Niagara Falls

We headed out on our adventure very early Saturday morning. Our drive to Niagara was long, longer than it could have been, but when you're traveling with little ones it can be unpredictable! Throw in an hour long detour and we were finally able to reach the falls. Yes, it was raining, but the falls are misty anyway, so it didn't bother us-we were just glad to be out of the car! We were able to stop and see how beautiful the falls are-none of us had ever been, have dinner and head back on the road. We stopped in Syracuse, NY for the night-and to catch the end of the ND game. Sunday we started on the road again-making much better time! We got to Dover in only 6 hrs of driving with only one stop-pretty good, thank you to my children (and the magic of a DVD player in the car) for being pretty darn good while spending so much time in the car for 2 straight days! We arrived in Dover yesterday evening to nothing but gloomy rain. We had dinner and made a run to Target to stock the kitchen in our room and settled in to our new home for the next 5 days:) We don't have much of a plan at this point because what we get to do depends on Artie's work schedule. I am hoping to see as many things as possible while we are here because we've never been, it's Spencer's 1st big trip, and New England is just awesome!! I do know that I will be sad to leave here because I love it, but knowing that we get to see Cindy and Tom-and meet Colten!!!!!-on our way back makes it much easier to leave:)!! For now, I'm enjoying the fact that's it's actually sunny here today and my kids are getting back into their normal routine! Much more of our adventures to come...

Oh yea, and by the way, I chopped off all of my hair off. I think that everything we have been going through with Spencer caught up with me and I did something crazy and outrageous by cutting my hair super short! I'm no Halle Berry or Victoria Beckham, but I'm totally loving the short amount of time it now takes to be done! Also, on another side note-I have clearly not posted in a while-Spencer had his 4 mo. check Friday before we left. I am so happy to report that the hydrocele we were worrying about has apparently cleared up on it's own because she said she did not feel any fluid-big sigh of relief!! On the other hand, we did have a conversation about what we should be watching for if Spencer's bowel starts narrowing where it was sewn back together instead of growing with the rest of his intestines...I really need this to end and not worry anymore! But, at the moment he is doing great! He now weighs 13 lbs. 11 oz. (25th percentile) and is 24 and 1/2 inches long:)

Though it doesn't look like it here, Spencer was actually really enthralled with the falls!

Daddy and Avery-she wanted to get too close for mommy's comfort to the edge of this observation tower we were on and did not like being held!

A little shot of the observation deck we were on and to the left is Canada.

Such a beautiful part of our country...those blue specs at the bottom-yep, those are people!

Such a cute picture. Avery wanted Spencer to "sit with me" as she says...this was taken before we left.

This is what Spencer loves to do-watch everything his big sister does! I laughed at your comment, Cindy, about Colten and his bumbo because Avery even still fits in it!