Summer has been good to Ryder! He has had a lot of fun adventures, both close to home and out in the big wide world! We took our first overnight camping trip to New Hampshire this month and aside from the fact that his rash was bothering him (which was actually kind of a big deal in a not so good way!) he did great. He had a ton of fun climbing and checking out waterfalls and slept straight through the night in the tent, not even a huge thunderstorm could wake him up! He also had a lot of fun climbing on the rocks at Flatrocks, as well as checking out the marine life. He could sit next to a tide pool looking for little creatures for quite a while. He was rewarded for his patience by all kinds of sea creatures.
We also took him to Boston this month to go to the Harvard Museum of Natural History to see the dinosaur bones. We got sucked into a story time, which he really enjoyed. He sat quietly through the whole story and whispered the answers to the questions to me. This bodes well for pre-school! He loved the dinosaur bones and was so excited to see all of the fossils, but then he got even more excited for the marine habitat replicas. We had to go through that hall twice.
Ryder has always been interested in numbers and this summer we started talking about addition- I forget if he brought it up first, or if we did, but either way he talks about it all the time now. We taught him to use his fingers to add stuff up, so he's always adding things and then quizzing us to see if we also know what the sum is!
Ryder has been playing pirates all summer long, so Janda has been concocting yarns about Pirate Redbeard every night before bed. Ryder loves the stories and has been embellishing and making up his own stories about Redbeard too, it's adorable!
At the end of the month Janda and I undertook a construction project in our mudroom and Ryder has been super involved! He can't really help much in the actual room, but he has been using his new hand-me-down real kid-sized tool set to hammer lots of scrap wood together. He has also been measuring everything! He also rediscovered Bob the Builder when we got the PBS app on our tv, so it's been all construction all the time!
Standing on the ramp
He loves action photos!
He really really loves them!
Getting ready to slide
Still for a moment!
He got tired and let me take a relaxed photo
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