Happy 4th Birthday!!

 Everything is apparently easier when you turn four.  Colin woke up this morning and needed to show how much faster he was.  He could climb up on things that were 'impossible' before.  Being four is like gaining super powers.

"What kind of cake do you want Colin?"

"Uuummmmm...chocolate with M&Ms in it."

"What about the frosting?"

"Strawberry sounds fine."

 No problem blowing out the candles on the cake.

Doing some birthday Skype with Yaya this morning.

 Birthday spent at the beach.  Plenty of running away from, kicking, jumping over and riding boogies boards on waves

The rest of the birthday loot.

It has been pretty exciting start to August.  We have to save some pictures for the end of the month post though.

Here's his brithday interview.  Go back to last year's birthday post to see last year's interview.
Colin's 4th Birthday Interview  (Not working at the moment but try back tomorrow maybe)

Goodbye Massachusetts

With dates getting moved around for our closing on the house it kept us guessing for quite a while.  It did give a chance to do some more 'last' things before we left.  We were able to visit the train museum, take a train into Boston, go to Richardsons and visit with friends and family.  Luckily there are still people on the east coast that we will want to visit so 'last' probably isn't the right word.

Went for a nice walk in Ogonquit, ME while visiting some Findlen family

Paper airplanes are a big hit

Taking a canoe ride in the neighbor's canoe

Colonial style games at the train museum

Checking out some stuff under the microscope 

Should we be concerned he named a jar of mayonnaise? 

An interesting pose for the camera

 At Emmett's 3rd birthday party

What else will 3yr old boys do when there is a Thomas toy??

Taking a dip in the neighbor's pool

 A nice play date with Hazel

bubble time

A lot of time was spent  in the train tubs with Emmett

 The bank appraiser went around the house snapping pictures.  Colin decided it looked fun and asked to be given tours of the house.  He spent that time snapping pictures with his phone.

Doing some self initiated coloring

Watching the neighbors play street hockey

He felt important doing paperwork at the attorney's office

After Colin's last night in his room.  He slept in his tent.

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