This Weekend

On Friday I made Rebecca this shirt in prep for another project that's not going so well. More on that later, perhaps. This morning she refused to wear this one because she "doesn't like brown." Feels so good to be appreciated.

Dad got brave and let Rebecca use a steak knife to slice this banana open. Yikes!

Saturday we cleaned out the garage (again) and Rich set up his fish tank. More on that later, too.

And Sunday we spent the morning doing yardwork, mid-day at the swim beach, and Rich and Rebecca went out for an afternoon fishing trip to fill the tank. Along with a few fish, they brought back some foreign exchange students.

They're part of a one year internship program at the University of Penn, here from Singapore.

And they invited us back to a party at their professor's house.

Rebecca probably had her picture taken 300 or so times over the course of our visit.

And got the biggest slice of this guy's (surprise) birthday cake.

And then another set of girls followed us back to check out the tank and swings.

And Rebecca got to check out their kayak.

This never would have happened to us before Rebecca.

Happy Fathers' Day!!!

So our main plan for Fathers' Day was to stay in the shade. We started with a LATE breakfast in bed. Rebecca woke up at 6:30, but I got her back down until almost nine thirty. I never got back to sleep, but she and Rich had a nice, late morning. I finally got up around eight and started in on all that fun house stuff that got neglected on Saturday. I woke her up in time to do pancakes and presents in bed with Dad. She really is the luckiest girl in the world, having Rich for a father.

That afternoon we had a surprise visit from the Bradleys, who were up our way for a bike race that morning. Rebecca was so excited to see her cousins.

And that night we headed over to Uncle Pat's for a Fathers' Day movie-a-thon, old school style. As in silent, reel-to-reel family movies. Great Aunt Cathy; Aunt Maureen; Rebecca; and Great, Great Aunt Cass.

Saturday at the Beach

Saturday morning we headed down to Brigantine then on to the marina to use the pool with Nana. I did an abominable job with the sunblock, and today we're all peely. This morning Rebecca asked me what the "crunchy stuff" on my forehead was. Rebecca's only bad spot is around one eye and along her nose, which gives her a rockstar look. Bad mommy. Rich opted not to use any, so he's in even worse shape than my zebra striped legs.

Pop came over for burgers that night when we got home, but I guess I was too tired to take out my camera.

Last Week

Rich and Rebecca made s'mores the other night:

And I got some beautiful flowers:

Rich took the day off on Wednesday, and we packed up the canoe and headed over to the river's boat launch. The motor made the trip extra fun. The plan was to catch trout, but we ended up throwing back about a dozen sunnies. Burgers for dinner.

Sidenote: The nearest/best boat launch is next to our town's cemetery. This has started Rebecca's newest obsession: headstones. And no matter how many times we explain that the people are not in the headstones, she keeps asking. And after we go over it, then we get to explain what would happen if you dug up and opened the coffin. One of her favorite words is "decay," so I think she likes to get back to that part of the conversation. Clearly, we've been getting some strange looks when we're out and about and talking about digging up coffins, but I guess it's always something.

Bye Bye Bunnies!

Tuesday was Rebecca's last day in the Bunny Class. Of course she ducked down behind her bucket just when I took the picture, but she is there at the girls' table if you look closely. I was just finally getting used to letting her go. I'm thinking she'll need to do a summer camp.

Our Last Day

We let Rebecca choose where to spend the last day, so we spent the morning at the Magic Kingdom, then headed out to do the rental return/airport stuff when she was ready for a nap and we were done with the heat. You can tell it was a travel day (I hate travel days) by the number of pictures I took.

Day 3, Afternoon

That afternoon we headed over to the Magic Kingdom again to meet up with Amy, Al, and a few princesses. Then sea food for dinner.