What a fantastic treat! Maddie loves to pull meals together for the family. This was a bit of a sad time for our refrigerator with not many options, but, Maddie did so much with so little. A lettuce roll sandwich, artfully cut watermelon with raspberries, and a salad with pinenuts even. Note the shapes and layout on the plates. Quite the artistic eye!
Farewell to 1st Grade! It was a great year with Maddie learning a ton and having a lot of fun. The years are, unfortunately, flying by. She's so big and grown up all of a sudden. We couldn't be prouder.
We found a perfect picnic spot with views of Boston.
And a tree to climb! There are no climbing trees in our yard so at every opportunity, the kids scamper up the climbable ones.
And best of all, a stone beach. The boys could have stayed here for hours. Nathan took a siesta with the nice ocean breeze blowing his hair (some of that sentence is true). He had biked the Harpoon Brewery to Brewery Tour yesterday (143 miles) so was a bit spent.
Our girl added to her sea glass collection.
A chilly ride back to Boston.
And a nap the second he was strapped into the car.
Monkey see..
Maddie was quite the strawberry picker. She didn't snack and prided herself on finding the reddest, ripest strawberries!
Guess who ate quite a few?
There's nothing like a tree swing with super long ropes.
Old fashioned games - the egg race fell apart with tears (Theo) as did the sack race. We decided it was time for lunch and some treats in the shade.
I needed to push Theo in the stroller so Maddie piggy backed Gabriel to our car. Such a helper!
The kids took tennis lessons this spring, Maddie with three of her friends and Theo with Bijan. He really loved it! The Windsor Club has clay courts which are great I learned. Theo looked forward to each lesson and showed such improvement at the end. The last lesson was held in the rain (and he chose his shoes, not exactly fit for tennis). Having the kids develop interest in the sport, even helped Nathan back onto the court, with a new racquet and shoes! I'd like to take lessons someday. Nathan said he could teach me but I think it might be better to have a neutral party help me out!
Uncle Johnny came for a visit! It was such a festive atmosphere in our house leading up to his visit. He's like a big kid himself which the kids just love. He got quite a taste of our life on Friday with drop offs, 1st grade class picnics, appointments, soccer games and the like. The boys had fun with him at Maddie's soccer game - running the bases, playing on the playground and of course, watching Maddie play.
We went into Boston for some seafood at the Barking Crab, a Boston institution. While fun, we feel no need to go back. We did see a ginormous lobster and have a nice walk along the water. Johnny and Nathan saw the Red Sox on a drizzly day too.
Jonathan loves the hero worship from the boys.
Our last outing was a Segway ride through Boston, thank you groupon. While Nathan made considerable fun of us, we weren't to be discouraged. We had a complete blast. It was a fantastic tour with just the two of us seeing Boston from a different perspective. We cruised up by the Boston Common and were laughing to think that we might segway by Maddie's class on a field trip! Nathan was chaperoning and we could just picture ourselves, shouting and waving to him. We finished off J's visit with a drive to the Providence airport and a yummy seafood lunch. We hope he comes back soon!
