Olivia's Summer Fun

Well, it's August and we're finally beginning to act like summer. We have just discovered the wonderful pastime of swimming in lakes in NH and VT. It took Olivia about 10 minutes to decide that she really DID want to be -and stay!- in the water. She loves to bob around in mama's arms or ride on papa's back, jump from a dock into our arms or walk between us in water up to her armpits. And this has been only her second day of it! There's a place near us on Lake Fairlee where they've even set up an old slide going into the water. Scary, but Olivia kept coming back for more!

A couple of weekends ago, we went on our first camping trip with Olivia in the states. We went to Chittenden State Park in VT, which was just lovely, if different (a deciduous instead of a pine forest/ moose poop instead of mountain goat). Here, Olivia is enjoying her first S'more by the campfire, which she was extremely wary of. She doesn't like that "smoke follows beauty".

We hiked from the campground along a series of clear and rippling connected streams towards the Long Trail, and to a nearby "beaver pond" filled with fun-to-watch salamanders. Toads abound.