Anna has, luckily, not being playing the sousaphone a lot this year
Nora loves to wear other people's shoes
7x7 Go with Ricci
Settlers of Catan. The main change you need to play it with kids is
to use a lower target number of points to match their attention span.
Six is good. And let the kids place both of their starter settlements before any adults.
Not sure what game this is, but they seemed to enjoy it. Lily: "that's Mysterium"
Cousins visiting!
Joint birthday in Medford
Very excited about her new easel
Row row row your boat
Anna: "I wonder how Lily did that! You would think it wouldn't be sturdy enough." Nora: "Why Lily built that?" Anna: "I don't think Lily built that. That was at Olivia's friends house."
Nora likes a game where we ask her if she is an object, she says yes, we interact with her as one. I think here she's a telescope.
Nora learns to scoot
Bohdi teaches the kids to make hexaflexagons
Visiting Canobie Lake Park
This ride is old but very well designed. You go around a pair of circles connected by a long straight section. The half-circle sections are centrifugally intense but short, with just the right amount of recovery time on the straightaways.
Lily knows no fear
Teaching Anna two-finger Hot Cross Buns
Anna and Julia are very into this plant pathology. Lily is not.
Turkey turkey!
So many apples this year; Rick brought a tree's worth on vacation
After our first Vrbo fell through my cousin was able to line up another one, which had a swimming pool!
Lots of swimming practice for Lily
Lily learns to be comfortable submerged
Making chocolate turnovers with Ezra
We walked to a playground that was way too hot, but the kids liked the merry go round
Nora said she's putting on a belt for a party: "and be nice and cozy, and be lotta cupcakes."
The neighbors are building an addition
Nora is insufficiently strong
Camouflage
Lily helps me make mille-feuille
Nora helps too
Julia singing to Nora with another round of covid isolating
Lily has been watching a lot of Is It Cake, and decided to make a handbag. She bought modeling chocolate with her allowance, and we baked the sponge together.
Looking through photo albums
First floor bathroom, after demo
Prepping carrots for Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving at our house this year because Alice's family got covid and couldn't come
Post-Thanksgiving gingerbread house decorating at Barb and Jon's
Macy has gotten big!
Lee played Jeff and Ricci simultaneously with 2 and 4 handicaps. Despite extensive trash talking, he loses both.
Meeting Allison's family halfway for a walk in the woods
Wheelbarrow rides with Grandpa
Maximizing angular velocity
The MT-40's audio is much better if you record it and play it back on a speaker that isn't tiny and forty years old
Making Christmas ornaments with Grandma
"That's boxes. Little boxes you stack up into a tower.""
Fiddle tunes with Grandpa
Nora has a ride on the spinny swing
NC Zoo
Including a helicopter
Nora imitating the gorilla's expression. A few minutes later they started fighting, which really scared her, and now she doesn't like gorillas or other non-human primates.
An attempt to take a family picture
So much time on the swing!
Picking out a Christmas tree
"I like how Nora's dress goes so well with the piano"
Jumping on Ricci's couch
"Nora decided to sit on my face."
Making cookies at David and Al's new place
Lily and I made the sled when she was not much older than Nora
"Morgan looks very proud in that picture." "He almost looks like Spencer!"
Family Christmas in Medford
Lily gets a clarinet
"Anna brought too much stuff"
Making giaotze
"That's me kind of stuck in a bin full of dressups"
Blind test to see if the Lily could taste the "tasteless" iron powder; she went 0/4.
Peeling apples for pie
Lily clues for codenames
Playing Manhunt at Tower Park
Nora said: "I wanna sit on it". Sit on what? "Onna sunset."
The salad spinner is very entertaining
This Magic game went from 9p, to 12:15am. Then we played Brass Birmingham.
