Helping with the Nursery

Heather and Mom cutting tags off and sorting baby boy clothes.

Louisa playing in the kids' kitchen.

Scrubbing old wallpaper pasted off the nursery walls.

Heather entertaining Louisa in the sandbox while chores are done inside.

Kate, Louisa and I headed up Rte. 89 early this morning, fortified with Dunkin' tea and glazed treats to help the Nowlans progress a little further in preparations for the arrival of the baby boy in a month or so. Upon arrival, we were treated to a fast paced  modern dance of welcome by Monet, followed by lots of cooking in the little kids' kitchen. I painted a bookcase with the remnants of a can of cream colored flat paint, while Kate tackled cleaning the floor and walls in the nursery after they were stripped of lots of wallpaper by Heather and Doobie last weekend. Once I finished the bookcase and cleaned up, I helped Kate for a bit in the nursery before heading back home. We timed it perfectly to allow Louisa and Kate and I a peaceful ride back (Louisa napped). It was a good feeling to help. We also delivered some baby boy clothes and a toddler bed and mattress for Monet.

Visits with Louisa

Running from Mom. What you do not see is Louisa chasing Mom in the other direction!

It is much more fun to feed the pretty pink pony, sitting in the high chair, than eating your food yourself!

A baby belly laugh-one of the sweetest and funniest sounds in the universe!

Even though Kate , Scott and Louisa live five minutes away from Northern Acres, visits that last any time  with her are infrequent. Most of our meetings are short and sweet. Lately, I have been trying to spend a little more play time with Louisa-she is so much fun. Usually, because Monet lives a couple of hours away, when she and I get together, we have lots of play time. I am deeply feeling the need to do the same with Louisa-she is such a character and a sweetheart!
Here are some pics of sweet Louisa playing. Tomorrow Kate, Louisa and I head to Cornish to visit the Nowlans.  Pictures of that happening will be posted soon!

Olympics and sunshine

We had  planned an evening of dinner, a good bottle of French red, and the Olympic opening ceremony, and it all happened-with a few surprises thrown in.
But before all that, the rain has to be the subject. There was lots of it-enough to flood the parking lot behind the building Welch Fluorocarbon (from now on referred to as WF)  is in ,causing everyone to move their cars to the  dry edge of the road. The building is obviously built on a swamp, some of which is left behind and in front of the structure. It is a wetland out back with frogs and water plants and  WATER. There are several strips of marsh on either side of the road in the front of the building, with cat o' nine tails growing and who knows what else in the water. A great blue heron landed in one of these mini-wet lands the other day to fish. He was a regal site, and upon being startled, morphed into a positively prehistoric winged creature and flew away, sans fish.
WF is  place we spend lots of time, so there will be photos of it time to time to add to the writings.

A grown daughter and her hubby hired a young neighbor to sit  with L while they took in the new Batman flick. L was sleeping peacefully for a while, but at 11:30 PM I got a call from the sitter that L was not so peaceful anymore and could I please assist. Of course, said I, who cannot resist toddler beauty, charm and need,  all wrapped up in grandmotherly love. So after throwing clothes on, I drove through the night to the rescue. L was delighted to see Nanna and her bag of tricks and stayed awake until 1:30 AM , when Mom and Dad arrived home! It was wonderful to help. As I drove back I was hoping to spy a nocturnal bruin on his or her way, but was instead treated to a lovely, fawn colored doe munching on the apples that gravity had deposited for her pleasure under the apple trees in the front yard. She and I nodded politely at each other, both going back to our business -me in to bed, and her to juicy, cool fruit munching. E was sweetly awaiting my return, and we turned off the light and slept.

The flooded , empty parking lot behind WF.

Looking from Unit 11 to Unit 12 at WF. We have a third unit as well. This is the second floor. Engineering and Manufacturing are on the first floor. 

                                            My office with a computer, and lots of toys that lots of folks play with. Off to the left is a window that opens to E's office, and comes in handy.