On the Steps

We visited Grammy & Grampa's and got to eat all the blackberries that we could fit into our mouths! Then we sat on the steps and watched Percy kitty!

Sandbox

You can probably tell that Evvie likes her new shades an awful lot. She likes it when she and daddy both wear their glasses and say "hey there dude" to each other.

Grammy came to babysit this week and brought a new outside toy...a sandbox! Evelyn really loves digging and dumping and making a mess, so this is right up her alley!

The many moods of Evelyn Mae

Well, there's coy.. and then there's proud!

Pennsylvania Trip

We had a great trip last week to visit the elder Smiths for five days. Evelyn was a bit timid among the visiting throngs, but enjoyed her time with the family unit.

She had fun shucking (and wolfing down) corn...
Hanging out with Auntie Lara...

Swinging with Great Grandma Doris, Grandma Sue, and Mama...

Looking cute in the garden...

Getting Grampa Jim to sketch her new poodle...

Learning the coolest John Bonham licks...

Flying through the air...

Learning from the retired art teacher...

and folowing Biddy Kitty around for hours!

You'd never guess that the trip seemed short with all this fun!

Greetings

...But I'm Already a Princess

We found a little froggie in the basement this afternoon and brought him out into the wide world.

We had a great day, trying to keep it mellow before our big trip to Pennsylvania to see Grandma and Grandpa Smith.

2 DAYS TO GO!

Rays of Sunshine

A hazy day at the beach

It struck me that it doesn't necessarily have to be a beautiful day to enjoy the beach. Evelyn loves the sand so much that we loaded up and headed out for a quick morning trip to Popham beach. She mostly loves the warm puddles left behind by the receding tide, and will spend great amounts of time walking from one end to the other.

After taking a break from that, she loves to dig with her shovel and transfer sand into her bucket. When she's feeling funny, she'll also shovel sand onto my knee or foot, look at me, and laugh. We made a few "towers" with her bucket, which she thoroughly enjoyed, and then realized that Daddy makes a big deal of it whe you sit on them to crush them. This became a long game, wherein I built the towers and Evelyn destroyed them.

Kids have all the fun.

Goodbye Camp

After four relaxing weeks, it is time to head back home from camp. This is the scene that greeted me on the mornings that I headed to work in an air-conditioned office with no windows.

I think we New Englanders should automatically get June, July & August off as compensation for dealing with December, January and February. It's too difficult to miss one moment of summer's fleeting flirtation.

Remembering snuggles past...

July 2006



July 2007