Great-Aunt Loretta came to visit for two weeks from Hong Kong and so we spent a long weekend up in Connecticut visiting Great-Uncle Savio. Packing the car was oh-so-fun as usual although not quite as painful as our last trip to Hong Kong. I figure it was practice for us to get ready for our trip to France in August.

Chloe was loving the grassy lawn, the wide open spaces… she completely rearranged practically everything in Savio’s house and we were able to avoid breaking anything! =0)

I know every mom says the same thing about her kids, particularly her daughter. But Chloe has a really special place in my heart and when she gives me these rare, little smiles of her, she melts my heart. She’s my sweetie.

Chloe having a grand ol’ time running around a huge grassy lawn. I think it actually might be her first “real” lawn and not that NYC astro-turf stuff…

And this video just makes me laugh. I buy some sidewalk chalk for Chloe and what does my mom draw? A hop scotch. Chloe’s two years old. How is a two year old going to grasp hop scotch? Ha ha. I think it’s even funnier that while my mom is explaining it, Chloe decides to EAT the chalk. HA.

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The picture on the left was one of forty I believe. That’s how many attempts it takes to get a semi-decent picture of both my kids at the same time. And the picture on the bottom right is my son asleep during a mid day nap and clearly there’s too much room in his crib because he has to warp himself into this contorted shape in order to fall asleep AND he has to bury the blanket in his face. Sigh. Silly man.

And this was a video while we were trying to get said picture above… as you can see, they didn’t sit well together for very long.

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Sebastien spent most of the weekend being abused by the adults – there was so much open space that we would just make him walk back and forth between us and he seems to be getting the hang of it! He’ll even let go and start walking on his own (granted of course there’s motivation… i.e. food that you have that he wants).

This walking video was the beginning of the weekend…

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And this video was when we returned and went to the schoolyard across the street. Lots of great progress in just a few short days! Although I think Sebastien was just running away from the crazy stalker girl…

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Rompers are amazing. I wish they made adult rompers and they were cool. Who doesn’t want one outfit on a summer day that’s a t-shirt and shorts in one?