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Before I dive into our vacation photos I thought I’d post some of my favorites from June. Here goes!

Quinn and his friend Luke hiking at the Sheep Pasture (notice Quinn’s inside out shirt – mind you, I’m not complaining, I just find it amusing! The previous day Miles got himself dressed and put everything on backward. Fun times here, oh yeah.)

Testing out the slip’n’slide for the first time (we bought at the church fair last fall so it’s been a long wait!)

Testing out the new camera, too!

First dip in the pool for 2010! Don’t worry, the water is crystal clear now – we just couldn’t wait that long to take a dip. Think the boys like the water?

We celebrated Father’s Day and Becca’s birthday by going to a Brockton Rox game. It was SO HOT that the seats were difficult to sit down on! But before the game we got to go out on the field and toss tennis balls around. Check out Miles’s great catching form in the picture below – I guess his feet have to be off the ground to catch the ball! After we were done with our game of catch, Miles said to Becca, “that was a fun baseball game!” I think he thought we were leaving even though the game hadn’t even started yet. Oops! Luckily he still had a good time, despite the heat. We were all really happy to jump in the pool once we got back from the game!

Quinn also finished up kindergarten in June and is already looking forward to first grade in the fall. Yikes! Miles is starting preschool in the fall and is having fun playing school with Quinn this summer.

There are lots more photos in the June album! Go check them out!

A couple weeks ago we went to the Roger Williams Park Zoo for Quinn’s preschool field trip. It was postponed once by rain, but fortunately they were able to schedule another date for it (last year it was cancelled outright and Quinn was very disappointed!) Quinn had a great time visiting the zoo with his school friends, though it was hard to keep a large group of preschoolers together! Fortunately Quinn was very good about staying with his teacher when Miles lagged behind. He took his own photos with his camera, so once I get those downloaded onto his computer we can see if there are any good ones! But for now, here are some of mine. Here’s Quinn and Miles at the crane exhibit – apparently Miles found the docent there very amusing!

Quinn posed in front of the penguin sign for me:

Here’s Quinn with his friends Ryan and Hayden. When we first arrived at the zoo, Quinn asked me if Hayden was going to be there, and I told him I thought she would be. He was very pleased and told me that he and Hayden were “best friends forever!”

After the zoo we visited the carousel, which we hadn’t been to before, and the boys loved it. It was at this point that I realized that I had broken my camera (I dropped in on the floor in the bathroom!) and I couldn’t view the top left corner of the screen. I was hoping the photos would be ok and they are, so luckily the camera itself isn’t broken, just the screen. Sigh. Just what we need…something else to spend money on!

Here’s Quinn and his friend Caitlin:

And we ended the trip with ice cream cones! It was a fun day!

There are more photos in the June 2009 album if you want to check them out!

Quinn’s preschool graduation was postponed twice because of rain (have I mentioned that we’re having the gloomiest June EVER!?) but they were finally able to have it last week. Although he was quite insistent beforehand that he would NOT wear a cap and gown, he did wear them, and he did fine. We could tell he was self conscious about the cap – I think it probably felt like it was going to fall off. But he didn’t have to wear it for long. Here are Miles and Daddy waiting (impatiently) for the show to start. (Later Quinn told me that the reason they took so long was that his teachers made everyone go to the bathroom before they went outside – smart teachers!)

Here come the graduates!

They all lined up and put on a show for us – first up was a train song, and I think Quinn had more fun looking at me than paying attention to what he was supposed to be doing, but we could hear him singing!

Following that, the whole class sang and danced the “Locomotion” which was very funny! I think we have some of that on video so I’ll try to put that up here soon. After that, he got his diploma and goodie bag, and then showed off his cool graduate moves:

Then it was time for ice cream sundaes and cake! There was even a cake for Quinn to take home.

We all had a great time!

There are more photos in the June 2009 album if you want to check them out!