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Tuesday, October 24, 2017

4 years + 4 months!

Summer is in full swing over here.  Ryder is definitely getting into a summer routine of sleeping in (sometimes til 8, just like when he was a baby!  What a great kid!!), watching some dinosaur or fire related tv and then wreaking havok!

 At the beginning of the month, there was a lot of 4th of July stuff that Ryder loved.  He loved all the candy and fire trucks of the Gloucester and Rockport parades.  He got the hang of grabbing that candy pretty quick!  Of course, the Rockport Bonfire was a huge highlight.  The look on his face when they lit the bonfire and while it was burning was priceless!  He was acting like a firefighter, telling us to keep back and then kneeling down to spray the fire with his imaginary hose!  Later in month, he got to try on a real fire fighter's suit, so this has probably been his best month ever.

He is now (again) completely obsessed with trash and recycling trucks.  We used to have to fight with him as he wanted the trash bins out on the side of the road at all times; luckily he doesn't do that as much.  But he does take them out to play trash pick-up with them all the time.  The trash and recycling guys on our route are super nice and have stoked his interest in their jobs by letting him throw stuff in the truck and climb up to pull the compactor lever!  We officially can't go anywhere on Wednesday because we would miss trash and recycling pick-up and that would be a crime!

There is a group of 2-6 summer kids who come to their beach house periodically over the summer and Ryder has loved having all these extra kids to play with.  Somehow they have started playing games with pirates, so that is another new obsession to add to his collection. 

The funniest thing that happened this month was when we came into the kitchen to see that Ryder had made a "salad" of green tomatoes, grass, cinnamon and chili powder, all by himself.  He had been using a sharp knife, but we replaced that with a butter knife, and he kept cooking.  He brought the salad to my birthday party for people to eat!

Testing the waters

I love that face!

Getting ready for a paddle

Ready to go out on the kayak

Pondering the river

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