First day of school

Today was Elan's first day of school while Mila started on Monday.  We are excited for the new school year..hopefully the kids will have a great year.

Cape Vacation: Sunday

Today was the last day of our awesome vacation.  We again lucked out with a perfect beach day.  The water was crystal clear so the kids got to hunt for Moon Jellys again but this time, instead of throwing them back, we collected them in a bucket. We played more in the water, had races and spent a while on the playground.  After that, we showered and packed up to drive home.  Driving back to Concord we lucked out with traffic and made it home by dinner.  The kids get to start school this week so it was nice to have everything unpacked before going to bed. 

Cape Vacation: Saturday

Today was a perfect beach day. The water was completely flat and there was little wind.  The ocean was full of moon jellyfish, which don't sting so the kids had a blast trying to catch them.  We also swam a lot and played catch, monkey in the middle and other silly games Elan came up with. 

After we finally pulled ourselves away from the ocean we got cleaned up and went  out for ice cream. Our final night on the cape we decided to do s'mores and watch the stars come out.  

 

Cape Vacation: Friday

Today the weather wasn't predicted to be great so we decided to spend the morning at the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History.  It is a cute museum that had a ton of activities all around the museum for the kids. On the way home we stopped for lunch at a little seafood shack on the water and then went to hit some golf balls and ride go carts. 

 

We timed it perfect because as soon as we were done golfing it started to rain.  So we went home and played for a little while.

 It didn't look like the sun was going to come out anytime soon, so we packed up and went to an arcade.  The kids had a blast and won lots of tickets.  They only got a few pieces of candy with their tickets and decided to save up their points for the next time.

Cape Vacation: Thursday

Today Grandma and Grandpa D drove down to spend the day with us.  We started out the morning at the inflatable park. Where Elan got to show off his love of the fast water slides.

After lunch we went to the beach for more swimming and building.

After the beach, Grandma and Grandpa D drove home and the kids were "fixing" all the stuffed animals in the house.  At one point I snuck into their room and the two of them were on the bed with their heads touching discussing how to fix one of the animals.  It was really cute.

We insisted that the kids come outside because the weather was so nice and we bought new bubbles...and somehow that turned into a water fight.

After changing into jammies we started a fire and made s'mores.  The kids enjoyed watching the stars some out and Elan was really into finding the little dipper.  He even knew the whole story..smart kid!