Momma brought her big ole camera which means…here is the mother load of pics i took all trip. So many cute ones filled with cute little people. Sabs bathing suit lasted all of one hour and then she stripped down to her birthday suit…b/c it after all it was her birthday weekend (not that she needs an occasion to run naked). Be 2, run wild, run free, my little jungle spirit.

Sabs just adores Bradley and he is just an angel with babies. I love watching the dynamics between them. Pooks and Bella were off having their little coffee chats about who knows what but of course, very important. It is precious that most of these pics are taken while no one is watching and they are all hugging and loving each other and giggling. Sweet peas.

Happiest of birthdays to my little Sabsy!! Oooooh how we love you so! I will do a separate post on all the awesomeness you possess at this wee little age of 2. You are a spunky, bright ray of sunshine and I am the luckiest woman in the world to be your momma! Once i get through catching up on pics, I will do a post on all your accomplishments and firecracker personality. In the meantime…here are some pics

You got a bunch of presents (fishing game, dolls, paint, playdough, shopkins), but i think your very favorite at first sight was your Shrek doll! You squealed. Oh how i wish i had it on video to watch over and over. Another big hit was this face painting kit which you and your sissy got to work on straight away. LOVE LOVE LOVE YOU!

What a fun day watching all the cousins tackle Adventureland together and finishing with pizza and a swim! I was having a serious case of congestion, this is about the time Sophie’s started, Sabs was prob heading there b/c she was getting clingy, but nothing stopped us!

I tried to snap my phone a bunch in hopes to get one with everyone looking and smiling…but no such luck. All cuties nonetheless.

Two healthy kiddos and off to the museum with Nana we went! The girls had a bunch of fun, and had we not gone to the Children’s museum in CR last week, I would have said this was a great museum. But we did…and well it kicked LI’s butt. Like stomped on it. Buuut, thankfully we went to LI first so we weren’t disappointed and honestly the girls had a blast at both regardless. Plus LI museum came with Nana so that scores major points in the lil ones book. Pooks favorite thing was hammering a nail and the little art station. The bubble station and sand room didn’t disappoint either. Sabs loved hugging all the pretend animals and watching the bees. This is the day I started coming down with the nasty cold that I am currently experiencing. Yes, that is right, two weeks. TWO WEEKS! First the throat, then the head, then congestion, then the eyes, oh sheesh, it is just taking over. Sabs is sitting across from me right now eating her third banana muffin i made with a layer of snot coating her nose. It is lovely. Glad i baked while she was napping b/c apparently everything else i offered her was gross and the ice pop she devoured yesterday was repulsive to her today. These banana muffins are making the cut big time. Thank goodness they have no sugar and all that other nonsense so she can go ahead and eat her little healthy muffin heart out.

Sabs ran a 24 hour fever basically all of Monday…bleh. Thankfully it was yesterday’s news by Tuesday. Pooks and Nana went on a little date in the morning while I took care of Sabs. I can’t remember what we did that afternoon but I know for a majority of it I was laid out on the couch with a sick little Sabs on top of me. The next day we went back to the park with Sabs in tow and the girls both had their very first ice cream truck purchase (though Sabs donated hers to Nana since she still didn’t have much of an appetite). Papa came in to hang out and we just laid low around the neighborhood while Sabs recuperated. Pooks made some buddies at the park as usual, and Sabs just went down the slide over and over again, as usual.

Of course she picked the weird character with gumball eyes. Her mouth was blue for the rest of the park visit :).

“Wanna go weeeeeee!”

A little combo post of first two days and visits with friends. Matt’s bday party, Laura and Rob’s house, visit with AJ’s kiddos.

Our first full day in NY we headed to Uncle Matt’s birthday party! The cuzzos all played together and picked up right where they left off. Apparently I didnt take many pics this day (prob just recovering from getting in late the night before) but i made up for it later in the week :).

The next day we headed  back to LI to see our favorite little family. This is always one of my favorite visits in NY and the kids just absolutely adore each other. Sophie ran in before we even got out of the car and her, Mason and Elle were already off to playing. Sabs fell asleep on the way there and was a bit clingy that evening. I found out the why next morning…FEVER. She still played in spurts and had a blast. We all picked up right were we left, and Rob cooked a killer dinner. Big love to this special family always.

Look at little Elle’s face in the pic below. Nom nom nom. Love these two!

One of the last days we were there we popped over to see an old HS friend and her little nuggets. Once again, the girls walked right in and ran off playing with AJ’s little son (who i didn’t get a pic of sadly) like they have known each other for years. They also both wanted to take care of her little 4 month baby and Sabs went right over to put a paci in her mouth and help feed her a bottle. She really just adores babies and it is so darn cute to watch. Pooks is super gentle and equally obsessed with babies. I am so proud of my sweet peanuts and how friendly and comfortable they both with themselves and other people. Oooh they make my heart burst.

Catching flies. Night night babies. xoxoxo

Ok, we are now back and settled in CR, unfortunately a nasty cold virus has decided to settle in with us as well. Pookie seems to have mainly kicked it after nearly 2 weeks, I have waves of it on and off (currently on), and Sabs is just a walking snot monster. This is one disgusting virus that we kindly left with Nana and Papa too (woops) and possibly Kiki. Sorry all.

Anyway, I have downloaded all the pics and will do videos a bit later. So let’s start at the very beginning…a very good place to start. However, this actually wasn’t such a great place because poor little Pooks came down with fever the day before our travels and continued to have fever up until our arrival to NY. This fever was unrelated to the grossness that we are currently dealing with, though it also managed to knock Sabs out for a day in NY as well. Miraculously, kids are little super beings and Pooks wanted no part of postponing any travels. She was acting normal, running around, sleeping fine, not eating a bunch, but other than that you would never know she was ill. She tooks tons of baths along the way and the fever was gone in no time.

We started off our trip flying out of Liberia. It was a quick 3 hour (and change) drive to our hotel and both chicas were of course amazing the whole way. They ran into the hotel and did their usual excited hyper assessment of their new room for the night. Both hopped straight into the bath and had a blast. Pooks had about 101 fever in these pics, she still wanted to go swimming in the hotel pool, run around the lobby, and have pillow fights. I am sitting here with no fever and just congestion and all i want to do is crawl under this blanket and hibernate.

The hotel didn’t have the room we booked so they upgraded us to a bigger room. Not a bad start to the journey. We had a full living room, separate big bedroom, and a large bathroom. The girls took 3 baths in less than 15 hours.

Off we headed to Atlanta and the flight was super easy. Pooks slept most of it as she was still working off her fever. Sabs slept a little and chilled the rest of the time. Will had his own seat in the row opposite us. He gets off easy now since we need to buy 4 seats and the smaller planes only have 3 in each row. Lucky for me, the little nuggets are good travelers and I even got to watch a movie. I laugh because the only times i have watched anything other than a kids movie in the past year are when we have been on an airplane. I think Will got a solid chunk of work done too b/c he was able to get Wifi on the plane. Score all around.

Everyone slept great in Atlanta. The girls took prob 3 more baths. Pooks still wanted to go swim in the hotel pool and we had to tell her no again (still running fever). We forgot Pooks nightlight in the previous hotel in CR, if she wasn’t so excited for her plane the next day, we would have had a major issue. I left the bathroom light on, she was satisfied. I then went online to amazon and showed her that i found her exact nightlight and ordered it right away. It arrived in NYC two days after we did. Thank goodness it was the nightlight and not Happy bear. I lost my Benneton bear in a hotel when i was a kid. I was devastated. Luckily because of that tragic memory, i am Happy Bear’s greatest bodyguard. He gets packed the moment we wake up. For the record, Will plugged in the missing nightlight the night before (technically he should have been the one to unplug…if we want to get technical…which of course we do b/c it is in my favor).  The girls made a little buddy in the lobby and played with her for a bit. Sophie was busy telling her how she was sick, but not really sick, just a little sick, but still ok. She was blabbing away like her normal chatty self and I knew she was just about done with this fever. By the time we landed her fever was gone. Here are some more bath pics (this time in atlanta). The hotel was also super nice though scrolling through i don’t think i took any pics.