Jen and Jordi's neighbors Christina and Chanh joined us, along with their two boys Ethan and Zack, for a cookout. Jen and Jordi brought along their bounce house which was in the back of their car from a party on Saturday. Josie, Zack, and Ethan bounced in the house and played in the yard. Lots of energy!
Dessert was cherry pie with whipped cream or with ice cream or ice cream without pie. Here is the pie from earlier in the day.
Josie took a few tries to get herself comfortable with the pool. She enjoys the water enough and is not overly sensitive to getting her face wet. But sometimes she wants to run (Hey! Walk!) around the pool's edge and just toss the toys in. But we did get her in and she enjoys being motored around the pool. Here I am bending the "no photos of Jen in her bathing suit" rule. Most of her image goes unseen underwater, so that's my loophole.
Here is an after-wedding photo I got, taking advantage of the pro wedding photographers doing their thing. Left to right is Jeff, Chad's dad, Angie, Chad, and Sue, Jeff's wife/my cousin.
Congratulations to Chad and Angie!
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We packed quite a lot into the Saturday to Saturday week. We saw the Cotuit Kettleers win a game against one of their Cape League rivals. One name there got our attention: Mike Yastrzemski, Yaz' grandson, is playing for Cotuit. We didn't get a real good look at the actual play of the game as we were chasing Josie around. After the game, a bunch of kids swarmed the field, Josie ran the bases, touching them all, three times.
The prior entry from Woods Hole was a mid-week excursion to the aquarium there.
]]>It was a hot day here. We made the pie and then went to "the Res" for a dip. We returned to a well chilled pie. Hot day and chilled pie go together deliciously. Now if papa would just hurry up and take the picture, we can cut and serve this thing!
The exhibit is pretty darn good, although I wondered how far they stretched the theme. If you have hundreds of paintings and sculptures from two artists, can't you always find some that look suspiciously alike? Of course, Picasso's quote about copying and stealing makes such doubts hard to maintain. If you like Picasso or Degas or both, be sure to pay a visit.
On Sunday we headed back after a visit first to Mass MOCA. Lots of good stuff to see there too. We especially like the Material World: Sculpture to Environment and Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective.
]]>My daughter, and her daughter's father, and his daughter came by for our first "get into the pool" on Father's Day. Lots of fun!
]]>Josie helped run the apples through the apple machine, lay out the apples on the defrosted puff pastry, and sprinkle on the brown sugar on top. All that effort and the part she enjoyed most was the ice cream. Maybe we will have to get out the ice cream maker next time to make that into a chore too?
You can see I am wearing my Red Sox jersey. This always elicits comments at work, "Are you going to the game tonight?" "No", I say. But Jen's neighbors offered a pair of last minute tickets that Jen & Jordi couldn't take advantage of, and so they fell to Karen and me.
The Royals hammered out 20 hits and made the Sox pitching look bad. Still we had a good time. We struck up a conversation with a young couple down for the weekend from Vermont. Nicholas and Sabrina coaxed us in to going out for a drink after the game. We got to see the Celtics finish off the Magic at the bar.
Maybe Jen & Jordi would have hit us up for some baby sitting time for the Red Sox game if they didn't already have us lined up for Saturday. They went to see the new Shrek movie and we had Josie help us put in some impatiens in our front yard. She arrived just after a quick thunderstorm moved through, and the sun was out again. Josie's favorite was using the duck-shaped watering can. Water, water everywhere! Then inside for a bath (more water), and dinner.
Sunday and Monday saw some miscellaneous chores, and I finished a book I've been reading, Three Cups of Tea. Karen will pick up this book for her upcoming book club.
]]>Josie was a bit overwhelmed early in the festivities as more and more people kept arriving. And they were swarming over all of her toys out in the back yard. What's up with that? After spending a little quiet time inside looking out through the window, she got back to the party. Chowing down on some of her mom's mac and cheese helped too.
The bounce castle was a big hit as you can see. Cake and ice cream and bouncing. Amazingly, hardly any injuries and no one hurled. The party was a big success.
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Apologies for original "off by 90 degrees" image.
]]>From there, we went to the Franklin Park Zoo. Jen, Josie, and Jordi are all big zoo fans. It was a nice sunny day, but just a bit on the cool side. This kept some of the animals (giraffes) in their barns, but it does keep the big cats a little more active (not the lion).
We all enjoyed the day, although Jen might have appreciated a Mothers Day nap from Josie, who, now she has turned two, seems to have outgrown the habit.
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