Last of the Cape Cod Photos

Friends C.P., Jimmy, Jim, and Pete joined us at the end of our Cape Cod stay.  We did things with them.  The end of the Cape Cod photos.

Goofing around in Wellfleet and revisiting Great Island Beach (should look familiar) with C.P. and Jimmy and relaxing afterward on the deck with all: http://gallery.me.com/wedaman1#100668

Cape Cod National Seashore Visitor’s Center, First Encounter Beach, and splashing in the vigorous Atlantic surf on White Crest beach: http://gallery.me.com/wedaman1#100678

Something Interesting Over There.

Family poses on Cape Cod

Various family poses on Marconi beach, Cape Cod. And in the rental house.  Isaac and Leah took a few of these pictures.

http://gallery.me.com/wedaman1#100622

Tall people in front block out other people in the 2nd row.

Quotes of the Day

• Leah: It’s daytime so Little Beary needs to wake up.  Little Beary is named Cherry.
• Isaac: Can I sleep on this Moumi?  Type in “little.”
• Leah: Get out of here, Isaac!
• Issac: But I’m doing my chomp!
• Leah: Isaac do you want some candy?  I have two kinds: chocolate or vanilla or chocolate or strawberry.
• Isaac: What are paws?
• Leah: No!  Isaac hit me with that ball right on the neck.
• Isaac: It was an accident.
• Leah: If you don’t have any you can’t go to the party.
• Isaac: I don’t want to go to the party.
• Leah: Everybody needs to go to the party.
• Isaac: I’m staying home with Papa.
• Leah: The sign says no balls at parties.  You can only dance at parties.
• Isaac: Is it gonna be a baby bear dance?
• Leah: Isaac, you need to be nice to me.
• Isaac: Oakes has gone to Gloucester.  A long time along I went inside Oakes’ house.  And I played with him and I played with his cars.  And I cleaned up.  And I came home.
• Leah:  I’m literally climbing the walls.
• Isaac: I heard my sister cough.
• Leah: There was a princess who got married and then she goed crazy (describing Lucia di Lammermoor).
• Isaac: I have a new drink and it’s orange juice and honey.
• Leah: Isaac, you’re breaking my car!  Are you fixing it?
• Isaac: I’m just checking it.
• Leah: But he’s fixing it and it’s already fixed.
• Isaac: I’m tired because I yawned.

Easter candy: not for the faint of heart.

Massachusetts Cousins Invade Cambridge

We received a wonderful visit, yesterday and today (Pi Day & Ides of March, FYI), from our Holyoke, MA, kin: Sarah, Lesley, Kien, and Tien.  Pictures are ready now; videos to follow as time allows (some filmed by Kien, Tien, and Leah).

Pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/35697021@N06/sets/72157615253193899/show/

Itinerary:

1. House-based amusements
2. Trip by bus and subway to Alewife T Station / Parking Garage
3. Walk on Minuteman Bicycle Path
4. Early dinner at Jasper White’s Summer Shack
5. Bad movie: Lemora: A Child’s Tale of the Supernatural
6. Sleep
7. Tricycle play in park
8. Muffins, etc., from Darwin’s Ltd., Harvard Square
9. Creation of Facebook and Twitter accounts for Sarah Frances
10. Brunch at Full Moon Child-Friendly Restaurant
11. Tricycle play in park
12. Cousins leave, sigh of sadness.

Aunties Sarah and Lesley in the Parlor

Pi Day Pictures

Leah and Isaac were so excited about the impending visit of cousins Kien and Tien (here now) that we had to run around outside in our pajamas.  A photo montage of our trip:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/35697021@N06/sets/72157615255570574/show/

Included:

1. Local Hand-cut Donut Shop
2. A family playground we stumbled upon.  Where we ran, jumped, and climbed.
3. The Porter Square Watch repair store (having Dad’s watch “overhauled”)
4. Playing on a real rock at Porter Square, Cambridge
5. Pretending we’re airplanes in Larch Road Park.
6. Playing in newly snow-free sand, still in Larch Road Park.  

 

 

Leah and Isaac in Watch Store

Quotes of the Day: Fire and Food

• Isaac: Leah W. is writing down all the food we’re eating for dinner.
• Isaac: Pokes are bad. Long pokers are bad.
• Leah: Where can our house be, if the rain falls on us?
• Leah: The bad lady can’t find us; we’re going to sneak inside our house and have a nice fire.
• Isaac: I have a fire tent.
• Isaac: Leah said some wrong things about Spiderman.
• Leah: We can’t put the toys in because the fire is too heavy to lift up the blanket.
• Isaac: How do you spell trailer? That’s a long word.
• Leah: Maybe the big folks have to let the teachers at dance class learn me how to dance.
• Isaac: I want to go to boy dance class.
• Isaac: Papa, I have to crash you. I can crash kids and I can crash cars and I can crash buildings . . .
• Isaac: I went outside to plant tomato seeds.
• Leah: Nobody wants to see my naked legs.

Sarah Frances Retrospective

We found some old photos of Sarah Frances and thought we’d put them together in an album we call the “Sarah Frances Retrospective.”  For your amusement!  Those are Daisy Red Ryder BB Guns.

http://gallery.me.com/wedaman1#100599

A sample:

A natural Drum Major!

Ten New Videos some Old

Cleaning out the iMovie storage bin.  For your amusement, from sometime in the year 2008 or 2009, we think, we bring you:

1. Leah in a Box March 2008
   
2. On the Couch March 2008
   
3. Talking about Ikea, Beds, and Valentine’s Day January 2009
4. Painted Feet January 2009
5. Harmonica March? 2008
6. Pickle Dance January 2009
7. Black-Eyed Susans Summer 2008
8. Birthday Dance August 2008
9. G-fish Passover 2008
10. Airport March 2008

Many also on YouTube.  Enough to keep you busy on a Sunday afternoon now that football is in hibernation.

Cars on the Road

Leah and the Tinkertoys

Photos of Leah dancing and Leah and Isaac playing with Tinkertoys.

http://gallery.me.com/wedaman1#100462&bgcolor=black&view=grid

Dancing Leah