When we haven't been packing...

Here are some shots from the past few weeks. We have been busy packing and getting things ready to move, but we do try to get to some special activities for Aiden when we can fit them in. Our house is under contract (phew!) and the closing is supposed to be late June, so we have a lot of work to do! No luck on a permanent house for us in NH yet, but we're still looking...





We hiked up Mt. Philo on Mother's Day- the state park is not open yet so you can hike up the empty roadway instead of the trail (easier for toddlers). Aiden hiked a lot of the way up himself.

Timber & Grandma on top of Mt. Philo

Then we went to a "Big Trucks" day in Hinesburg, where businesses park their big trucks in the school parking lot so kids can climb up in them and see them up close. Aiden is obsessed with trucks, but it turns out he is also afraid of them when they are 500x his size. He had a death grip on me everytime we got near a big truck, and refused to sit in the drivers seat of any of them. As soon as we would walk 15' away, he would point and say "Truck!" and want to go back. I don't get it.

The next weekend was International Migratory Bird Day (now how could we pass that up?). So we went and watched scientists from the Audubon Society trap and band songbirds. I don't think Aiden enjoyed it as much as we did, but he was sort of interested.... Until he got bit by an Indigo Bunting.

Female Rose-Breasted Grosbeak

Male Ruby-Throated Hummingbird (they didn't have a band that tiny so we had to let it go unbanded)

On the Green Mtn Audubon Society porch

Singing Chestnut Sided Warbler

Looking at a Gray Catbird

We also went to Shelburne Farms a few days ago, to let Aiden run around and pet the animals. He was less interested in the animals than in the kid-size-tractors (not afraid of trucks THIS size!) and the farm truck toys.