The Rest of Trey's Visit

The morning after the fair was a beautiful day and the cousins got to spend some quality time playing together outside:)  Noah and James are very proud of their skeleton and pirate pumpkins.

Fryeburg Fair 2011- Day #2

So, our second day at the fair was hot and crowded, so much so that I think we will not be going on the Saturday of the fair again.  The up side though was that we were able be at the fair with Nanny, Grandpa, Aunt Amy, Trey and 3/5 of the Pelkey clan:) We had lots more great fair food, fed the goats again, and spent some time in the school house. Trey had his first donut (and what a way to go with a "fair" donut;)), Noah got to try out some big farm machinery (James was asleep), and Benjamin tolerated the day in his onesie.

Noah the Soccer Star:)

Well, not really, but he has improved dramatically over last spring:)  I finally remembered to bring my camera today and get some photographic evidence of him playing soccer.  He absolutely loves playing!  I do have some video (and some video of James singing about Noah playing soccer) that I will try to get on here at some point.  It is so funny to watch this age group "play soccer".  Gabe likens it to herding cats;) This was the last day of outdoor soccer... it was so cold that James, Ben and I watched from the car for the last half.  It took me a surprising amount of time to convince James that it was ok for him to sit in the driver's seat to "drive", but once he figured out what that was all about it was hard to get him out;)

Fryeburg Fair 2011- Day #1

One of the highlights of fall is the Fryeburg Fair.  This year Gabe had a vacation week so he was able to come with us for both days:)  I am quite sure we would have gone more, or stayed for a few nights, but he has an important presentation coming up and plans to spend most of the vacation working on that.  Monday was Woodsmen's Day and supposed to be a rainy day, but it turned out to be perfect fair weather.  The pictures really say it all, we had a great time and a wonderful family day at the fair.  We definitely took full fair liberties and had lots of overpriced, deep fried fair food and spent time checking out all of the animals including feeding the goats at Old McDonald's farm.  

Since the last blog post not much overly excited has happened beyond the mundane day to day stuff:)  Benjamin is growing very well.  At birth he weighed 8 lbs. and when we went in for his 2 week check up he was up to 9lbs. 12oz!  Super baby (or I like to tell myself it is super milk:)). He continues to be a pretty easy going baby and tolerates all of the love that his big brothers give him.  In the same vain, Noah continues to be very helpful in caring for Ben, and James has also pitched in to insist on doing everything by himself;)