Green & Gold Weekend 2009

We spent this past weekend with Eben's family in Moretown, Vermont. We stayed at the home of family friends and it was completely picturesque - at least in these pictures. Try not to visualize the thirteen of us (seven kids) in the house and rain all day Saturday! Anyway - the foliage did not disappoint. But most of all, I really liked the setting of the house and the apple trees. I hope that these pictures capture some of it.






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Here is Edison running over to play with his cousins.





Edison & his treasure.



We hiked up the double chair route of Mad River Glen ski area on Sunday. It turned into a beautiful day. Edison did pretty well in the backpack. I'm glad that I carried him down and not up, though - he is getting heavy!





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Mad River Glen had a "Green & Gold" celebration with live music and kids' activities. Edison adores anything he can put around his neck (remember the leopard print boa?), so of course he went crazy with the bin of dress up beads.









Clearly this is not Edison's most flattering picture, but I couldn't resist. Our friends Matt & Lisa gave him this stuffed Orca whale (yay Pac NW!) and it is his favorite stuffed animal. He loves to put its dorsal fin and tale in his mouth and suck on them while getting ready to go to sleep. He doesn't suck his thumb or a pacifier - but a whale? - SURE! I have to put it in the washer every other day to keep it from getting to fishy - wocka, wocka, wocka! (homage to Fozzy Bear)






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