We had some time to fill in September without the beach to keep us occupied.

So, we went on some outings to the Rye Nature Center and the Bronx Zoo.  Here are the kids checking out a lizard at the Rye Nature Center, with a beehive in the background.

Afterwards we had lunch at Au Bon Pain in Rye.

A Mr. Softee sighting!

You might think from this pic that Sarah’s excited about eating yet another chocolate ice cream cone, but in fact it’s a chicken leg!  Her new favorite part of the chicken.

We also went back to the Bronx Zoo and checked out the Children’s Zoo.  Sarah got a close-up view of some prairie dogs.

Blaine got a huge kick out of feeding this alpaca.

Both kids loved these working water pumps which pumped water into a trough for a donkey.

And, of course, we also spent lots of time on the mundane, like grocery shopping.

Goodbye summer…

A few more pics from the end of August!

We loved having Mom-Mom and Aunt Molly visit the last weekend of August.  It was another hot one, but we made it out to the beach on Friday and Saturday.  But first, Mom-Mom and Sarah did some stretching.

Aunt Molly dove right in when we got to the beach.

And then we had a yummy lunch at the snack bar after a morning at the beach.

Uncle Tim and Aunt Liz came to visit us on one of the hottest weekends of the summer, if memory serves!  We decided to skip the beach on day one and instead did a quick neighborhood tour of Walter’s hot dog stand, Manor Beach, and ice cream in Mamaroneck.  The rest of the time we tried to spend in air conditioned places.  I guess I was so hot I forgot to take pictures, though I did get this cute video of Tim playing catch with Sarah at the playground before dinner.

On Sunday we decided to venture out to the beach and tried to keep cool the old fashioned way, by staying in the water.  We loved having Tim and Liz visit and getting to share our town beach with them.  Here are a few other pics I have:

Sarah continued to practice putting on her own clothes.

Blaine helped me repair this old Ikea table we have in the front hall.

Blaine was pretty excited for another train ride.

We were so sad to say goodbye to our babysitter, Kathryn, on 8/4, so she could go back to school!

We relaxed the under-2-no-tv ban and let Sarah enjoy some of the Olympics.

Sarah and I enjoyed Blaine’s end of camp sing-a-long concert at Camp Murray.  We’ve been singing the song “We Are the Dinosaurs” ever since.

Some extra pics from July!  Sarah loves the glasses from our doctor’s set.

Sarah started trying to get herself dressed in the morning.  Here she is proudly showing off the first day she put her pants on (we ignored the fact that the tiger is supposed to be on the other side).

We had a lovely visit from Gram and Grand-dad on the weekend of July 23-24.  We spent some time at the beach (and we were all impressed by Gram’s swimming skills!), read a lot of books, and ate some delicious food.