Back to Sea Girt!

After our visit to the Hamptons, we stopped in to visit Jim's parents again. We had another great stay with Mr. & Mrs. Tuite. Mrs. Tuite always takes great care of everyone...she cooks, helps with laundry that piles up during our travels and watches Allison when I go to the beach. Mr. Tuite & Jim watch Allison as well, but she usually ends up back in Grandma's arms :).

As you can see Allison hung out with her Dad and got to spend some time playing with cousin Connor. Connor lives in Cranford, NJ with Mom (Sue) and Dad (Rich, Jim's oldest brother). We were happy to see cousin Connor and uncle Rich. We missed aunt Sue this visit(she has a long commute in/out of NYC everyday), hopefully we can see her in the fall. We are hoping to get all the grand kids together for the first time in October. Joe (second oldest brother) is coming to NJ and bringing cousin Camille and Aunt Leah (who is caring the newest Tiny Tuite, a boy due in December!).

West Hampton, NY

Allison went to West Hampton, NY to meet "Aunt Samantha"!! Allison was nice enough to ask her Dad and I to accompany her on the trip. We had a great time visiting Samantha and her baby Jordie (in the picture above). The weather wasn't great, so we didn't get to enjoy the pool or the beach. But we did get to enjoy spending quality time together at the upscale shopping outlets!! (I think that is what most people in the Hamptons do most of the time.) We also ate like we would never be offered food again once we left the Hamtons! Samantha cooked us a great meal, we ate at wonderful restaurants and visited a local bakery each morning.
Samantha and I have been friends since highschool. She was an exchange student at a different school, we were introduced by a mutal friend. I agreed to show her around town one afternoon( in Lancaster, PA) and we've been friends ever since. She is from Edinburough, Scotland. She married a great guy in NYC and move to stated about 11 years ago. It's great that we are both on the East Coast and see each other from time to time!

Solid Food

Allison is officially eating solid food. We added rice cereal to her diet on August 1, she seemed to like it. I started letting her play with a spoon in her highchair at grown-up meal time (aka mommy & daddy meal time) a few weeks before. I would give her a spoon full of air and she would make a silly face, like it tasted sour. I never knew air had a taste but apparently it is sour. We were amused by the face, she made it with every spoon full of air for weeks.

I was curious to see what face she would make when I gave her the first spoon full of cereal...in went the spoon full cereal and she didn't make a face. She ate it and looked at me like she had been eating it forever.

She has worked up to two rice ceral meals a day. I know I should add other foods (fruits &veggies). Maybe we'll try something new this weekend!