Finn's 6th Birthday

Holy Batman.  Finn is 6!  What a vibrant, enthusiastic, impulsive, active little boy.  Not much has changed since he was little.  Getting smarter, and stronger by the day, he still loves being silly and playing the fool.  Loves his cars, trucks, comics, lego, books and puzzles.  Can now put together most lego designs on his own.  Swimming is also coming along.  Front glide with kick and sometimes back float on his own.  Enjoys the water more and more.   Tabby still loves to follow him around and copy him, which can annoy and frustrate Finn.  Tabby and Finn are finding more and more things to compete over "that dump truck is on my side of car" oh boy.......Loves, loves, loves running, jumping, biking, climbing, and bathroom words!  Trying out some "adult" language and seeing what power it has.  Reading is getting better and better.  He has even read a few books all on his own to his sister.  This year on his birthday we had an ice cream cake of his creation:  red velvet ice cream with mini peach slice candy mix ins decorated with gummy bears.  Yum?  Mum and Dad gave him a PaperJamz electric guitar and amp with which he loved rockin' out.  Nana and Poppa gave him a camera, which he took lots of pictures on and then erased all of them.  He loves the camera and has taken a few really nice shots, and even uploaded them to the computer before erasing them.

Red Pine 2012

I hadn't been up to Red Pine since being on staff in 1992.  20 years!!!! That's a long time.  Wasn't quite sure what to expect.  We were in cabin 12A.  In the grove, behind the paddle tennis courts.  We were next to a nice family who had a son Luke (Finn's age) and an older daughter in LIT (teenager).  We were seated at table 35 with the Menna family who have been coming to Red Pine with their 2 kids for about 10 years.  Freddie (a girl) was 6, and Sam was 8ish.  Freddie and Tabs got along really well and played together at the final dance.  Both Tabs and Finn were a bit apprehensive about the JP program and each day complained about not wanting to go.  In the end they both loved it and made a number of friends.  Finn met one girl "Darquise" with whom he had quite a special bond.  The kids loved camp and were both sad to leave.  We took a little detour on our was home and visited with the Burt Sr.'s for a night.  As luck would have it, the Maholtra-Burt children were headed their way and we managed to get some quality cousin time in before heading home.

 Following the flames to folklore night

 Flag cheek

 At the beach

 Swimming with the noodle

 Family outside 12A with our "whites" on in preparation for banquet night

 Darquise and Finn attempt to capture a friendly chipmunk

 Had they caught one, they were planning on reading it "Curious George"

 At the playground on the cool teeter-toter/balance beam

Tabs on her beloved "baby swing".  Which she was obsessed with and would spend much time in.