Summer Adventures

We started out the summer with a trek to Colorado at the end of May to see my little brother graduate from high school, and we're headed soon to top off the summer with a week on the southern Maine coast - just the three of us in a beach cottage with no real agenda. The weeks in between have been full of splash parks and picnics, backyard barbecues and outdoor concerts and lots of good visits with friends and family. Miriam has learned the joy of roaming barefoot in the backyard, which was the epitome of my childhood summers. Here's a peek at what we've been up to.

 Feeding the giraffes at the zoo in Colorado. Daddy is a pro.

 Someone cannot get enough of Auntie Charlotte.

 Learning about camping from the big kids.

Prepping the garden with daddy.

 Home-grown bouquet

Picnic in Harvard Yard.

Swinging in Colorado

First nap in her big girl "bed"

We take our ice cream seriously

Befriending a goat

Hot weather hair

First time making chapatis with daddy

And as if all those pictures weren't enough, here are two videos that have to be shared - her first splash park of the summer with her friend Rachel and her evening song request ritual with daddy.