Catching Up

Are you ready for a bunch of pictures to make up for not posting for a whole week? Will that make everything right again?

I mean, what if I show you a picture of Kingston and me at the park? Kingston's not looking at the camera but I am. Sometimes it's about me. Most of the time it's about Kingston. Just this once it is about me. Thank you very much.

What if I show you a picture of my big boy going down the slide all by himself? Are you feeling me?




Or is it going to take this picture of the cutest boy on the planet (or at least at Hayman Park one day last week) to make you forgive me?

Apparently it is going to take a few really sweet pictures of Kingston at the beach to persuade you to continue reading my blog.



Will you promise not to turn Kingston and Pappy in for playing on the dune? I'm sure it wasn't legal but they both had a ton of fun! I'm really not asking for much here.

Now you know you couldn't possibly still be mad after all of that. And if you are, please look at this cute picture of Lee and Kingston. Kingston doesn't look so great but Lee does! She and her husband Chris are in town from Brooklyn for a few days. Kingston and I had a great time at her party on Monday night.





There now. Please forgive. But please don't forget. I will post another fun one again soon. Thank you, come again.

Trick or Treat Under the Sea

Trick or Treat Under the Sea is chaotic. It is busy. It is packed. It is a lot of fun if you are, oh, maybe 4 years old or older. If you are a 10 month old baby, it is pretty much insane. The North Carolina Aquarium does a really great job putting this on every year. This was our first time going and I was really impressed with the costumes, decorations, and turn-out. Kingston will love it in a few years.

And I forgot my camera. So no actual pictures of the chaos. Luckily, I took some photos of Kingston before the Mommy and Me party on Monday. He wasn't a big fan of the hat. Drat.

He's a pretty cute engineer. I, for one, would go anywhere his train was heading!

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Before we met up with Nigel at the Aquarium (yay, Dad is home!), we went over to Eden's parents' house for Little Miss' birthday party. She is 2 years old today! Happy Birthday Riya! Kingston loved playing with Riya's toys and checking out the other kiddies. We got to see Missy's mom and sister, too, who I hadn't seen since Missy's wedding last year when I was only a few weeks pregnant and wasn't telling anyone. (Missy, have I made you significantly jealous yet? I'm sorry!) We left before cake, but we had a fun time at the party.

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Well, as I mentioned, Nigel is home. I have missed him this week. I'm going to go chat with him before I hit the sack. We've been partying all day. I'm pooped!

Preppy Pastel Party

We just got home from a party. It was a 30th birthday party and the theme was Nantucket/Preppy/Pastels. We had to do some shopping to come up with our "costumes" since there is not a whole lot of preppy stuff in the Haynes household! I sort of strayed from the theme and went with whatever would fit. I had to go out and buy Nigel an Izod polo shirt from Belk. Kingston had a hand-me-down outfit from Sarah's little boy, Tyler, that was perfect. It was an argyle sweater vest and plaid pants. He wore his skull and crossbone leather shoes that matched. He was so stinking cute in his outfit. His paci even matched!

The party was pretty fun. It was outside at a beautiful house on the sound in Nags Head. The weather was perfect and there was yummy food. I could have eaten all of the sweet potato biscuits with country ham but people were starting to stare so I limited it to 5. We left about 9 because Kingston's little bobblehead was rolling around. The final straw was when he had his hand in a cup of icewater for about 2 minutes while his eyes were nearly closed and he didn't even seem to notice the frozen fingers.

Fun family outting. . . even if we did have to be preps for the evening. At least we got some cute pictures out of the deal! My men look good as preps. . . but I'm glad they don't dress like that all the time!