A birthday, a lost tooth, a new puppy and a princess

Cannot believe Aidan is seven years old already. Everyone enjoyed spending the afternoon together on October 11 (birthday actually is the 10th) and we celebrated Aidan's birthday with him and his very best buddy, Garin. Aidan is so into everything Star Wars from the Star War toys to the extraordinary Star War lego sets. It will be easy Christmas shopping for him. He did get some nice Star War additions and he also got a new bicycle.
Emma has wanted to get a new puppy for a very long time now and there were some precious cocker-poo pups available at a residence between their house and ours. Well, they went to look and Emma chose a cute blonde cocker-poo - she is more cocker than poodle and has the biggest, prettiest brown eyes. Emma named her Angel because she said she looks like an Angel.
Emma has had a lose tooth for about 2 months now and it finally came out on Friday. She has the new permanent replacement coming in already, so she will not have an open gap for long! She and Audrey spent the night here with Nana and Da last night as Aidan spent the night at his best friend, Garin's house because it was Garin's 7th birthday this week. Audrey loves to wear the princess crown and wave the wand......she is precious! This gave Kim and Josh a chance to have a whole evening together alone. Of course it gives Nana and Da the opportunity to have a special time with the girls. Heather, Josh and Rembe came by for a visit too so they could see the new addition. Rembe loved the new puppy.
Here are pictures to verify all the above information:

Aidan and Garin



Emma and Angel and then Emma and her missing tooth



Princess Audrey



Rembe came to get acquainted with Angel too!

Trip to Maine

Harvey and I went up to Portland, ME on September 24 and spent three wonderful days up there before the downpour from Hurricane Kyle moved in. We spent 2 days at Acadia National Park, which is absolutely beautiful. We went atop of Cadillac Mountain and saw some spectacular views! We were very fortunate to have done this on the first day since the clear views were getting dimmer due to all the cloud cover coming in from the storm system.
We spent one day walking through Bar Harbor, ME. There were a couple of cruise ships that had anchored on that same day, so it was pretty crowded. But they have plenty of lovely cafes where you can just sit, drink coffee, play board games, read or just people watch. We enjoyed the latte and played scrabble for awhile and after Harvey won (he always gets the triples!), we just enjoyed the views.
They have a lot of lovely bed and breakfast places and lots of cottages that you can rent. It is very, very busy in the summer they told us and for the snow lovers it must be a wonderful place to be too. While we were walking and driving around and seeing all the bed and breakfast's, all I could picture in my mind was the old situation comedy with Bob Newhart and Suzanne Pleshette and I told Harvey I was sure that I saw Larry, Larry and the other brother Larry around there at a few places!
We spent the last afternoon, just as the storm was coming in on a whale watching boat. They forewarned everyone that it would be an exceptionally rough ride due to the arriving storm and they could not promise us if we would be able to make out as far as the whales were for that same reason. Oh, it was a rough ride alright, I upchucked once, but that was all. It was all worth it because we saw a fantastic array of hump back whales. There was a whale expert from the local marine biology school on board who gave us all the information about the whales and could tell so much about them as we enjoyed their antics. Here are a few pictures I was able to snap.