Father's Day Weekend

Father's Day.  I have such a hard time thinking what to do to celebrate this day!  To honor everyone, Mark, my dad and Marks dad, in one day is tough!  This year, at least, my father in law was up in Maine, giving us only two people to celebrate. As adult men, I feel like when they want or need something, they buy it, right?  So what is left to give them as gifts?  The kids and I (haha) decided to give Mark the option of two things: a fun gift, an outdoor remote control helicopter (Think Bruce Jenner) or a more reasonable gift, a new grill. He loved both ideas and has yet to decide which to choose.  For my dad, all of the kids decided to bring him into Boston for a sunset cruise to see the Tall Ships come in around the Fourth of July.  He loved the idea.  But for the day, the whole family went down to the Cape (big surprise!) and spend the day together, minus PJ and Kevin.

Cool kids, I know

And we had a ton of fun!!  For the first half of the day, Tina and Ryan were down and after the boys got over the initial hyperness that always happens when they see each other, we decided to all go to the dock and let them try and catch some fish. Now, lets talk dock stuff. We have two big community docks in the association.  I freak when we are on the docks with the kids.  I strap that life jacket on Cam before he even steps on and even then, I still freak out! I don't want him to be afraid because I am nervous, so I try to just make sure someone is close to him AT ALL TIMES!  Last year with Avery, I'd wear her in the Ergo and all would be good.  This year, I was super nervous about her jumping in, so I had Mark put her in a stroller and we rolled her onto the dock. I locked all the wheels and hung on. When I saw a cute photo op, I stepped back like 15 feet, looked through my viewfinder for about 10 shots, put the camera down, and she was about 1 second away from being completely out of the stroller!!  She had wiggled herself under the tray, knees on the dock and just about ready to pull her head out and be free.  So yeah, I screamed, with no voice mind you, for anyone near her to grab her! Which they did and I ran over, freaking out that she could have run over to the edge and jumped into the water and no one would have even noticed.  Oh and did I mention Mark put her in the stroller? Yeah honey, the straps are there for a reason.  A big, HUGE safety reason! Ugh, the docks....

Tina and Ryan

My Daddy, the longest love of my life :)

Twinkle toe's

But anyway, they fished.  They little boys had fun and Cameron caught the only fish of the day, a flounder, his first salt water fish ever!

Proud! Oh and he's shooting spider web's out of his hand at me in this picture, too.

After fishing, we went back to the house to hang out.  We attempted a grandchildren group shot and this is what I ended up with:

Aubrey (9mos), Cameron (3), Ryan (3), and Avery (16 mos)

It was a perfect afternoon for flying kites, so we did!  We used Cameron's beloved $2 alien kite.  He loved launching it up in the sky and then going on the jetty with Papa after we were done.

Sort of looks like he see's God or something, but no, just a kite!

We all left early and stopped for dinner at Captain Al's Tiki Bar.  There was a man playing the piano, which Cam loved! He kept walking from our table to him to see if he was really playing.  I tried to get him to put money in his basket, but for some reason he was afraid!

So, happy Father's Day Mark!  We had a great day playing with you at the beach and hope you had fun with us too!!

Yikes!

I haven't posted in forever, but I have photos from the weekend!  Just no energy tonight!  Come back and visit tomorrow night!  You'll see some Cape Cod cuteness of my littles! 

In the mean time, nuh night!

Swimming in the summer!!

Finally, really FINALLY, we went to the Cape and actually walked down to the beach.  First time this summer, I know, pathetic right? But, we drove down Sunday morning on a mission: the kids needed water shoes!  Our beach is pretty rocky and I didn't like the idea of the possible shell cutting their feet.  They have their Crocs, but I didn't think they were going to stay on while they were swimming.  I think it took us about an hour to go into 6 stores looking for some.  And we ended up with nothing!  If a store had them, they were way to big for my kids tootsies.  Fail.  But in the process we ended up with a goggles and snorkel set, a boogie board, and these God-awful full body bathing suits with floaty stuff sewn into them.  Mark picked the suits out :) When we got down, we had lunch, flagged down the ice cream truck, and headed down to the beach, Crocs and all.  

We set up shop on the Pocasset river side of the beach, which is a bit safer for the wee one.  (I found out later that this is a big fat LIE after a video was on the news of a damn huge shark was spotted in the river a few days later.  They said it was 14 feet, but a basking shark, which is supposedly harmless, but come on! It's still a shark!)  Anyway, this was Avery's first trip to the beach as a toddler and she had fun.  Well, the second I put her down to play on the shore, she grabbed a fistful of mud and put it straight into her mouth.  So, after that, she had fun.   

Chasing the seagull!

Piggies!

These Puddle Jumpers are the best!  Try them out!

Mimi, Ave, and Papa

After swimming, we took a walk on the bay side, caught some crabs and played around.

 
Hiking over to the other side

  

I'm in a photo!

     

She was so proud to be up on the rocks!

 Hunting for crabs

Oh and did I mention Cam is like, the pro bike rider now?  This year he can reach the peddles no problem and knows how to do the breaks and what not.  Our road is really quiet so I only get a little neurotic when cars come.  He loves riding his bike though, mom screaming "car, car... CAR!" or not.  

Vrooom!

So that was that!  A major success for bringing the kids to the beach, both as walkers.  No running off in opposite directions, no dropping the beloved sippies into the sticky sand and no sunburns!!  Hey, it went so well, we just may go back ;)

And we were spent!!

Founders Day

Ok, just to say, I am sooo far behind! Not on life, (that is going way to fast!) but on this blog!  I'm like 3 weeks behind!  I do this blog as a sort of journal for myself and my family for future reference of what went on daily/weekly/ and sometimes monthly (crap!). Recently, I've decided that it's not necessary to go on the computer during the day.  I have my iPhone to do my quick little check-ins, but to sit around with my face staring at my Mac BookPro with my little ones tugging at my legs or repeating "mommy I want to show you somethinggggggg" way to often, just wasn't fair.  So, the computer doesn't get opened anymore until the last one is up and tucked into bed.  And of course, that one is Cam, who usually goes down around 9-ish every night, giving me hardly any time to get my stuff done before I'm conking out and calling it quits myself.  So that's why I've been MIA for awhile now!  But, it's for a good reason!

But anyway, lets start getting caught up!  A few weeks back, it really started to feel like summer here.  We went to our first summer time parade of the year, sort of a practice Fourth of July parade!  It was to celebrate Founders Day in Foxboro and was followed by a fair and fireworks.  Of course, my kids were no where near staying up for the fireworks, but they did end the day with a trip to the playground and a little tiny family cookout.  All the pics were taken with our phones (And may I just say, I hate the camera on my iPhone?  I thought it would be good, but its not.  Just saying'..)

I think Cam was a little afraid of the fire truck sounds!

Pretty horses 

Goofy Cam and Ashlyn, BFF's! Always holding hands!

 The kids with Googa

First time trying cotton candy!  Really, Mark just wanted it!

 Happy much?

 Seriously, you'd think it was Disney or something!

 Being a fire fighter with Papa

 Big Girl...

 and an even Bigger Boy!!

 Avery's first taste of corn on the cobb!  She was in love!!

And we already knew he loved it!