Well, last week was the illustrious “stay-cation” and it was fantastic. We lucked out with amazing weather and really made the most of our time off. The kids enjoyed having Daddy home a lot and so did Mommy! We did a bunch of stuff, like going to the zoo, one morning Mark and I left the kids at home and rented stand up paddle boards and cruised around the ritzy waterfront and ogled the rich people’s houses, had some nice dinners out on the deck and caught up with friends and drank more beer and rose wine than should be allowed! Here are some pics of general summertime fun starting back in July, more of Sophie’s Ballet Class, additional miscellany (I should have broken up this blog into a few posts perhaps, but it’s summertime and I’m being lazy) and rounding up with this past week at the zoo, et all.
We also spent a fair amount of time out on the boat this week, including two overnight trips, which was a real “experience.” Especially given that Max was so excited to get to share the cubby-hole bed with his big sister he could hardly sleep! He babbled and giggled and came up outside on the boat deck where Mark and I were sitting enjoying the evening to tell us “Good night, I love you, I’m tired!” every 5 minutes or so for about an HOUR. He did eventually get to sleep for a bit but then woke up again at 2AM and wanted breakfast! I had to eventually go in there with them to be the barrier between Max “smell my feet” Linton and Sophie, who was actually trying to sleep (albeit unsuccessfully.) Needless to say, the next morning we were all rather tired and grumpy. And the worst part was – we were all set to make ourselves some coffee on the stove but failed to bring along a fire-clicker to start the damn thing. Good thing Markie was able to cook eggs in a frying pan on the BBQ, so we didn’t go hungry. Either we were not scarred all that badly or more likely, we just have short memories, because we did another over-nighter again later in the week, (this time with the clicker in hand!) and things went much better, but Max and Sophie still had a good time being bad (not sleeping) and Mark and I both had crick-y backs after sleeping on the table-cum-bed. Oh well, I guess that’s what you call a “first world” problem, and we’ll take it. And now it’s back to work for Mark, and off to Milan tomorrow for a very short work trip and then, hey- it’s the weekend again (and a long one too for Veteran’s Day) and with that comes…. you guessed it- more BOATING! We’ll keep on until the weather stops cooperating. Here are some pictures from the first trip, as you can see both kids (Sophie in particular) are really getting to love the water. Sophie easily spends 3/4 of her entire day swimming around and then the other 1/4 of the time she’s eating and drinking (as are we. a-hem.) We aren’t sure which costs more… fueling the boat or fueling the kids (and parents) while on the boat! Enjoy!!
Those Lintons 