American Museum of Natural History

Went to the city and the American Museum of Natural History to see some really cool stuff. I helped with the map to navigate us around the place and to the dinosaur bones. We watched Cousteau's "Secret Ocean" which had the most amazing deep sea scenes and over in the Hayden Planetarium was saw "Dark Universe"narrated by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. The known universe is big and we are very very very tiny.

Great Escape with Cousin Sophia!

I had a great time on the rides and playing with my cousin Sophia today at the Great Escape!

Baseball + Star Wars = Awesome!

Tonight was Star Wars night at the Tri-City Valley Cats game (New York Penn League Class A affiliate of the Houston Astros). I got to see a bunch of characters and play in the kids zone, and I got a foul ball!

Yikes!

Good thing I wasn't picking tomatoes today. I was in the sun room, reading with  with mom, when a tree fell across the fence and into our yard. It clipped the gutter on the back of the house and crushed the edge of the garden. It made a lot of noise and was pretty scary.

Tomato harvest

I picked a bowlful of tomatoes from our plants this evening (and proceeded to eat most of them).

Grasshopper

Went to G'ma & G'pa Mercier's this weekend. Did some swimming at the Twin Lakes pool, played a little Uno, had ice cream from Mickey's Igloo, and checked out this little grasshopper for a while. I guess he was checking me out, too.

Au revoir mon ami.

Jusqu'à ce que nous rencontrons à nouveau.

Today was a bittersweet day. My good friend, Gabrielle, and her family are moving to Cincinnati. Her parents have a wonderful job opportunities and we wish them the very best, but I sure will miss my friend. I met Gabby seven years ago when I started daycare, and even though we went to different schools, still saw her all the time in the afterschool program, summer camp, birthday parties and whenever else we could. We're going to be pen-pals and I hope we get a chance to visit her family once they get settled into their new home.

 

Playground and Ice Cream

I played tag at the playground with Dad after dinner tonight, then got home just as the ice cream truck was driving down the street! Yay, summer!

Summer vacation to Cape Cod

We rented a house in Orleans with Grandma and Grandpa for a week and enjoyed new things and old favorites. The house was nice, close to a lot of stuff and had some fun games, including Dog-opoly! Yup. Monopoly (my favorite) but with a dog theme. Dad and I played a game over two days and I won. We visited the Chatham Pier for the first time, as well as the National Seashore, and watched my fist Cape Cod Summer League baseball game - the Orleans Firebirds vs. Harwich Mariners. The Firebirds won, I grabbed a foul ball, got a player autograph in my program, and won a boogie board in the 50/50 raffle! We brought G'ma & G'pa to the Musuem of Natural History in Brewster (which they really liked), visited the Brewster Store, drove into Chatham, played mini golf at Arnold's after dinner one night, and showed them the best spots on Skaket Beach for hunting critters. We flew kites, build sand fortresses, dug holes, collected hermit crabs and I tested my new boogie board on the waves at Coast Guard Beach. I rode those waves pretty good. We spent a lot of time on the beach. More than any other trip, I think, which is fine by me. I'd could play on the beach from sunrise to sunset.

Sunset. Skaket Beach, Orleans.

Chatham Pier

The garden shed

Kite flying at Skaket Beach

Crafts at the museum

Osprey wing span

Beach bums

Sunset at Skaket

At the National Seashore

Coast Guard Beach

Boogie board rides at Skaket

Souvenir ball

Grandma loves the beach

Mom loved the beach, too.

My drip castle!