Farewell to summer!!/バイバイ夏休み!!

So that's it...the summer is officially over...and what a summer it was!!! I made peace with the fact that I must get back into work-mode tomorrow as we took one last family stroll along Jones Beach this morning...the bit of cloud cover in the morning must have kept the crowds away because we almost had the beach to ourselves...it was very nice...and it allowed Madison to get out of her bugaboo a bit more...even if she was a bit camera shy...
とうとうこれで夏休みは終わり...すごい夏だったー!!!明日仕事が始まるクライン家はジョーンズ海にもう一回行ってきました。せっかくの休日だったのに天気が曇ってたせいか海はガラガラ...曇りのおかげでマディソンもバガブーから出て少し海を満喫する事に...

I have learned lately that Madison is fun to put up on my shoulders...
最近これができるように...

Madison also got to take her first actual nap on the beach
(outside her bugaboo)...
最後の最後にバガブーの外でお昼寝する事ができました。

When the sun came out a bit we made sure Madison was fully covered...
except for one renegade foot...
お日様が出て来た時はちゃんと何かをかぶせてあげて...　あっ足が出ちゃってる...

On the way home I got dropped off at Target to purchase my
mode of transportation for the year...
家の帰り道にデイブをターゲットで下ろして、自転車を購入。今年はデイブはこれで学校に通う予定です。

I am really looking forward to biking to work this year...
I think it will be even quicker then taking the train!!
電車よりも速く行けるはずとおお張り切りのデイブ...

So now I will be releasing the reigns of the blog back to my lovely wife, at least during the week...as I really won't have much Madison related information to pass on when I am working and only get to see her a few hours a day...insert tear drop here...but I do realize how fortunate I am to have gotten to spend every minute of the last 9 weeks together watching her grow...Anna and I even caught what we are calling her first official laugh yesterday...it was very cute and something I will take with me and recall fondly when dealing with my students this year...Madison has also gotten very good at smiling at us when she wakes up from a nap or gets done with a feeding...precious, precious thing a toothless smile with her tongue sticking out through the middle...I must be honest that I entered this summer a little resentful of our new little miracle because I thought she was going to ruin my summer, but I can honestly say I have just finished the best summer of my life!! Fall, you have big shoes to fill :-)
またアンナがブログの記録をする順番です。平日はあんまりマディソンと過ごす時間がないからね。悲しー：(でもこの９週間毎日マディソンの成長を見る事ができてとてもラッキーだと思ってます。昨日マディソンの初めての笑い声が聞けました。とっても可愛いかった...最近は笑顔が絶えないマディソン、特にお昼寝をした後やご飯を食べた後の歯無しで舌を少し出す笑顔は本当に特別...本当はマディソンのせいで夏休みが台無しになると思っていたのに確実に今までで一番の夏休みでした。秋、がんばって！