Doggies enjoying the water

Look at this cute video of Copper and Cabot catching sticks in the water. See how Cooper glides in, so gracefully? And then look at Cabot - he always jumps in like a clumsy ox because he is so excited that he can't control himself. Sapphie loves watching them swim.

Pucker up

Sapphie loves lemons.

And beer!

Uh-Oh!

Sapphie loves to say "uh-oh!", especially when we go into her room in the morning or after a nap, and she's decided to throw all of her snugglies out of the crib. As soon as you walk in, she says "uh-oh!" and points to the pile of things on the floor. It is so cute. She also does it with food - drops it on the floor for the dogs and says "uh-oh!" as they lap it up.
Well this week, Sapphie had a big uh-oh. She was playing ride the lamb with Uncle Isaac, and got a little caught up in the excitement. Before he could say "calm down!", Sapphie was rocking like a wild woman, threw her hands in the air, and went tumbling backwards off the little lamb. She twisted on the way down, landed smack on her right shoulder, and broke her collarbone. Poor thing!

Here she is a few months ago, enjoying the rocking lamb. Go horsey!!

And today, here she is being very sad for an xray at the hospital.
We felt terrible for her, but she was a good girl.And here is the xray. See the White dot on her collarbone, below and to the right of her jawbone? That's the break.

Isaac says the rocking lamb is evil. I say, better to hurt yourself having a blast than being tortured or stranded somewhere! Yes, that's me, always thinking the worst. Sapphie though, although a little sore, was giving her lamb some loving squeals today. I think she'll be riding again by the end of the week!

The End of A Season - Spring Skiing (by Kevin)

Easter Weekend in New England brought record temperatures to the area. Saturday and Sunday brought temperatures in the high 70's and low 80's. Emma, Sapphire, Colin, Soe, Hannah and I all went to Newport for Easter. It had been a long time since everyone was in Newport together and everyone was looking forward to the weekend away from Burlington. Soe, Colin and I planned a day at Jay Peak on Saturday. What a day it was. The sun was high and temperatures were in the 80's and we took advantage of the day and spent it skiing and riding at Jay Peak. It was an amazing time and everyone was in short sleeves and sun screen. It seems that last year Soe and Colin found ourselves with a similar day in Southern Vermont at Stratton and this year we ended up at Jay. Maybe this will become an end of season tradition for us. It was such an amazing day to end the season in. Check out the pictures below of the day.

Rollin up on Jay Peak

A beautiful day on Jay, Colin and Soe soaking up the sun

K Dogg ready for a killer day on the slopes

A couple more rides before the end of the season on the Jay Tram

Soe riding the rollers

Soe Making Turns

Burton's New Woman's Model - Penelope Wall Alger

Colin Riding the Rails

Best in Show - Mr. Jay Peak 2010 - Colin Alger

Best in Show - Miss Jay Peak 2010 - Unknown Woman

Hope to see you next year on the mountain.

K Dogg

Sweet Spring

The month of March was just beautiful. We had amazing sunny weather, and did lots of fun activities. Early in the month, we went down to the condo and had the Manguals come to visit. It was SO much fun, and I think the kids really had a blast. Gabe and Julia were so cute with Sapphie! They each brought her a toy to play with, and Sapphie especially loved the little motorized monster truck that Gabe brought. She played with it every morning. They both call her "Sapphie-phire", which made me laugh. The weather was really nice, so we were able to do lots of walking and hanging out on the deck. On Saturday, Gabe took a ski lesson and Christina and I enjoyed the Spring Festival and Lincoln Peak with the babies and Julia. Julia got her face painted with a beautiful butterfly. Sapphie and Luke were really funny together! They are almost the same height, and they just stared at each other. Sapphie tried to kiss Luke a few times, but she was a little too aggressive for his taste! It's really neat watching the babies grow up together, and watch them take on their own personalities. We missed them as soon as they left, and I can't wait for our next visit.

Here are Kevin and Sapphie, walking around at Lincoln Peak after a day of skiing

And here are the kids in the antique ski chair. Julia was supervising the babies

The next big spring activity was the Annual Vermont Sugar Houses Open House weekend. We only went to one sugar house - to Taft's Milk and Maple. They are in Huntington and are one of Kevin's customers. They've got a herd of Jersey cows, so we thought it would be fun for Sapphie to see the sugar house and to pet the cows. She had a BLAST, and definitely got her fill of sugar!

With Daddy in front of the sugar house

Looking at cows with Mummy

Yummy, homemade maple doughnuts!

Sapphie has also been exploring all sort of new foods. I try to make her foods from her heritage - Puerto Rican, Italian, English, and Lebanese. So far, she's loved everything, especially Puerto Rican food. I really haven't given her enough Lebanese though, so I busted out my Arabic cookbook and she's been loving it! Tonight we're making meat pies, taboolee, and hoomus (hummus!). They spell it funny.

She goes crazy for hummus!

And here are some more photos and LOTS of video for you to enjoy: