Massachusetts

my favorite!

it's so good to be home! don't get me wrong, we had an AMAZING time but there is no place like home! we didn't have any set schedule for things to do, all we knew is that we wanted to go to the beach as much as possible and eat seafood everyday! mission accomplished! we went to the beach 5 out of 7 days and ate lobster rolls, crab cakes, haddock chowder, clam chowder, fish and chips, and scallops to our hearts content! baby bird loved the beach and we probably could have spent every day at the beach and she would have been happy. the two days that we did not go to the beach we rode the train into Boston and Salem. we went to the children's museum of Boston, which was amazing! baby bird loved the countdown to kindergarten room. she loved sitting at the table and "feeding" the rabbit. we had such an amazing time and as nice as it is to be home it was really hard to leave.

can you tell she loved the beach?

how beautiful

in true commuter fashion: eating dunkin donuts on the train

playing at the playground

picking apples in Ipswich

at the children's museum!

 baby bird and arthur!! shes a star!

daddy thinks hes a meteorologist!

she finally touched the starfish!

lobsta roll!

love

baby bird LOVED Gloucester!

on the way home from the airport!

i forgot to mention that while on vacation we lost a dear friend. R.I.P Banty. baby bird got banty for her first birthday and they had been inseparable until we went to the swap shop in Rockport. it either ended up in the dumpster or someone else picked it up. here is the last picture i have of banty. we had to go buy a new one and baby bird seems to have adjusted well to it. actually i think i was more upset that we lost it than she was. i cried! i wanted her to have it for the rest of her life. a little piece of her childhood that she could cherish forever. hopefully she will love this one as much as the last.

dirty old banty we will miss you!