What we've been up to.../最近の出来事...

Our Summer started at the end of June as Dave finished up his school year and we officially moved out of our apartment and NYC(our past 6 years of residence)... Even though we got most of the things out of our apartment at the end of May and Dave and his parents making another trip each to CT with more of our things, we got another full car plus some of things at the very end...
クライン家の夏休みはデイヴの学校が終わった６月の終わりに始まり、それと同時にニューヨークのアパートからも無事に引っ越し完了です。５月の終わりにしたトラックいっぱいの引っ越しとその後デイブの両親の車とデイブの車で一回ずつコネチカットまで運んだにもかかわらず、最後の日のクライン家の車もぎゅうぎゅうでこんな感じ...

This is a picture of our full car ride to CT...;-)
車の中の荷物いっぱいの様子...：）

Since Dave's brother, Robert and his family were in Boston for the week we got to move into their house for the first week of our summer... Madison and I were jet-lagged so it was really nice to be able to have our own place to wake up at odd hours and make loud noises for the first few days. Madison also enjoyed playing with some of her cousins old toys...
デイブのお兄ちゃんの家族がボストンに１週間いたので空いている家で夏休みの第一週を始める事が出来ました...マディソンと私は時差ぼけと戦っていたので変な時間に起きて歩き回ったり、家族３人で好き勝手使える家があってとってもラッキーでした。さすが男の子が２人いる家ならではのおもちゃがあってマディソンも楽しんで遊んでいました。


Whenever we come up to CT we really look forward to going fruit picking so one morning we picked g-ma up at her house and went to Belltown Orchards for some blueberry picking:-) Since Madison was wearing her super cute bunny outfit she got from my sister's husband's parents we quickly made a cape for Madison to wear while out on a blueberry field... I think Target will be so proud to see their shopping bags being used in this way... Unfortunately she didn't want to keep it on too long but she was able to pick and eat blueberries very lady like...
コネチカットに来る度に楽しみにする事と言えばフルーツ狩り。そして今は夏真っ盛りでいろんなフルーツが採れる時期です。朝行きがけにリンダお婆ちゃんを迎えに行って、ブルーベリーを採りにベルタウン果物園へ：）今日マディソンが着ていた服はさやかの夫の両親がくれたとってもカワイイうさぎの服だから、ブルーベリーの汁が移らないように私はターゲットの袋でポンチョを制作...ターゲットも自分達の袋の違った使い道を知ったらきっと喜びそうだな...
思った以上に上手に採る事ができたマディソンは、ポンチョすぐ脱いじゃったんだけどね...
Here Madison is picking blueberries for the first time! She LOVED picking blueberries and putting them right in mommy's bucket...
マディソンが初めてブルーベリーを採っている様子！ブルーベリーを採ってはバケツの中に入れる作業を喜んで繰り返していた働き者...


The blueberries were pretty far out in the orchard so you had to take a wagon ride to get there...
ブルーベリーの木がある所までは少し遠いのでこのトラックみたいなのの後ろに乗って行きます...

In the end we had over 12 pounds of blueberries and one tired baby...
結局、１２パウンド(５キロ)のブルーベリーとと〜っても疲れた赤ちゃん一人...


Dave's parents asked us if they got us hotel rooms, if we would like to go up to New Hampshire with Robert's family since they were going to be there visiting relatives for the July 4th weekend. We decided we would like that and packed our bags and left on Saturday morning for some beach time:-) Madison really enjoyed the combination of playing at Great Aunt Gail and Great Uncle Scott's House and Hampton Beach State Park where there was an awesome tide pool for kiddies to play in.
デイブの両親に誘われて急きょ、ニューハンプシャーで独立記念日を過ごそうとボストンから帰って来たばかりのロバートの家族と一緒に土曜日の朝出発！デイヴの伯母さんと伯父さんの新居を休憩地点に、すぐ側にあるハンプトンビーチとデイヴの両親が取ってくれたホテルと行ったり来たりの２日間...マディソンのお気に入りはハンプトンビーチの入り潮の間に出来る大きな水たまりでバシャバシャ遊ぶ事！