Grandpa Dada, Crazy Uncle Dan and Aunt Paulette drove up to NH last week for a short visit. Their timing was perfect since I was about to leave Andy alone with both kids and the puppy for five days straight during Monadnock Trails Week (one of my biggest work events of the year). As we're both feeling a little bit overwhelmed with the addition of the pup... sort of like we need eyes in the back of our heads, and extra set of hands, and the ability to instantly clone ourselves on demand... it was great to have the help. They arrived the day before my work event started, so I did get to spend a bit of time with everyone. On Thursday evening we ascended Mount Sunapee by chairlift for a summit BBQ... the weather was perfect for gazing at the expansive views while sipping a beer on the top deck of the summit lodge. Aiden was inspired to take about 1000 photos of the mountain views.
Mmmm... hamburger
The next day we went raspberry picking in a BIG way... 12 quarts worth. It was force-feeding of raspberries at every meal after that... on bagels, on cereal, on ice cream. In the end we ended up freezing the last 4 quarts for smoothies before they went bad. On Saturday the crew (minus myself) went to Sunapee State Beach where Haley demonstrated her crazy baby butterfly stroke. She gets so insanely excited when she gets in the water and thrusts her butt up and down like a little dolphin, looping her arms and kicking both legs together like she's doing the butterfly. She's so strong I swear if we let her go she might actually swim away. She clearly belongs in the water though.
Sunapee State Beach
water bug
And Munson... poor Munson. He was not thrilled to have a frenetic little shadow named Kimball attached to him all weekend! They actually got along fine as long as Kimball remained very calm, but one small growl from Munson and Kimball would mistake it for wanting to play... which was NOT Munson's idea of fun. He was so quiet trying to hide from Kimball all weekend that we barely knew he was there... which is kind of a rare Munson experience!
Hideout!
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It was a blast. As for Munson, he deserves a little taste of his own medicine. Usually all the children feel like hiding from him like that so now he has someone to hide from. He shouldnt be such a jerk!!
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