We spent the last week of summer as we usually do, going to doctors’ appointments and getting outside as much as possible.  On Monday Blaine and I went into the city for the first time since March to see his doctor at NYU.  On Tuesday we spent the morning at the Rye Nature Center and the kids were excited to show me all the sites they’d learned during their week of camp there.

This rock is known as “dinosaur rock.”

Then we had lunch at bartaco in Port Chester before Blaine’s PT and OT.

On Wednesday we went out for lunch at Polpettina in Eastchester.  We’d been missing their pizza since the Larchmont location closed due to covid and never reopened.

Then we went to the Greenburgh Nature Center for another short hike and we were so lucky to see all the birds of prey being fed.  The eagles were getting some fresh trout, and the red-tailed hawk and great horned owl were both getting some mice.  The man who worked there was so nice and answered all of Blaine’s many questions.

We went to the beach on Saturday and again on Monday!  It was beautiful beach weather, clear skies, not too hot.  We saw lots of friends and everyone was talking about teacher assignments.

One of our dahlias finally bloomed in the front planting bed, just in time for the plants to all get pulled out to make way for the real plantings, which finally got in.  Almost done with this neverending landscaping project.

On 9/8 Sarah lost another tooth!  She’d been wiggling it for a long time.  She has two other wiggly teeth so the tooth fairy will be busy this Fall.

School officially started on Wednesday, 9/9, but the first few days were mostly training on new technology and brief video meetings.  On Saturday 9/12, Sarah had her first soccer league practice.

She was also so happy to get this giant box of rubber bands to continue her rubber brand bracelet making endeavors.  I was going to wait for her birthday, but I thought she might like to make a lanyard for her mask for the first day of in-person school on 9/14.

On Sunday we did our final preparations for school!  We painted Sarah’s nails, and gave Blaine a fresh haircut!

Then we celebrated the end of summer with some s’mores on our new fire pit in the backyard.