Dominican Vacation v

And then people started to get sick.
When this one felt better, he'd drive around the neighborhood. We took this special trip just to take some beach pictures on our last day.And if the fever stayed away long enough, he'd ponder life and death.And then crawl into bed to watch Transformers.When we ran out of gringo Tylenol we bought some Dominican poison acetaminophen. Danny thought it tasted so bad he puked in our bed. Our top sheet thus soiled, we slept under a comforter to keep the mosquitoes off. Some of us with the "sangre dulce" slept fully clothed, and found that socks offer no protection against the skeeters.

Dominican Vacation iv

And then we got all prettied up for the wedding.
This one pretended to be a plumber.This one was a bulldozer.

Dominican Vacation ii

Some crazy ball game was invented.
He imagines himself a goalie.Ball retrieval with monkey feet.Taking over the "pirate ship".
This one does not like sun, sand, or water.
This one is in charge of silliness.

Vermont

Vermont, or "Vee-mont" as Danny would call it, was cold.
But fun.
DHV rolling down the hill.The ladies.The Stomp Rocket Jr was a big hit. Sort of the pool in Sag Harbor, we were out first thing in the morning for some stompin, regardless of temperature (think below freezing).
Not to be confused with the Super High Performance Stomp Rocket, which we haven't tried out yet.
Cold but smiling.

More Sag Harbor

Crocs + water = hilarious!
Jammie time.Stacey and Baby Kate.Cutie.Where's Matt?Baby fat is nature's wetsuit.This barely captures how cold it was.Warming up in the sun, spa style.
Red hair!Jumping to "lifeguard."There's Matt!See ya!

Leigh wears McNabb Jersey, Then Walks!

After a motion-sickness inducing trip on the Port Jefferson Ferry, we arrived at our home sweet home. Leigh decided she was ready to walk.

You can compare to prior attempts at locomotion by DHawk (check out that Eagles jersey) and Leigh!

Pools = Dangerous

At 0700 this morning, Danny insisted on going into the pool. Never mind that the sun was barely up and the air temperature was in the 50s!
Note that "de lifeguard" is cold but attentive.

When it got sunny and beautiful this afternoon Danny was back at the pool. He managed to fall in the deep end, twice (100% submersion with life-threatening potential). Prompt extraction by the lifeguard prevented serious injury. It shook us up enough to go buy a personal flotation device that afternoon. Danny wore this wonderful device out of the store (like DadKV used to do with shoes) and again at home. He recounted the day's events.
"What did you see, Daddy?"
"What did you say to Mommy?"
"What was I doing, Daddy?"

"Did you see my head peek out, Daddy?"

"Was I over der, Daddy?"
"Did you see my arms and legs moving?"
"What happened next, Daddy?"
As MomHV was drying him off after the second time, he said, "Two times was cool, Mommy!"

At bedtime SHV told him, "get ready for another good day of vacation tomorrow."
"With no drownin, Mommy!"

Sag Harbor

Posting while on vacation is always a fun thing!
D-Hawk had a great day at school on Tuesday - no accidents, no crying, better socialization. Afterwards, we scooped him up and headed for Sag Harbor, NY.

Here's the boss man scoping things out with some binoculars, topside on the ferry. It was a pretty cool moment when he realized he could actually see things through the binocs. (He also asked to wear the McNabb jersey to school!) The next morning was microfleece pajama-time!Leigh liked it.Outside, a polar bear with a farmer's tan was spotted.After this, our little polar bear (now 100% potty trained, thank goodness) sat on the toilet and said to Daddy, "sometimes the polar bear has to use the potty with his Daddy."

Running to throw a croc in the pool.