Heather and Caroline took a trip to Atlanta to see Grandma Lu. Next up for Caroline's reading list: Nancy Drew.
Meanwhile Dave took Erin to her first Scooper Bowl, an all-you-can-eat ice cream fundraiser for charity
and Erin accomplished one of those timeless childhood milestones: riding a bike. The all-dirt softball infield was the key terrain for her breakthrough.
On a long nature walk with Tessie and Erin we found this old gal doing her thing right next to a busy playground
Holy squeaking fangs! Max was found cornering this bat on the living room floor. Dave donned his leather fireplace glove and threw the bat outside, but now we know that proper protocol is to subdue the bat alive and call animal control to allow for a rabies test. Since Max's rabies was up to-date, he only had to go to the vet for a booster as a precaution.
After 19 years in Boston Dave finally reached the end of the Freedom Trail at the Bunker Hill monument
The older girls climbed all 294 steps for a hazy view of Boston
and after a schlep back to Faneuil Hall, they received their Boston junior ranger badges
Erin is still quite the helper outside, even when the job is hard labor like spreading sand into walkway pavers
Over the course of the year we have finished the first 7 King's Quest computer adventure games made in the 1980s. Since they were such a hit, we even played Mystery House, the very first graphics adventure game written in 1980 for the Apple IIe. Even with its rudimentary look, the girls liked it, as evidenced by the re-enactment below.
Oh no! It's Tom the Plumber, killed by a whack to the head.
The girls finished another successful session of piano lessons and this time Erin played her first recital
Erin's writing is coming along
The Southwick Zoo had lots of standard zoo animals, but the highlight (at least for Caroline and Erin) was the super-tame, dwarf deer enclosure
Erin's new buddy
More posing on the zoo statues
Selfie on the merry-go-round
Crazy hair day at Bowman Elementary
We took our summer picnic at the park next to the Museum of Science
where we could watch the railroad drawbridge and the Duck Boats enter and exit the water
Looking for the jewels from Mystery House
Choreography in the basement
More choreography
Caroline and the goats
Tessie on the phone
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