Cousins..Cousins..Cousins

Olivia and Lyla kicked off the summer this year by spending a lot of time with their cousins. We went to Maryland for baby Harlow's blessing and ended up staying the week and we are sure glad we did!

 

Lyla loved baby Harlow and continued to repeat "sshhh...baby sleeping" everytime she saw her.

We got back to New York just in time for the Haslam girls to drive down from Massachusetts for a fun weekend.

Before the horrible rain storm.

 After trekking through the city in the horrible rain storm.

Saturday afternoon we went to see the Broadway musical, Newsies. When the curtains opened on a scene of orphan boys, one of which had a crutch and severe limp...I knew this was going to be trouble for my tender-hearted Olivia. We didn't make it 10 seconds into the play before Olivia was crying and expressing great concern for the injured boy. I spent the next few minutes pretty much re-writing the script. "These boys are best friends and get to work together...how fun is that!" That didn't seem to ease her concern and gratefully she got up on my lap and went right to sleep.

 

 Although she slept through over half of the show, that didn't stop her from collecting autographs from some of the stars of the show. We may not have gotten our moneys worth out of the show ticket, but we sure got our moneys worth out of the show program, Olivia spent the next week looking through all the actor's headshots again and again, memorizing their names

We finished off our fun weekend by stopping in Times Square, got our picture and message on a big jumbo tron and enjoyed our 15 seconds of fame

It sure has been great having family move out East, hopefully we will enjoy more cousin filled weeks soon!

Lyla

Lyla has had a rough week. This was the second week she has been suffering from an unknown tropical illness. On top of that she also has strep throat. This week has been full of doctor appointments and a 9 hour visit to the Emergency Room. Yesterday she went to the hospital again for her second round of blood testing. As we left the hospital, Olivia decided that after all this, Lyla definitely deserved an ice cream...Lyla agreed!