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Day of Play

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Day of Play
Photo-A-Day #1569

If you take out me mowing hte lawn that was pretty much what the day was about, play and enjoying being together as a family.
We kicked off the morning with breakfast with our friend Michelle and her two kids Nate and Audrey. It was Michelle’s birthday today and to celebrate we had a nice breakfast together. Three little ones under 5 is an interesting combination. I sat across from Nate and next to Michelle who sat across from Allison who sat next to Eva and Eva across from Audrey. So we had the two under 2 at the end of the table in booster seats playing with a puzzle. Town Restaurant is known for having puzzles on the tables and at various times there are people working on them. They also have some little kid ones for families to play with. Nate had his own puzzle and we put it together, together. Breakfast was very good and the kids were good, Eva got a little loud and cranky so I took her outside a few times and walked her around and talked with her. She finally settled a bit and breakfast continued. When all was said and done we were well fed, enjoyed the company of our friends and got out of the house for a bit.

Got home from breakfast and started mowing the lawn. My brother-in-law and I are splitting the summer mowing duties, he did the 1st half and I have the second. It has been a while since I’ve mowed the lawn. It felt good actually. Nice to be outside. I saw a beautiful dragonfly and wished that I had my camera. I mowed the back yard first so that Allison and Eva could go play in Eva’s Sand/Water Table. I gave her my 4 Tonka replica trucks to play with in the sand. They were a “special gift” from American Express. Actually probably the best one of those promotions I ever participated in. When I finished mowing I grabbed my camera and joined Allison and Eva. We played in the back yard for a while, blowing bubbles (I have to get some better bubble solution, I went cheap and it shows, so frustrating) and playing in the sand table. I caught these additional shots while playing.

What Bubbles
Eva trying to use the bubble want "By myself!" misses the bubbles that Allison is blowing.

Pop!
Catching a bubble just formed floating away while another explodes.

Then it was time for naps, Eva took one and I went to read The Last Olympian but ended up falling asleep. When I woke up I finished the book, I really liked it, loved the whole series actually.

We decided that we weren’t going to stay inside on such a nice day so we headed to the Town Pool to cool off. Our town has a public pool with a large deep pool upstairs and a small baby pool downstairs. We went to the baby pool and Eva made some new friends. A couple of older boys. She’s a charmer. We spent a couple hours at the pool and then headed home for dinner and bed.

Eva has discovered the Paddington Bear that I got her while I was in London. She calls him “Tad-ing-Bear”. So tonight I read her the 50th anniversary Paddington Book, twice. And Allison read it to her once. When she finds something she likes she’s got to have a ton of it. I’m in trouble when she is into clothes.

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Photo-A-Day #1549

This morning I was up at 5:55am (so much for sleeping in or napping at the Cape). I ran over to the beach and started looking again for my wedding ring. No luck. My Dad was out even earlier and he talked to some of the guys who were out with metal detectors. He told them the story and also where we lived. I pretty much told anyone walking up the beach in that area the story. Still no luck.

So, after looking for a while I came home and edited my 4th of July Fireworks photos. I also worked on the photos from parade too. Dad made a big breakfast for us as well as for my Aunt and Uncle and their kids. They came up in their motor home and stayed the night. Eva was very happy to be playing with her buddy Amanda May. I think Eva ate about 14 breakfasts today, it was nuts. She just kept wanting more.

My Uncle Rich called to let me know that he was having a cookout and that one of my friends from high school would be there. So, we decided that we would go to the beach early in the morning and head home early to go to the cookout.

The beach was nice, the weather this weekend was gorgeous over all. It was windy but that just served to cool us down. I brought my snorkle and mask and spent about an hour wandering the close shoreline to search for the ring. Again I had no luck. At one point I saw a brilliant flash and my heart raced but it was only a piece of shiny ribbon.

It is amazing the connections that we have to other people. For instance my Uncle is dating the aunt of a friend of mine from high school and he just so happened to be visiting the same day that we would be visiting. We haven’t seen each other since High School either. Today on the beach I was reading one of the magazines from my big stack and a family friend came over and asked me about it. It was called Big Picture and was pretty much about large format printing. I received it randomly int he mail and had no idea what it was about. Well, our family friend used to write for the publication. We then spent the next 45 minutes talking about blogs and the printing industry. So many random connections happen all the time.

We headed home a little later than expected and got to Uncle Rich’s place for the Birthday Party (Happy Birthday Uncle Rich). Everyone but my friend’s Mom and Grandmother were over at Capron Park. We visited with them for a while and everyone returned. We spent a nice afternoon with my Uncle, his girlfriend, her sister and husband as well as mother. Then my friend and his wife and their son. It was great catching back up with Nick after so long. We even connected on Facebook so we will be able to continue to stay in contact.

Tomorrow we head up to NH to visit our brand new Niece! We are so excited.