Schools Out For Summer (unknowingly not posted last month)

Colin's first year of school is now over.  He thoroughly enjoyed it and definitely learned quite a bit.  He's even able to make a scribble of his name, if he doesn't feel like being silly instead.  I'm not sure if summer vacation is somehow hardwired into kids but when we started talking about school being all done for this year he started with requests of things to do.  He wanted to take a train into Boston, he wanted to go to the train museum, he wanted to go to Richardson's.  They weren't forgetten either.  He'll keep asking about doing these and other things.

As of right now we still aren't sure of where Colin will be going to school next year.  We've had 3 offers on the house fall through.  We are on the last one we'll take and there are still unknowns.  The family is on vacation for the 4th so we won't have answers until next week.  Dates keep getting moved and new things need to be figured out.  I think at this point we've come up with about ten different moving plans...and that still may not be enough.  We've also come up with staying plans as well.  So it's frustrating and stressful and we still have no certainty of where we'll be next month.

Always busy working on projects in the sand or dirt

working on his home depot truck with some friends

Guess who's allergic to amoxicillin??

Hanging out with some friends at "The Farm"

Spending the day with Emmett.  Touch a Truck and some sandbox time

Ready go go work in the mine
















He's been spending a lot of time having long conversations on his phone

Being a big boy and walking Blake all by himself, no daddy needed.

 Spending the day at the strawberry festival and then to Chief Wills Day (town fair)

The rides were not intimidating at all this year.  He set his sights on some that were a bit too big for him this year.

A balloon lizard named Lizzy

Taking a shot at the Quiet Game, or maybe this was the Be Still Game

Last day of school

"Colin, what is the medal for?"

"I'm the champion of school."

He was going to spend the night at Yaya's.  That morning when he was told it was time to get changed out of his pajamas he also packed his bag.

• 7 underwear
• 8 pants
• 5 sock pairs
• 6 pajama bottoms
• 1 pajama top
• 0 shirts

Very much into his train ride into Boston

 Seals at the Aquarium

The petting tank was pretty cool

Getting an aerial shot of the penguins

Checking out the large tank in the center of the Aquarium


Finished off the day with a picnic with Matt, Diana and Ollie

Here's the link again to the Google Drive folder with some videos
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwcX_qtUk2cyfmI3bWx6Q1puM1Y4LWxzOWpLMzFaYlhCNzE0R1FoSVdOVHIzd3FIUE4wVUE

DDAAAaaaaAAAAddd I Need A Thesaurus

Two things that Colin does frequently now are a long drawn out 'mom' or 'dad' that fluctuates in pitch.  We spend a lot of time figuring out the boundaries between telling mommy and daddy what to do and asking for help or expressing displeasure.  The other thing is wanting to know what every word means and most of the words that are used to define the first word.   He's a little sponge.  At school he is still pretty quiet and observant.  We'll get some daily reports on kids that cried or were upset or had a good day.  It's hard to believe that there are only a few weeks left of school.

We are giving the house a couple more weeks.  We've had maybe 40 or so people see our house between open houses and individual showings.  That hasn't brought the right person apparently.  There is always interest and discussion of what can be done along with questions about the property...but no sale yet.  We'll keep hoping for a little longer and take trips to the park or next door to hide while our house is being shown.

Next month we'll have some definite summer plans.

Helping out at storage and around the house

 Time to enjoy roasted Peeps

Mommy went to the cape for the weekend for her race.  (We didn't get any pictures)  Good job mommy!
Here's what we did while she was away

some Hobie cuddling

letting a little silk worm crawl on him

running from a "bee"

Some bugs are scary... some bugs are nice

Oh boy do we love checking books out at the library

Wrong day for the beach....cold and windy

Here was a good beach day

A little ingenuity to make things work

On the lookout for boats

Some more days getting out of the house for showings.  Going to the park or Yaya's or another park or another park or even another one or Jordan's furniture.

Can you spot the Colin in the picture?

comfy chair and aquariums

It was decided that an 'ouchy' on his foot needed some 'stuff'.  He was able to find and reach it and put it on his 'ouchy'.  He told us that his bed needed some 'stuff' too.  Did we notice before a showing???  No, no we did not.