Zoe Collage

Lake George Fun

I have had a great family vacation at Lake George this summer. It is incredible to be here and to really take some time off of work. I have told Heidi that this is the most I have not worked in over 2 years. As much as I love education it is great to take a long and I hope well deserved break.

Some great memories from the last few days:

• Hiking Buck Mountain with Amelia, Yoda, and Seth. Amelia, Yoda, and I had hiked it 2 summers ago. It was great to recapture the moments where we got to the top and Amelia ate blue berries right off of the bushes. This year she tried out going pee on the top of the mountain. She found a good spot and didn't even get her under ware wet. She was very proud of herself.
• "I had a wonderful time with you!" This is a familiar refrain that Amelia has uttered in various formulations over the last week. She has had moments where Heidi and I had to re-evaluate if we could even be parents because she was behaving so bad. But she has, for most of the time, been a very cute and very good 3 year old.
• We were swimming with Caroline Safford over at the Safford Horton dock and Amelia decided that she needed a tube. At the time she was swimming naked and she ran through the woods to get the tube. It was touching to see her little naked bum running as fast as she could to get to the tube and then running back. What other level of happiness could there be? What other level of safety and fun could there be?

On the Zoe front she has been incredibly cute. She has become a ravenous eater and today at lunch ate a cheddarwurst, a cheese stick, about 50 blue berries, and a peanut butter sandwich. She becomes cuter and cuter by the day