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The Tempter's Voice

Ben & Jerry's Factory:
Forgettable

Vermont:
Lovely

The big storm we hit en route:
BEAUTIFUL

6 Hours in the car with Henry:
Painless (thanks for the DVD player, Grandma and Grandpa Thatcher!)

Did you know that you can swim in Walden Pond?

What's on top of Faneuil Hall?

Dear everyone. Having neglected our blogging duties for the past {ahem} two months, we are dutifully taking this holiday afternoon to update you on our goings-on. We are spending the summer in Boston with the Hahl Family: Belmont Chapter while Josh completes a 7-week internship in town. Did I say spending time with the Hahls? I guess a more accurate description would be, occupying half of their house (not to mention Caleb's entire play area), eating their food, taping up their windows so that Henry's room is dark enough after that glorious 4.30am New England sunrise, having Elise cook for us, and running up their electric bill. They have been good sports about it all -- especially Cabey.

Here are just a few of the many perks so far:

• Grapenut Ice Cream
• Blackberries the size of Henry's fist
• Harvard Square
• House Hunters International
• FRIENDLY'S
• The North End
• New England forests
• Concord & Lexington
• Treasures of wisdom from the talking Donald Rumsfeld doll Ain got for her birthday
• The sweet comb-over Henry has grown since our move here. Yes, we know it looks like a baby toupee. We've been told. But you should see how he oozes with confidence.

Seriously there are not enough days to see all that this place has to offer. Here are some of the pictures we have taken over the past month. Hold on to your hats, everyone, there are a lot. Happy Fourth of July!

Concord and The Old North Bridge

Our Trip to New Hampshire and Vermont

Henry Hanging Out with Mamma and Donald Rumsfeld

Henry Fix

blog update coming soon...

(and yes, we might have accidentally melted all of h's suckers by leaving them in boiling water too long.)

Little H

Breadstuffs

Henry is quickly approaching the six-month mark, and Josh and I decided that today would be the day that we would try to give him his first solid foods. The following video sums up the experience much better than any description could. Enjoy.

By the way, before we threw out the goop, I bravely (?) decided to take one for the team and taste a little bit of the cereal to see what all the commotion was about. It was the the worst thing I have ever tasted (well definitely in the top 3 worst things I have ever tasted, next to drinking milk from the bug glass growing up whenever I got in trouble and the cento pelle that they serve as street food in Palermo). Poor guy. I think we'll try again once he's old enough to handle a McFlurry.