Busy October

 As a special treat, the older girls saw the Ringling Bros. circus


and they attended their first BPO concert to hear The Planets at Symphony Hall. As always the cellos sounded outstanding.


Erin completed another session of U7 in-town soccer

It's a sad time of year when we swap out the sun hats for the winter gear


Those glasses are empty

Poor old Max can't climb on any bed except Tessie's and when he does he takes up half the space


 Max had to make a return trip to the hospital for another radioactive iodine treatment. After a scare with his kidney function, he seems to be OK now and has thyroid levels back to normal.

We love Caroline's 3rd grade teacher who in addition to teaching all the usual stuff, is working on cognitive behavioral techniques. To overcome frustration, we can now tell Caroline to "use more grit" - love it! 


And lately Caroline has been a great big sister to Erin - even writing up math and reading worksheets


This year the garden produced 5 jack-o-lantern worthy pumpkins

Both of the older girls costumes required boots


 but the fuzzy blue monster already had clawed feet

A 2-hour marathon on the streets resulted in a record loot haul

The next day we did our first bona fide hike at Mount Wachusett

and the girls absolutely flew up and down the trail with Dad scrambling to catch up

Not sure what this means, but the sleepy apples produced tasty cider

 Dave's 41st birthday

On the way to the airport to pick up Heather, we stopped at Revere Beach. In the off-season with the riff-raff gone, the beach was surprisingly beautiful

Another off-season adventure was to Cape Cod for a couple of nights in Hyannis. The first night Tessie stayed up past 10 pm partying with Cheez-Its.

 Since we were all in one room, the next night the girls had little space for snacking and reading

We did visit the Cape Cod National Seashore and pick up a cool patch

Tessie taught us a couple new Halloween songs

No, the girls did not get sick after this

Tessie's usual bedtime craziness