Congratulations to Charlotte on her graduation Saturday!!  She’s been through a lot in the past year and still managed to secure a Top 10 position in her class, as well as National Honor Society.  On to Fordham Univertisty in the fall!

Hailey was soooo well behaved at the graduation and the party at Robin and Kevin’s afterward.  There was so much going on, and so many people to play with, that she didn’t take a nap.  At all.  All day long she was going full tilt, running around and being silly.  Here’s a few photos from Saturday.

Wow.  We really got some nice weather this weekend!  Beautiful sun all day long Sat, Sun, and Monday!  Andrea didn’t have to work (just Friday night), so we all spent a whole weekend together, it was awesome.  Saturday, Hailey and I went on a couple really long walks around the city (while Andrea got some sleep after her overnight shift), stopping here and there at playgrounds.  Saturday night, the 3 of us went down to Pawtucket to see the Paw Sox play.  This was Hailey’s 3rd baseball game, and this time she was really into it!  Her first was May 2 of last year, Jon Lester’s 1st start back from cancer; and we also went to Hadlock to see the Sea Dogs last Father’s Day.  Hailey got her own seat on Saturday, and got completely sugared up.  She was clapping and cheering, mostly just being silly.  By 7pm, her usual bedtime, she got extra silly and was having a blast!  So well behaved, not a single peep or fuss for the whole game.

Sunday, Andrea cashed in her Christmas present of a 2.5 hour spa package downtown.  We all walked down there to find the place (right on Boylston, near Copley and the Public Library).  Hailey and I took a looong walk back through the Public Garden and the Common, across the city back to the North End.  Sat evening,  we went over to Uncle Nate’s (our good friend Nate Burke) apartment in Revere for some hot dogs and hamburgers, and more playtime.  Great weather and more fun.  Monday morning we went over to Doyle’s restaurant in Jamaica Plain where I / we used to live.  This is one of Gary and Julie’s favorite places to go eat.  It’s an old Irish pub, with a lot of Boston history.  Ever seen the movie “Mystic River”?  The bar in the beginning of that film is Doyle’s.  It’s also been in quite a few movies, and used to be the choice watering hole for Mayor Flynn, who used to get smashed there and then jog home when the bar closed.  Or so the story goes.

After breakfast, we headed to the Franklin Park zoo.  I’d never been there, and this was Hailey’s first ever zoo trip.  We saw a lion, who got all bent out of shape at the spectators and started roaring (worth the price of admission in my book), we saw giraffes, tigers, and Hailey got to see lemurs!  By far her favorite ‘lil monkey because she loves the show Zaboomafu, which features a ring-tailed lemur as the main character.

The two videos below are Hailey’s encounter from Monday with the lemurs, and a video of her at the North End playground from a couple weeks ago.  The playground is right around the corner from our apartment.

 
Hailey and the lemurs from Evan McIntire on Vimeo.

Hailey at North End Playground from Evan McIntire on Vimeo.
 
Hailey at North End Playground #2 from Evan McIntire on Vimeo.

EDIT:  I cannot get the videos to actually embed here in the site.  Something’s up w/ the code and you’ll just need to click the links to see the videos. 

Cameron and I put together a bunch of photos from Mom’s Mother’s Day gift, which is a digital picture frame.  Thought I’d share them for the heck of it.  They qualify for the site, as Cam is playing the role of “Baby McIntire” in these shots.

Andrea went to visit Lisa (my cousin) yesterday while Uncle Ian, Uncle Jon, and myself were working at the tree farm getting ready to plant trees next weekend.

Ella is the oldest, Lucy is just a little younger than Hailey (by 1 month or so).

Geez, we’ve been busy. Not much time to update this blog, and our internets at home are pretty much non-existent. So I’m updating this from work.

Last weekend, our friend, Kristina, came up from DC to interview for a new job in Boston and to visit us. Clcik on the link below to see the pics.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kmj1659/sets/72157604658144907/

Ok, I admit we’re bad friends and relatives…  We haven’t updated in forever!

Hailey turned one a few weeks ago.  She had a big party with lots of our friends.  Unfortunately, her friends Jack and Lupe couldn’t make it to the party.  We missed them a lot!

She’s becoming this incredibly active little girl, who loves to give hugs and pet animals.  She’s walking pretty steadily now, I’m sure running is coming next! 

Our neighbors upstairs had a little boy a few weeks ago, and Hailey loves to go up and visit baby Jackson.  She looks at him and then pretty much ignores him unless he’s awake and kicking.  She likes to take of his socks and touch his feet!

I will update some pictures later today!

Last weekend (October 6th), we went to Milford for the Pumpkin Festival.  It’s a similar event to York’s Harvestfest, but a little bigger, and with a trebuchet to launch pumpkins into the pond with.  They had some of the largest pumpkins I’ve ever seen (since the first Pumpkin Fest I went to 4 years ago).  I’m guessing this one right here was at least 1,500 lbs.

There was also a huge pile of little pumpkins for kids to pick from, or in Hailey’s case, to sit down amongst and let Daddy take pictures.  She didn’t get one of these wussy pumpkins, Papa grew a great big one in his garden for her.  (I wonder if she’d fit inside it?)

This weekend, on Saturday morning, we went to my co-worker Kevin and his wife Shannon’s apartment in West Roxbury.  Kevin has a 3 year old daughter, Lupe (Loo-pay), and a 1 year old son, Jack.  Hailey loves going to play with them, and they love having Hailey come over to play.  Here’s Jack and Hailey in the stroller at the park near their apartment.

Hailey loves the swings, she laughs and makes all kinds of noise when you put her in one.  Now Jack’s almost twice Hailey’s size, but the swings themselves are decent sized.  So we thought, “Could we fit both of them in 1 swing without squishing them?”

Why yes we can!…, and Lupe insisted that she would push them.  (press play to watch).