The aquarium had a cool digital exhibit that allowed you to color a fish and name it, and then watch it get introduced into the wild! The kids introduced a kaleidoscope of new species:)

Holmes and Sam (also 4-years old) have been thick as thieves from the moment we arrived. Our friends, Ben and Tyler, live across the street from Weir Farm National Historic Park where American Impressionist artists found their roots. It is one of two National Historic Parks devoted to visual art, and it’s where we learned all about how to avoid ticks (stay on the path!).

We searched for all the painted bears in the park to earn our Junior Park Rangers badges!

Meryl searched out the names of various flower species using a new feature on iPhones that provides flower names a part of the backend image information of a picture. It’s pretty cool!

Rounding up the rear and making shade in the sun:)

Fun times with Sasha! Our friends live close and it was fun to meet up locally! Turns out, the same firefighter who captivated cousin David in his youth is still firefighting and is still captivating to our youth!

I take a lot of pictures, I can’t help it.

Cross-country travel, leftover pizza in a bag, way too many chips for all of us, and another car ride to our friends’ place in Connecticut…the adventure is on!

Meryl made a bird feeder out of a zillion popsicle sticks and a lot of glue…and it’s working! Hello, birds!

We have a Second Grader! (With significantly fewer teeth.)