Grover Cleveland Birthplace

We are working on our state parks book (They have a book here in New Jersey that every state park you go to you get a sticker and then prizes for every 10 stickers). One of the state parks was Grover Cleveland's Birthplace (click the link to find out more about him). Just in case you don't know Grover Cleveland was the 22nd and 24th President of the United States. He is also buried here in Princeton (more on that later). So the history buff in me thought this would be fun to go and see and we could get our sticker for our book. We went up there had a picnic lunch on the lawn and a private tour of the house. Lots of fun. Here are some pictures from our adventure.

 

Anya chillin' during the picnic

 Aspyn and Anya having fun on the blanket

 Here is Aspyn inside the house. They had some period clothing that you could dress up in. It took some coaxing (she was being shy) but I thought she looked pretty cute!

The outside of the house. Most of it is still in its original condition because it belongs to a church (his father was a pastor and that's where the pastor and his family lives) and so since the people living there didn't change anything because it wasn't theirs to change.

 There was a little shed in the back that I wanted to take some pictures of Aspyn in front of. I couple a few before the batteries in my camera died.

Big Sister

Aspyn is such a great big sister. She is always wanting to hold Anya and play with her. It makes it nice for me when I need to get stuff done. Here are a few pictures that I found on our camera in the last little bit.

Aspyn sharing her sunglasses. Sometimes we wonder how much Anya likes what Aspyn does to her until we see this...

the biggest smiles ever on Anya. She loves all the attention that Aspyn gives her, even if you think she shouldn't like what is happening to her sometimes!

I put Anya down on the floor one Sunday while Josh and I were getting dinner put together and Aspyn decided to share her pillow and blanket (and for those of you who know how much Aspyn loves her blanket you know that is a big deal)! Aspyn even moved her all by herself (luckily Anya was still in one piece)!

Anya's firsts

I took some of these pictures awhile ago and am just now getting around to blogging about them. The first is Anya's first solids. We started her at 4 months and she really didn't like it so much as you can tell from the pictures. She has since changed her mind about them but only some of them. We thought she would love peaches but not so much, she is a pretty picky eater. Here are her pictures of her first rice cereal.

Then we gave her carrots for the first time and that didn't go over well at all. I had to take pictures of the funny faces that she was making and then we stopped torturing her (you can clink on the image to enlarge and see the great faces she was making).

In other first for Anya we pulled out her bouncer toy that she can stand in a play with her toys and she (and Aspyn) love it. It's fun when for her because it makes her feel like she can be a part of things now.