vacation!

With no work and no internet to distract us for a whole week, we took a lot of photos on Martha's Vineyard. Here are some highlights. No pics of adults, per blog tradition, though we may post a few somewhere else; email me if you want to see.

We got there on Saturday evening, and promptly went to our favorite outdoor-seating-only seafood place for fried clams and fried-fish sandwiches. Yum. This year's rental was much nicer and cleaner than the place we stayed the last couple of times we went, which proved especially nice given that we spent much of the next three days indoors due to rain. Sunday morning, though, we went out in drizzle to catch the last day of the Agricultural Fair. There were rides:


There was barbecue and watermelon and all manner of other fair food. Frida does surprisingly well biting off just the right size of bites with her 3.5 teeth:


There was a climbing tower:




Plus a sheep shearing demonstration, a horse-and-cart race, and numerous other fair-ish delights.

Later that week we bought the best granola ever:


And explored a nice little library with a great kids' section and a couple of bookstores to shore up our indoor-amusement options. Frida suddenly discovered the joys of being read to, especially lift-the-flap books, and brought us the same two over and over and over (in addition to, less frequently, non flappy books), lifting flaps so enthusiastically that some tape repairs were necessary by the time we got home. She also had a great time with the kitchen cabinet:





Pasta with pork, corn, tomatoes, and zucchini is YUMMY!



I love Sam's stripy pajamas. I love Sam in stripy pajamas:



On Wednesday it cleared up enough that we went to the Arboretum. Here's Frida in a onesie I applique'd (to cover up the "made in Hawaii" iron-on design that Grandma made when Sam was born! it felt weird to put it on Frida with that on it, so I used some leftovers from the oneside-decorating party we had for Aunt Sara and Uncle Dan before Ezra was born):





Frida fell asleep on J., who was feeling sleepy himself, so after walking around for a while they hung out in the gift shop while Sam and I ran around for a bit getting rid of some built-up cabin fever. He didn't want to be photographed standing still:





That afternoon the skies finally cleared! We went for our first family-of-four bike ride. Here's Frida in her ridiculously huge helmet (it fits her on the inside, though after about an hour it's clear she's tired of holding her head up):



She *loved* riding on the front of Daddy's bike in the WeeRide and squealed with joy on the downhills. And with her in front, and Sam on the trailer-bike in back, J. was slowed down enough that I could just about keep up.

That night we went to Family Disco Night at Flatbread Pizza/Nectar's Club.






Y-M-C-A!



[Second half of the week in a separate post.]