Catching Up

Our town displays selections from all the elementary schools, Kate's line drawing was selected and hung proudly at Town Hall for awhile.

 This is a shot of a neighbors house.  See the trees in the background?  Half of one of those fell during a rainstorm.  It didn't do too much damage, but they did have to lift that huge branch over top of the house.

Not surprisingly Adam was fascinated and beyond distraction or bribe to look at the camera.  I love how children, specifically Adam in the case, treat their interests like a job. It was his duty to watch every movement of the operators, each limb being cut with the chain saw, and then every branch being chopped to bits in a big loud mulcher(?).  If I had pulled him away from this his wrath would have been great.  It was pretty cool.  

We went to the beach with some friends of ours on Memorial Day.  Their eldest son is 5.  Yep, Kate is 7 - she's a real pipsqueak.  These two had a great time together in the FREEZING water.  The kids got stuck at one point in a little river area off to the side and I had to kick them out on a boogie board.  It was so cold I couldn't breathe at first, but somehow these little toothpicks played for hours in that same water. 

Anna flew a kite for quite awhile, she ran up and down the beach displaying that exact grin.  The beach is my  happy place.