Family Day on the Common

Someone's awfully happy for 2 a.m.

Papa Bear and Baby Bear

Avonlea Jane was very excited about her homemade Goldilocks costume. She wasn't the only one. My pride knew no bounds after making a garment that actually zipped and covered everything it was supposed to cover. There may have been some gratuitous victory dancing and comparing myself to Zeus birthing Athena from his brain. David was a good sport and very generous with high fives. He barely even rolled his eyes whenever I would declare, "I have made dress!" ala Tom Hanks making fire in Castaway. Until this point, I had been convinced that there was a domestic gene passed through my mother's family that somehow missed me.; now I know it was just dormant.

The apron (which she also wore last year as Dorothy) and the bloomers were made by my grandmother for a life-size Raggedy Ann doll I've had since childhood.

Enjoying Family Day on the Common

Waiting in line for her first real carnival ride

Kids' Day on the Common

It is amazing how many people Will can simultaneously look like. There are times (like above), when we think he looks a lot like his Great-Grandpa Bissell.

Playing together (Here, Will looks like David as a baby.)

In mid-October, we had a great time going to Kids' Day on the Common.

Our little lady bug tried unsuccessfully to sit for a photo with Popeye (Baby Jack).

Megan, Geoff, and Jack as Wimpy, Brutus, and Popeye

David dressed up as Uncle Dillon's future self in honor of Dillon's 20th birthday.

Loving her first pony ride

Sweet potato face

Provincetown and Hyannisport

We drove all the way to the end of the Cape to visit Provincetown and see more of the National Seashore. This is the look-out from the visitors' center.

Looking at the Pilgrims Monument in the distance

Excited to spend another day at the beach

Mommy dug a hole for Will.

An old Life Saving Station, what was in place to aid in the case of ship wrecks prior to the Coast Guard.

Provincetown was the site of the Pilgrims' first landing. We joke that they didn't see the rock marked 1620, so they kept on going.

The view from the top of the monument

Commercial Street in P-Town

The JFK Museum in Hyannisport

One of these things does not belong.

Looking at a horseshoe crab

The harbor outside of our rooms