Remember When Wednesday - Matthew's visit to Zoo at 18 months old

Once I start looking at my punkin's pics on the computer, I literally am entranced and can not move my feet from the ground.

I am stuck and in love. Reminds me of that Lionel Richie song Stuck on you. I have probably 5,000 pics of him since birth on our computer. My parents had probably less than 100 of me in my whole lifetime. I know it was not the era of the digital camera. I wish it was because for me to be able to create a view into his world for him to look back at someday is something that is priceless. I have movie films of my family growing up but they didn't even have sound. It would have been so awesome to hear my mom saying whatever it was she was saying to me with love you can see on her face. Matthew will never have that problem. He has videos and movies and pictures with us to remind him of our love.

This morning I got stuck on pictures I found where we took him to Southwick's Zoo in Mendon, MA when he was 18 months old.

The first and last picture are of him in the petting zoo. I love what looks like him grabbing a turkey's bum.

The other pics are of myself with him and Daddy and him looking at the monkeys.

My blogs are shorter these days because I am busy creating more memories and cleaning (as usual).

Daddy has to go to PA next week with work so we are trying to plan our trip to go as well.

Enjoy.

Mommy and Matthew at Memorial Day Parade

Mommy and Matthew at Memorial Day Parade
Originally uploaded by Matthewsmom.

Well, we went to the parade today. Matthew enjoyed everything but the ceremony.

Click on the picture for more great pics from yesterday and today, including the new other "woman" in Daddy's life. She keeps him warm and fed, so he calls it a she... LOL

Picture Matthew took of Mommy and Daddy at WW1 Memorial Park

Picture Matthew took of Mommy and Daddy at WW1 Memorial Park
Originally uploaded by Matthewsmom.

Well here it is. A picture of Mommy and Daddy taken by Matthew after a few tries. Notice how far apart we are. That is because we only had so much time before Eric set him up and he actually took the pic, we had to hurry and didn't know if it was going to work.

Practice, Practice, Practice.

If he has our genes, he will be photograph hungry in no time.

Today was a wonderful day at WWI Memorial Park. Click on this picture again to show you in Flickr the rest of the pics from our fun trip.

Papa Swan and Baby Swan feeding Swans On Our Lake

Papa Swan and Baby Swan feeding Swans On Our Lake
Originally uploaded by Matthewsmom.

This is a memory we have made today. Daddy and Matthew feeding the swans a few pieces of bread....click on the picture to bring you to Flickr to see what happen's next.

Reasons Why I love New England

For the past 24 hours I have been searching for photos to express what I wanted to get across. Unfortunately, alot of my pictures that I have need to be scanned and so I am so thankful that the world wide web has so many avenues to provide me with these photos.

• The first picture is of Point Judith Lighthouse in Rhode Island and was taken by roddh's photos at Flickr. It is really a beautiful picture.

Eric and I discovered PJ a million years ago when he had his Chevy Blazer. We used to go on adventures looking for 4 wheel drive paths near the ocean whether Cape Cod, Rhode Island and even in New Hampshire and Maine. Basically anywhere we drove, if we saw what looked like a nice beaten path, we would check it out.

One year, Point Judith is what we found. You can't see from the picture but on the other side of the lighthouse is a jetty that form's a little inlet where you can go swimming. We have had a lot of fun there and hope to start bringing Matthew now that Memorial Weekend is here!

• The next picture is of a view towards a village near Padnoram, MA which is near South Dartmouth, MA. Again, I was lucky to find this picture from a real estate rental website. Unfortunately, the rentals are 3K a week, so we won't be taking advantage of the home.

Eric and I also discovered Horseneck Beach in Westport, MA which eventually led us to South Dartmouth. We love Padnoram Village and I tried like heck to get a picture to really show the beauty of the village that has been in existence since 1652. It is an old fishing village that is still a very active harbor and is now a very quaint New England coastal village with such beautiful charm. It is very small, yet very beautiful. Every house on the main road has beautiful gardens similar to the ones Nantucket is popular for.

• The last picture is another wonderful find on Flickr by saucygrrl's photostream. The trail is at Coonamesett Farm in Falmouth, MA.

Another favorite of mine. Eric and I found this before we bought our house. We would take our canoe and bring it down the cape with our blazer and one day, we said "Where does this trail go?" The trail in the picture doesn't show the beauty of what I'm trying to portray. I am hoping now with my digital camera to get back there to really show the place I'm talking about. The trail that we found is God's heaven on earth on the Cape. The trail we took led us through a deep dense forest with humongous trees (that got really hit with Hurricane Bob). The path led to Coonamessett Lake. It was like a Gold Mine find for us in those days and we have many wonderful memories of that time and place.

There are so many more beautiful places around New England that I love but Eric will kill me if I stay on the computer all morning. We have to make more memories, now with Matthew.