Summer Visitors

We had a stream of visitors to Hanover this summer - unfortunately, we didn't get pictures of all of them, such as Lisa, because we were too busy just doing stuff!

Grandma came to Hanover for 10 days in May after a trip to Hawaii and brought the Hawaiian Hula to Olivia. Olivia was comfortable with Grandma right away and kept her busy reading and playing.












Olivia also loves visits from the Camera family. Here is Olivia with Sam and Julian at the Montshire Children's Museum of Science across the river, in Vermont.
















Here is Olivia enjoying a (rainy) visit on the beach with Grandad and GrandMary at Rockport, where we spent an enjoyable couple of days when Bob went down to give a talk at the Yacht Club.


We had a great weekend with Lisa Stuebing visiting, and the rain stopped (just) long enough for us to go to the fair.
Olivia had a ball watching these miniature stallions perform - and sucking on her first lollipop that she collected during the parade at the fair. All in all a nice little fair. She came away having decided that she would like a rabbit.

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.