Where does the time go...

No excuses, I'm a bad blogger.  It's been months with no update.  Rather than bore you with every detail I can actually remember, I'll let pictures do most of the talking.

 The summer wrapped up with us heading to the Erie County Fair, celebrating Maeve's 2nd birthday, and taking lots of walks and bike rides to the farmers market and to get ice cream.  You'll notice in many of these pictures that Maeve's hair is growing like crazy and on most days is a big, hot mess by the end of the day.

 Our time at the fair was more about eating and visiting with the livestock.  We didn't do any rides or games but she didn't seem to mind that in the least.  We had to walk through animals buildings twice so she could see them all.

 We celebrated Maeve's birthday with a small party and she loved all of the attention.  We did a Mickey themed party due to her love of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and had a perfect day.  Big surprise, but she loved eating cake and getting presents.  On her actual birthday we were very low key and just played with her new toys and having some more cake. Along with the theme, she got a Minnie soccer ball and Minnie & Daisy airplane.

 Cake was from Rich's and was delicious.

  We've been keeping busy with special occasions.  Here she was rocking out her sunglasses on our way to our friend Levon's 1st birthday.  And she got a special day/sleepover with a visit to the zoo with Nana, Aunt Elizabeth, and her cousins Drew & Evan.

Maeve is officially on the first day of school schedule and moved up to the 2 year old classroom in early September.  She is now a Purple Dino in Miss Anne's & Miss Denise's classroom.  Big changes include no binkys during nap time and learning to potty train at school.  This was a "hot mess" morning with her hair as she wouldn't let me put in a ponytail or clip.  We are attempting to grow her bangs out and train her hair but without her cooperation, it can be difficult. 

A trip to the park on a wet day.  I think she looks so old in the green pants picture.  And celebrating Ryan's birthday with Nana and Papa.  I just grabbed a couple desserts from Butterwood that we all could share.  

With the weather getting colder, we've been pulling out some bins of clothes that have gotten passed down from our bigger cousins.  Maeve's favorite by far is a purple Dora the Explorer bathrobe.  She loves to put it on after the tub and come down to show off.  She does look adorable and it's very soft so I completely understand her love. To the right is Maeve accessorizing before we headed out to run some errands.  

Halloween was pretty low key this year as Ryan was traveling for work and the weather was pretty wet.  It was warm so we took advantage of one of last days in the 60s and got our butterfly dress on and rode the bike to our friends' house to trick or treat.  I didn't get a picture of the Runfolas but they looked great and Maeve was so excited for the candy that each of them gave her.  Next we made it to O'Connors to see Kane & Brady.  Everyone was so excited to get started trick or treating and I expect next year will be more eventful.  We rode home and started handing out candy instead of hitting anymore houses.

 Ryan got home the next day so we got our dress back on and Ryan got his Halloween costume from his work party on and had a dance party with Maeve.  Ryan is dressed as Jake & Finn from Adventure Time cartoon, which I had no idea existed, but he looks silly and Maeve thought was hysterical.

And last, but certainly not least, here is a glimpse of Baby Daley #2.  He or She is due on March 27th and we are very excited for it's arrival.  I've had a very similar pregnancy experience thus far as I did with Maeve so here's hoping it continues.  No sickness, just tired most of the time.  I think that is partly/mostly due to Maeve and try to keep up with a 2 year old.    No promises but will try to be better with pictures going forward!