Ocean Sledding

We brought out the sled for the ever popular OCEAN SLEDDING.

Cam is not sure about this nonsense...

loving it

One Mile

The 19th annual Cigna 5K was held in Manchester on Thursday night. Emily heard me talking about it and showed an interest in running in it. I did not pay too much attention to her request until she made it 3 times, and then Rick offered to run with her. I was watching the race with some friends at the one mile mark so Rick and Emily ran the first mile and then we watched the rest of the race together. Emily ran almost the entire mile and seemed to have a good time! It was a perfect distance for her.

heading for Donna's sprinkler

Fun with Cam

On Thursday Cam came to play with us at Sudden Pitch. The kids had a lot of fun playing together. They played in the climbing structure (below) for a long time. I think they were playing some type of "workshop" game.

We were trying to get Cam to move his hand away from his eye.....


...Emily tried too...

Cozy!

Summer at the Palace

Every Wednesday, at 10am, we go to the Palace Theater in downtown Manchester for a play. This is,by far, Emily's favorite part of the week. She plans her outfit a week ahead of time and makes a picture for each princess. The princesses are very gracious when Emily gives them each picture. Aladdin told Emily he would hang Jasmines picture on the palace refrigerator.

Emily does not have any costume from the Wizard of Oz so she wore the Korean outfit (from a Korean co-worker of Rick's) to the show. When we were leaving the show a Korean woman came up to me and said "beautiful outfit, those are worn only by people of distinction
in Korea". I have been calling this outfit a Korean Princess outfit...who knew I was right?

2 Jumps

The Pencil

A crazy one

Jasmine

Emily was lucky enough to go to Camp Coniston on Monday to have a riding lesson. Again this year, she loved ever second. She was able to choose which horse she wanted to ride...and I bet you can guess why see chose Jasmine....Jasmine is a much bigger and faster horse than Pony, who she has ridden the last two years. Emily learned to stop the horse on her own and she was also able to trot!

riding bareback on her old friend Pony

Inventive Spelling

Emily spends most of her time, at home, drawing and asking me how to spell names. In June we were getting ready to go to Camp Coniston (Jen's camp) for their 100 year celebration and Emily wanted to make cards for a few of the horses. I had her sound the names out and write them all by herself. Personally, not being a great speller myself, I think this is a much better way!

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