Holy crap my parents are here!!

Last night at like, a billion o'clock, my parents flight from Oregon touched down. We didn't have much time to ketchup because it was definitely snooze o'clock, and it was just me picking them up anyway. So I just dropped them where they are staying after many hugs and stuff. All they really wanted was to see the kids anyway, we know how it is. That had to wait until today.

So we went out to the Cove again and BB'd some Q with my friend Paolo, his baby daughter Camila, and his in-laws who only speak spanish. It was super fun! Most importantly though, there was some inter-generational snuggles and giggles.

Three generations of dudes!!


Sassy girl, meet sassy Gogo!


Hooraaaayys!!

It was so great to get everyone together and to see them and now we're off to a crazy family reunion / 90th birthday extravaganza in Maine. More on that later.

In the meantime, here's some video of True dishing out some sparkle eyed smiles.

Damn. It's hot.

Today we went to the Decordova Museum in Lincoln for some good old fashioned culture. I made a movie about it.



In other news, a couple weekends ago we went to this rad place called the Garden in the Woods. It's in Framingham and it's really beautiful! It's essentially a Botanical Garden of all native plants. Wicked fun for Cole to run around there, and a great place to receive mosquito bites.

There were ponds.



Cole found a PINECONE!!!



There were tons of pretty little flowers.



It doesn't look like it, but this is Cole running quite quickly down a bit of a hill on a path made of gravel. It doesn't take long for him to take a spill.


What's funny is that he then pretends he's inspecting something on the ground. Like we didn't just see him fall flat on his face.


There were beautiful babbling brooks




And wonderful bridges that we all loved tromping over and watching the water flow beneath us.



Plus some gnarly awesome roots. Like literally gnarly as well as the fun rad dope definition of gnarly.



Then last weekend we went to the Cove in Auburndale again!



Except this time it was super rad because we hung out there with some friends. All of us dads are dorky camera wielding nerds.



This is Paolo and Fernanda's daughter Camila:


She is adorable. She and True chilled out pretty happily. They are going to be best friends when they grow up. Or else.

Paolo's mother in law made some bad ass Salsa from scratch.





It was delicious.

TBO's son Ryan and Cole played on the rocks.


And they played on the slides because ... because slides are fun.



And they played with balls and stuff



And it was generally just fun as hell.

Double the Fun

Once upon a time, back in 2009, we happily hosted aunts and uncles imported from New York to celebrate the homecoming of our #1 son, Cole. Aunt Gale & uncle Steve, and aunt Liz & uncle Phil woke up early, piled in the car and hightailed it on up to Beantown to meet their new great nephew. Well, they've done it again. That fabulous foursome came to our happy home and touched our hearts with their sweetness and love. We literally wept with joy at their arrival, and not just because they brought enough kosher deli to eat for days. It means so much to us that they made the trip to meet our #1 girl, little Miss True.

Oh, did you want to share the magic moments? Well you're in luck, we've got a few special pics of the day

The Poopies


The Bayers


Uncle Steve


Uncle Phil


Lirpy luv


Gale gazing


Uncles


Family Portrait


So yeah, there is some serious happy happy joy joy around here these days. It makes us look like this:


We have so much to be thankful for, we're celebrating Thanksgiving in July. Family, fun, beach, sun, and a deep fried turkey. Cheers!

Helloooo Long Beach! The sequel™

This past weekend we took the kids (that's our new favorite thing; saying "the kids") to hang out with family down in Long Beach. It was a great trip!





We already knew Cole loves the beach. But now we have video proof.



Weeee!



It was great to see everyone. There were so many hugs and cuddles that it was crazy. Crazy good, of course.





We also ate a lot of delicious snacks. You know. Marvel, awesome grilled stuff, flagels, and whatever Cole could find on the floor.



Cole loves to help. He is a giving soul. He was instrumental in the great shovel organizing project.



The results of his work are pretty awesome!







Oh, and True totally helped too.





Speaking of True, she's totally turning into a person. Check it out, here's some footage of her blurbling and stuff. Dunno if she'll make the debate team, but this is way more fun than her sleeping all the time!!



We'll leave you with that. Hugs to all.

Baby's First Hike

Holy garbanzo beans, the weather today was absolutely gorgeous. We had to do something! So we went to an Audubon wildlife sanctuary in Natick to walk around and see some naturey stuff. The place has a really nice boardwalk which we enjoyed immensely.







The wood from which the boardwalk was constructed seemed to be ancient and by itself was quite beautiful.





There was no railing on some of the sides and it was a bit nerve wracking (racking?) watching Cole just walk right up to the edge. He behaved himself though.



The woods shared all sorts of beautiful secrets with us.

























True found it fascinating.



We saw some wildlife, including a musk rat and some little turtles sunning themselves. It was a little rainy, so they were a little frustrated, as you can see.





Cole started off with a bang, running off ahead of us and getting his little hands all over everything. It was great!







He played more hide and seek with us, and this time chose some better hiding places than the other day.









But then he got tired and annoyed.





Eventually we made our way back to the car and drove home so Cole could enjoy the Graham Crackers he was promised.