swimming, she really loves any time she can get in the pool, hopefully our nice weather will hold out for a few more months so we can still get some swims in here and there:)

It was a fantastic summer (albeit hotter than we might have liked) but we are happy to see fall come with some cooler temperatures. The beginning of fall also meant another cousin for Kailie!!! Little Maya Rose Cyr was born early October and we are already counting the days until we get to meet this new sweet little bundle:)

For now though we have a big 2nd birthday coming up - the plans are in place for a costume Halloween Birthday party - and we can't wait!!

Here are a few pic's of the great time we had over the rest of the summer (and at the end, just a few of my favorite pic's of Kailie)!

As usual, our little Miss leading the way this was one night when we were out at the Lighthouse for dinner when Grampa John was here:)

Kailie loves her visitors - and talks about them for a long time after they leave.

Kailie showing off some of her swim moves to G'pa!

And yes - I promise she got up after this smiling and saying "Again??!!"

Kailie went for swimming lessons a couple times a week for most of the summer - it was a great way to beat some of the intense heat and we had loads of fun:)

Kailie's awesome back float!

This was the beach on the afternoon before Igor came through - we don't usually get waves anything like this in Bermuda.

Our water prep - earlier in the day we had dumped that entire bin full of water, all over the kitchen floor, so we decided the bathtub was a much better spot for it!

Heating Kailie's bottle over tea-lights in the fireplace!! This was in the thick of the storm when we couldn't get to the bbq yet! It actually worked really well!

Movie night for Mommy & Daddy:)

Daddy's bbq breakfast the next morning - it was delicious as you can see!

Sesame Place

If you look closely at each of the pictures, you'll see that Kailie doesn't exactly have her smiling face on . . . . we're such bad parents!!!! Once she was about a foot away and there was no threat of them coming any closer she was quite happy to blow kisses though:) (PS - Christy - thx for the tips on the collage)!