Boo!

Happy Halloween!

Be happy, be safe, enjoy your day!!

Safe trick or treat on Main Street today, keep your eye out for the Queen of Hearts!

Spirograph

well, there's no doubt my husband & I are both children of the 70's... My mum brought my old Spirograph, and both of us instantly had to play... Adriana had her first go tonight, she's definitely ours, "I would be best friends with the person who invented Spirograph", she said...

Adriana's piano!

We're finally getting Adriana's piano tomorrow, hip, hip, hooray! I love listening to her play, she's really just beginning, but the process is so exciting to me... I love the fact she can read music (well, you know, on those easy tunes any way), that she self-corrects, and that she can pick out so many tunes by ear... If you haven't noticed, I'm fairly fond of the wee one.. I like her keyboard, but a piano it surely isn't... so it will be fabulous for her to learn on.

We're getting the piano from her god-mother, my dear friend, Naomi, it is her moms and they both decided it would be great for Adriana to have it to learn on, to play, and to enjoy. How very sweet of them, what a lovely gift... to us all... (Of course, I'm envisioning her playing Christmas carols on it year-round, think we'll have to set the ground rules early!)

My mum was up this past weekend, and I had to apologize to her that I was so nasty about not wanting to take piano lessons, boy I wish I had now... wonder if Joe at the Conservatory wants to teach mom as well... hmmmm....

my favorite day

October 14th is my favorite day, it's the day my beautiful daughter was born... Eight years ago today, we welcomed this lovely child who fills our house with so much love... Adriana is such a joy, she brings us so much happiness, fills our lives with music, keeps us on our toes ('how do you spell onomatopoeia?'), and makes us laugh so hard... We had no idea eight years ago how wonderful our family would be...

Adriana, I love you... I wish you a wonderful year, thank you for all you bring into our home... xxxx

Alynn & Matt

Congratulations! We wish you a lifetime of love...

butterflies

walking Lucy this morning on Seagull Beach, I saw a beautiful Monarch butterfly. He was feeding on the Seaside Goldenrod to build his strength for the long journey to Mexico... He was bright and beautiful, and such a lovely start to the day... and then I saw a brilliant, yellow butterfly, and was mesmerized for the instant he allowed me to be, before zipping off on his way...

I looked in my Butterflies Across Cape Cod book, by Mark Mello and Tor Hansen, (which I got at the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History by the way) and found that I had seen a Cloudless Sulphur, fantastic!!!

*disclaimer - I use the word 'he' in the most innocuous sense of the word, they may have been she's... and I found the photo on Wikipedia from the St. Louis Zoo, so thanks for the great image! I was without camera this morning, but would have been without a photo even if I hadn't been!!!