Well, we had quite and adventure!! Ashley and I left on Thurs, June 9th to head up to NY. She and I flew alone since daddy had to stay down to work. Between checking into airport, 2 flights, a layover, and getting a rental car and driving to grandma's, it turned out to be about a 10 hour day. I think Ashley cried a total of 20 minutes all day. She amazes me. She is such an incredibly good baby--very resiliant, flexible, happy and easy going.
Our trip started off visiting grandma and Aunt Cheryl. The next day we went to Jodi's wedding where she got to meet lots of people, including some of mommy's good friends from high school. The next day Ashley got to meet most of mommy's family. Some people traveled from PA to come meet her. We had a fun time visiting. Then we spent the evening with grandma and her friend Vince.
The following day mommy's cousin Nicole and her fiance Brian came to visit. Then mommy's special friend Jennifer Case and her daughter Isabella came to visit. We had fun with the babies playing together. We then went to visit mommy's aunt June and uncle Alf, so we could also visit with grandpa some more. Then we had more fun time with grandma.
On our last day in NY, mommy's old neighbor and friend, Julie (Barrett) Warlikowski and her two kids, Candace and Quinton came to visit. Then we went to visit grandma at her work--which is also mommy's old high school--we visited with grandma's friends, and mommy showed me her old locker and got to see her old favorite teacher who is still there, Mr. Brown. When we returned, mommy's cousin April stopped by to visit, then we packed up and grandpa drove us down to Grandmom and grandpops in NJ. It was a TIGHT squeeze in his little Fiat car, but we made it!!
We celebrated grandmom's birthday with her, grandpop, grandpa, uncle Andrew, aunt Lauren, and one of grandmoms friends. We got to skype with daddy since we were missing each other!
On the next day, mommy's old college roommate, Amy McManus came to visit. We hung out at the house, then went to eat and walked around the mall. She loved seeing me!
We then drove down to Liz and Bob Mazzeo's house. Ashley and Malayna got to meet, and we played together the next day before leaving.
From there, we drove to Marci, Michael, Trent and Gavin Whitby's house. We left shortly after arriving to go to Ocean City, NJ. It was Ashley's first time seeing the ocean (although we didn't go on the beach), and visiting the boardwalk. We had a fun time. After we went to Trent's little league baseball game and got ready for bed.
The next day we were very excited to go pick daddy up at the airport! It had been a whole week away! We then drove to his Aunt Jayne's house, where we stayed until we left. We hung out with his cousins Josh and Ethan, then grandmom came. We went to another baseball game to watch Ethan play, where Jayne and Ed met us. After we went for icecream to celebrate their win.
The next day mommy's friend, Keeley Sullivan, came to visit. We went to eat at Red Lobster, then went shopping to get a few goodies for daddy's first Father's Day. We had a fun visit. Later that night Ashley stayed with the family while daddy and I went to a rehearsal dinner for the wedding.
The next day grandmom took Ashley into Philadelphia to pick up grandpop, and also to help great grandpop with his flea marketing. Mommy had a few hours of quiet and nothing to do, which was WONDERFUL after all the crazy running around. Then we played with Ashley and then went to Mike and Elizabeth Palumbo's wedding. Aside from the bride and groom, Ashley was the star of the show!
The next day was Father's Day. We gave daddy breakfast in bed and he opened some gifts from Ashley. Then to celebrate Father's Day (it was Matt's 1st official), we first went to grandmom's side of the family for brunch and to visit, then later to grandpop's side to visit and for Alyssa's h.s. graduation party.
The next day we visited with great grandpop and his friend Lenore and grandpop. Then grandpop drove us to airport. Our flight was delayed, which meant we would miss our next flight, so grandpop had to drive us to the Baltimore airport...we had a few hours, so we got to get some yummy seafood and then walk around and see some of the sights in Baltimore. Then we were finally home.
Sigh....As you can see, we had A LOT going on!!! Again, I am just so amazed with what a good baby she is!!! She did GREAT!!!! Despite all the traveling, moving from place to place, people and teething, she was still happy and a delight! We couldn't ask for a better baby!!!
Some of Ashley's firsts:
-Attended two weddings
-Attended two baseball games
-Went to the ocean for the first time
-Met mommy's side of the family
-On June 12th, Ashley got her first tooth!!!! Her bottom left (if facing her)!
-Started doing acrobatic moves! Lol
-Yesterday (June 21)--tried cereal for the first time
-today:started nodding her head "yes"
