Favorite

The tire swings!

"too busy"

To look at the camera says Nate

Back from the game!

He had fun

Gearing up

For practice in the backyard! Jack starts soccer on Saturday. He is on the light blue team in the local kindergarten league. It is not at all competitive- rather really just practice/ lessons with inter-team 3x3 "games" at the end.

Nate's First Day

Nate went off this morning for his first day of school. He is in the same school he was last year and has the same teachers Jack had 2 years ago. Everyone is quite familiar with the arrangement, including Nate! Here he is on the way out our door and the way in his classroom door!

Also, big news, Nate is finally potty trained. I say "finally" because it took us so long to start. I tend to err on the side of the kid being really really ready.  He was. It only took about 4 days and he seems good to go (in the potty:)

As a reward he got to pick out something at the lego store late last week.  He picked out a police helicopter. About 2 days later though, he had regrets and is now pouting for an off-road dump truck. ugh.

Backyard play

Back in the swing of things

Ok - bad joke, but jack is back to playgrounds!

Harvest time

We planted some peppers and tomatoes and have a grape tomato "weed" next to our compost. The kids are enjoying picking them...fresh salsa at dinner tonight!

First Day of Kindergarten!

It isn't a new school, though he has new teachers, room and many new classmates. We had a good drop off. No tears but some hesitation. Hopefully pick up is even better!

Storyland / North Conway Recap (late)

So in late August we took a trip to North Conway to go to Storyland, an amusement park for small(ish) kids. Many many people around here go annually, but I still wasn't quite sure what to expect. I was blown away. It was about a million times cleaner/nicer than I expected - the flowers/plantings were lovely, the buildings were super cute (themed usually) and the scale was perfect. Big enough that you felt like you were "far" from other parts of the park, but not so far that you couldn't wander as the kids see fit. Lines were short to medium, so they could go on the same thing over and over.

We drove up from MA to Lincoln, NH and went to Loon Mtn. At Loon we took a trip (or 3:) on their gondola. (See prior pic). The boys LOVED this.  We also walked around some cool walkways through the woods to find glacial caves (with Jack's arm it was hard to go in most, they were REALLY tiny).

From there we drove through a stretch of the scenic Kancamagus Highway to North Conway where we stayed. We had a low-key afternoon at the hotel pool and diner in our room.

The next morning the boys took the North Conway Scenic Rail tour, which they liked.  In the afternoon we headed to Storyland. We rode the Polar Coaster about 4 times in a row after a quick trip to it on the little train ride.  The pictures above were some of their other favorites..

Cardboard fun

On jacks last day before school starts

Those neighborhood big kids tire

Nate out!