Mommies and Babies Madrid- Summer 13´

When I was 7 months pregnant with Carolina, I decided to hunt down some Mommy friends. I knew that since I would be staying at home for a year, I would need a good support system to make this work. So with a quick search on Meetup.com (which I super recommend- it puts you in touch with people of similar interest in your area, success both here and when we were in Hoboken), we have found some amazing people to spend our afternoons with. The result- our most recent
summer playdates and birthday parties.

Celebrating Sophie´s 1st

Sophia and Carolina 

Pool play date at our place

Kai, Fia and C- and even more lucky that Fia lives in our building!

Dinner out with just the girls! Pui Thai Tapas

Pool day

Celebrating Leander´s 2nd at Simone´s place

9 Months Old

The month you grew up. We left for Tennessee with one baby and came back with another. What a growing month! You were already crawling, but now you are racing. You were occasionally pulling up on the crib, couch, etc. Now- you pull up on everything in site! and all the time!! Though we´ve been trying to master the art of clapping, you´ve decided to focus your hand skills on the wave. And it´s super cute to watch you wave backwards, when you´re playing or at any old time you please. The most common sounds these days- ma ma ma, my ma ma, over and over. Lovin´ it. You went to the beach for the first time. I loved watching you explore the sand and daddy was fine until you rubbed it in your eye.  You like splashing in the water. You love your food- any food will do. And the more people the merrier- but there is no one who can entertain you more than your cousin Addie. You adore her and she adores you. You two will be great buddies. Though you eat like a horse, you haven´t gained an ounce- still at 19.6lbs- must be all that standing and crawling. You are always on the move. Lucky for us, you sleep 11-12 hrs a night and are napping 3 times a day for 30min. You are 2 feet 3.5 inches tall. Everyone in Spain calls you "la rubia", the blonde- but I´d say you´re more of a blondish brown with blueish greyish kinda greenish color eyes. Either way you are the most wonderful little baby to have around- happy and content 99% of the time!

Good times

and the last of my pics from our Richards Summer Vacation 2013

Family

the best sand shot I could get!

Lee and Ricardo´s farewell concert

Friends for life

Birthday getaway to Wilmington

C with Grammie, top down on the Solara and Ricardo and I headed out to celebrate. Thanks Francis for showing us around Wilmington. Such a beautiful town- like Charleston´s little sister. Ricardo and I then headed to Wrightsville Beach for Bday dinner on the pier. Lovely evening out!

B-day Celebration

It´s been many... many years since I´ve celebrated my birthday with the fam. Had a blast! and even had a visit from Charleston from Aunt Linda and Uncle Steve! 

Thankful for this gift!

On the river

A night out in Calabash, NC w/ the Goans and Richards.... 

Grammie and her girls

I really should have posted the series of poses I have from her cat walk moment!

Daddy and Addie

The Riches

our 2nd family- The Goan´s

She adores Addie!

Her namesake vacation- off to the Carolina´s!

Glory days! I could relive this week over a million times. And out of the 800 pictures I took, it was all I could do to narrow it down to 20 or so. What an amazing week in North Myrtle with Grammie, Rod, Addie, Jack, Lynn, Lee, Ricardo and Carolina (and special visits from Cousin Francis, Aunt Linda and Uncle Steve and Butch). We certainly missed our Babaw, as this is his 2nd home, but we did our best to celebrate Carolina style! I can still hear the ocean roaring now. Lots of yummy dinners, boogie boarding on the ocean, playing around in the pool, walks on the beach, photo sessions- but I´d still have to say the most fun we had was hanging out in the condo listening to our M.C. Addie, watching Carolina and all her first and sitting around telling funny stories. What a crew! Here´s our beach days..... more to follow......