Catching up-New York and Pennsylvania

While we were in New York, we met up with a friend of mine and her family at the museum. Here's her little boy on the carousel-isn't he a charmer?

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The museum had the most amazing grocery store setup we've seen. Everything was tagged with barcodes that really scanned at the checkout and printed a receipt with what you 'bought'! It was very well done and the kids loved it.

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Power shopping in the meat department

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Ian walked around and pointed at something and said, "We can't buy that because it's not on sale." After another lap around the store, he said, "Oh, it's on sale now! Now we can buy it!" My little savvy shopper already. :)

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The kids adored Laurie and insisted that she be the cashier for them

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Beaming with pride at his block creation

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Ian and Hunter at the exhibit where it looks like you're on Sesame Street-this was very cute

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Rinnah joining in

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Laurie's little princess

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Ian 'worked' at this hot dog stand for at least 20 minutes, serving up pretend hot dogs, burgers, tacos, and ice cream to anyone who would play along.

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Rinnah is explaining to me how to play her game

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Making music

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Riding the train

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The whole gang (minus Laurie's hubby who was taking the photo)

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After New York, we went to Pennsylvania. A big part of that was so we could see a huge RV show. That was fun, just walking around and looking at all the different types of RVs, from the tiny little teardrop trailers to huge luxury motorhomes and everything in between. That's also where we were for Ian's birthday.

Rinnah having fun with stickers

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Ian playing with the dump truck he got for his birthday

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Playing with the trains, including a few new pieces he got for his birthday

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I attempted to take Ian out for birthday pictures. That didn't work so well, but they did have fun playing in the leaves.

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We also made a brief visit to Chocolate World before we left. The kids adored the chocolate tour ride, especially the singing cows. We rode at least 3 times and we weren't there very long!

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From Hershey PA

Catching up-New York

After Ohio we went to a campground near Rochester, New York. While we were there my mom came up for a visit.

Field trip to Niagara Falls:

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The kids' first trip to Canada! We walked over the bridge. Ian was very impressed-this was him until we got back to the US.

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It rained that day and Rinnah was far more impressed with the giant puddles on the sidewalk than the waterfall.

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We also enjoyed our time at the campground. There was a sandbox there which our kids adored. We have about a million sand toys, so after the first day our kids were very popular at the RV park. They made a lot of new friends by sharing all their toys.

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Golfing at the campground-Ian even wore his golfer shorts:

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Rinnah found it easier to just drop the ball in the hole

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Catching up part 1-Ohio

This blog has been so sadly neglected. It's just been a crazy past month or so. But here goes my attempt at catching up.

We were in Ohio in late August. We found a great park nearby in Columbus where we played most evenings. Ian even took the training wheels off his bike (he'd been begging for weeks) and started practicing riding.

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Building a fort at COSI

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The fort's demise a few minutes later

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In Cleveland, we got to tour the student union building that Jeremy helped work on. He designed the software to display on this tv screen.

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Rinnah loves to draw

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