June Miscellany

Happy July 1st!  We have wrapped up June already (yikes!), and I thought I would just write a quick post of little things we did and just cute pictures of the boys.  Enjoy!

A quick photo of Alex on his actual 1st birthday opening cards and presents.  He is showing off his new skill of pointing here...

Hooray!  More tissue paper!

 Nathan continues to ride his balance bike almost daily.  This day we were on our way to a friend's house, and it was threatening rain, so Nathan threw on his rain boots and rain jacket, and off we went!  He loves to follow the "arrows", which trace the gas line in the street, left over from a construction project last year.

Alex talking and then his favorite word at the end "uh-oh!"

Nathan has been a great help setting the table lately.  I asked him to get some spoons and he discovered the serving spoons.  He insists on using the "big spoons" now!

Michael had mentioned some good parks in Newburyport, near a jobsite.  We decided to do a tour of them one Saturday morning.  The first one was a huge wooden playground, with all sorts of slides, tunnel, stairs.  Heaven for the boys!

Nathan and Alex chased each other through this tunnel over and over.

The second park was right on the ocean, in a nice wooded setting.  It has some large concrete play structures, shaped like a dinosaur skeleton, giant tree stump and a log.  And a zip line!

Hi Mom!

The dino was a challenging climb, but Nathan figured it out (you can see Alex way back by the tail).

 Nathan on the zip line!

After naptime, Nathan wanted to show Michael the "cows" (Richardson's Farm in Middleton, awesome ice cream).

They also have mini-golf, and Nathan insisted he wanted to try it for the first time.  The general rules eluded him, but he had a great time!

Alex did great fetching the balls for us at the end of each hole :)