going to philly

 

 

 

 

these are some pictures from the weekend.
the lotus flower i need to photograph again, but it was an adventure to get to the pond that had the flowers. i did not know it would be so hard to trek. i put tulsi down for only a couple of minutes to take some pics. she was whining cause the ground was wet and she got her legs scratch up pretty good. opps

so we are off to philly for the week. my parents, my sister donna and child plus me and tulsi are going to the jersey shore to visit with our relatives from boston. then i hope to visit with some friends while i am in philly.
should be a good week.
certainly pics will be posted when i get back.
THEN it is get ready for baby BOOT camp.
im 36 weeks this week.
baby is considered full term and ready to come at week 37. we are really counting on the first week of august though. my friend azure is flying out for the first week, so we will keep our fingers and legs crossed til then!
love to you all!
maureen

flowers up close

 

 

 

today was a long day. started with having jason over all morning and then maxx almost all afternoon. but luckily i held up fine. i feel like i am having back and forth days again, where one day i feel stable and energetic and the next i feel like crawling in a hole and sleeping (which i can not, so then im a bit grumpy).
enjoy the pics

jason feet

 

rrrrrrrrrrrr i can never post in order...but i suspect tusli will try this trick next.

standing up to swing

 

 

 

 

i have barely gotten used to tulsi swinging on the big kid swing and today she suddendly was standing on the swing and asking to be pushed. i said no way to the pushing but was happy for her to explore standing on the swing. wild girl...but really observerant. she has seen the big kids stand and so she figured it out.

on sound of music

 

 

 

 

we went out to sound of music hill to play and to take some pics of flowers.

hazel with her hoop

 

 

 

hazel came up to visit. she lived here 2 years ago. she is a super fitness teacher in baja mexico right now. she gave us a little show this morning in the light rain. WOW can she HOOP!!!!

upper woods pond

 

 

 

 

this afternoon i took my friends amanda and john's engagement pics and i got tooooooooo hot so i suggested to go to a lake to cool off and take pictures. at the end of the session i asked john to take a couple of me and tulsi.

clearwater festival

 

 

 

 

so amazingly these following post are in order, except the first one. this was done intentionally cause i like these pics best. i was REALLY hoping to get silloute shots. but as sunset came on there was a cloud bank so i asked jon to just take some pics of me and tulsi and he took some of my favorite pics of me and her yet. GO JON!

so scroll down to see LOADS of pics of the entire day.
the day started out rough cause on the 2 hour drive there tusli was puking for at least the first hour. ROUGH. we stopped a lot and you can only prepare for so much and i was not prepared for that. but we all handled it well and by the end of the car ride tulsi was happy and singing.

it was a really great day!!! we really love it there. this was tulsi's 3rd clearwater and i know she will only enjoy it more and more each year.

first thing

 

 

after the excitement of going under the rainbow ticket counter tulsi wanted to go straight to the playground. she LOVES playgrounds! and this place has 2 big ones.

bubble pool

 

 

 

the 2nd thing we did was go to the bubble pool. they filled up a little kiddie pool with bubbles and had wands and hula hoops in there. the kids LOVED it.

children's stage

 

 

 

this was the first year where i did not even open the program guide at the festival. there was so much to do and we were fully catering to what tulsi's interest were. to my liking she was into the kid's music stage. she was the only one up and dancing and it was sooooooooo cute.

in the 2nd and 3rd pic we were at the kids stage mid-act and tulsi wanted to be closer so she went by herself in the tent, then made herself cozy on stage. she really like the wooden puppet.
it was a great act. my fav joke was why are new yorkers so depressed? cause the light at the end of the tunnel is new jersey.

scenes

 

 

 

 

pics from walking around.