These are a few of Cala's favorite things...

Slides at the Park

Climbing on Things
Like this step stool, I found her calmly sitting
on the top step today. Of course, I didn't react so calmly!


Watching Curious George and Clifford in the Morning


Being Cute


Spending Time with Daddy

Fun at the park!

Dunkin' Donuts!

I was so excited to move back East for lots of reasons...and one of them was Dunkin' Donuts! I love Dunkin' Donuts! I love donuts period, I love to walk by them and admire them/drool over them in the grocery store! Finally, after pointing out the many Dunkin' Donuts stores that we live by to Mark (mulitple times a day) we went there this morning.

We actually tried to go earlier this week. What a story...It's about a 25-minute walk, and when we left we noticed some dark clouds to the East, but figured that we wouldn't be out long and it would be fine...yeah right! About half way to Dunkin' Donuts, it started pouring, not just raining, pouring. We tried to stand under a tree (not a very smart idea during a thunderstorm), but eventually that wasn't even sheltering us from the rain, so we decided to run home. We did and we were SOAKED!

Anyway, this morning's trip was successful. I got two donuts, and I'm sad to say that they are not as good as I remember. So I think that today was our first and last time eating at Dunkin' Donuts... or who knows maybe we'll give it one more try...

Welcome to New York!

Well, now that we finally have internet I can post more to our blog! We've been in New York for about 2 1/2 weeks. I think we are finally starting to feel more at home. It definitely took some getting used to. Right after we moved I was talking to our landlord, and she was asking how things were going. I told her that this area is SO different than where we used to live. She seemed a little puzzled and asked if we used to live in the country :) I said no and tried to explain what Wymount is like, but really how can you explain Wymount?

This picture was taken from our front door.
And the picture below was taken from our back door.

Thank goodness for the church, though. It's the same everywhere you go. We've already made some friends. There are quite a few young married couples with kids and the husband is going to some kind of graduate school.

Cala is doing well. She has become quite a challenge to feed. She really wants to feed herself, and now refuses to eat baby food. Consequently meal times have become MESSY! Luckily, Mark hasn't started school yet and he helps with the clean up. I don't know what I'm going to do without him!

This is the method of clean up that we usually resort to, just stick Cala and her entire highchair into the tub and hose her down!