Stout Central: So many pictures, so little time!

The weather here has certainly not been great lately, but we've done our best to still get out on the weekends and enjoy the outdoors and some family time. Last weekend we hung out in downtown beverly and went to an art fair & walked along the beach and that. It was a nice day. That was last saturday...sunday it rained all day. This weekend was fun too. Saturday we went to Newburyport and did their open gallery tours. Free food and wine...need I say more? They have a cute playground there too that Kaelyn really enjoyed. Today we went to the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem. We used the passes the library loans out...what a great program! You can reserve passes for pretty much any worthwhile museum in the area. I got passes reserved for the zoo in a couple of weeks...it gets us in free! Can't beat that - I just hope the weather works out. Next weekend we're still debating if we want to go to the Boston Pops 4th of July celebration - we may do the 3rd instead. You still get the music, just no fireworks which I'm sure would scare Kaelyn anyways. However, all the crowds may scare us all.

These are from today. Do you notice our late June winter-like clothing? This is ridiculous...but we insisted on eating outdoors & defying the weather. We're rebels. It was high 60's and dreary.

I thought these monkeys were cool at the Peabody Essex Museum. I was getting strange looks though. Can you find me?

Kaelyn dressing herself in (clean) laundry. It allowed me to eat my lunch in peace, so I didn't really care. She kept putting my underwear over her head.

What a look.

Saturday we went to Newburyport for the open gallery tours. We got free food & wine, and Kaelyn got to play on the playground. A great day for all.

Kaelyn spent the whole time at the park climbing UP the slide.

Every now and then she'd go down too.

I love this picture.

This one's a cutie too.

Her and another little girl were racing up the slide. They both had the same fascination with it.

Kaelyn still puts everything in her mouth. This is the lid to her pots and pans set. She just kept crawling all around with it looking like a wierdo...that's why we love her!

Just chillin out with a lid sticking out of her mouth.

" What are YOU looking at?"

Last weekend we hung out in downtown Beverly for most of the day. We had some gelato here while Kaelyn napped.

These are out of order. This was the day my mom got into town...we were in Marblehead checking out fort Sewell.

Here's the progression of Kaelyn climbing up on the kitchen table. Notice how Barry gets pictures of the whole thing, proving that he did nothing to stop it. This is her new "naughty" face.