The Dog Days of Summer . . . Woof

Well, some big developments occurred between the time we started working on this post and it got published! Erin is going to be a big sister! The official due date is May 10 and she is very excited to tell everyone about her "brodder." We are not going to find out if we are having a boy or a girl so look to a future blog to place your votes. When the votes were tallied for Erin it was 80% boy so we have no faith in your guessing ability!

Summer is gone and yet its still rather warm here. Many days this summer were spent at the pool and the beach. Erin loved going to the pool and 'swimming' in the water. Still working on going underwater but she loves playing Humpty-Dumpty along the edge of the pool. Of course, who wouldn't love being pulled in a comfortable wagon for a quarter-mile with drink, snacks and toys. Its like a rickshaw service has come to Columbia.

1.) Here's Erin at a fruit farm diligently working on tiling the soil, gathering the crop and doing her part to pay the bills at the Smith house. 2.) In the middle is Erin with her first ponytail. You can't see it, but she was quite exicited about it. 3.) On the right she is being the diva of the playground.


That playground is at the Thomas E. Dixon Airport Observation Park. It sits at the top of some of the landing strips at BWI and you can watch planes come in all day. They get a lot closer than the picture shows, its pretty cool. Erin was quite enthralled.

Here are a couple of photo's from our vacation with some friends, the Illums'.

Here is the beach bum family . . . we were fortunate to spend plenty of time in Ocean City, MD visiting with Menna & Pop-pop. Erin was bit timid with the water (which is fine with us for now, it was rough). She was content for Dad to dig a 3 x 3 hole in the ground and just play in it all day.

Below she is having fun in the sun with her friend Macy (friends from Center Valley, PA that were also vacationing in the OC). On the right her Menna is introducing her to the glamour of jewelry.

On the left you can see that Erin is all grown-up and moved into her own place. She is quite 'green' friendly as this house is 100% biodegradable. On the right she is the busy tyke doing some networking in the privacy of her home. Might sound something like this - "Let's get together for sippy cups and goldfish - meet me at the tot lot on the corner of Tamar and Old Montgomery, say 10:30 AM, that will give me time to finish building my block tower and review at least one Clifford Puppy Days story."

Enough of the lengthy narratives . . . here are some more cute pics.






It's hard to see, but Erin was not exactly loving this moment.