Summer Fun

We are having such a great summer of outings and activities!  The stars have all aligned where our work schedule has become more flexible (therefore allowing us to do some errands during the week or in the evenings instead of it consuming the weekends) at the same time as the weather has gotten pretty at the same time as Lizzie has been able to stretch into early (or occasionally even mid!) afternoon before needing a nap.

A few recent highlights:

We went to the Science Museum on Saturday to check out the Pixar exhibit, which was awesome! 

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You know it was a well done exhibit because each of the 4 of us loved it and learned a lot. 

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Now, I think all Lizzie learned was the name of some Pixar characters, but still.  Before we left we checked on how long the exhibit will be up because we want to go back again.  And we are hopeful that Nicholas will learn more the second time when he isn't so overwhelmed with trying to just see everything and touch everything and so is willing to read more of the signs and think through what it is that he is actually doing at each activity.  We had lunch in the cafeteria in seats overlooking the river (watching boats!) and because of the 4th of July it was pretty calm.  And then of course we had to go see the dinosaurs because Lizzie loves them.  She spent the entire time Nicholas and Joe were in a lightning show (half an hour?) playing with these dinosaur pieces

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and every few minutes would look at the T-rex behind her and shout "saur!" with glee and then roar.

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Sunday I took the kids down to the zoo and they had a grand old time.  They each had a few animals they couldn't get enough of. 

From 2015 July

From 2015 July

From 2015 July

And then I had actually remembered to bring their swim stuff so they could go in the water play area, which they loved even more.  I'm glad I did a 2 hour round trip drive so they could run through a sprinkler!

From 2015 July

From 2015 July

From 2015 July

From 2015 July

While my parents were here we also went to Salem on one of the camping days and went to a pirate museum that was really good but much more appropriate for a 10-year-old than a 6-year-old. 

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And once we are all back together we went to the concert on the town green.  They have these concerts every Friday evening in the summer that are free and fun and the essence of a community and I always have to pinch myself because I can hardly believe that such places actually exist.

From 2015 July

From 2015 July