Lonesome Lake

By Sadie

This weekend we went on a backpacking trip to an AMC hut. I crossed this bridge to get to Lonesome Lake.

I am excited to go. I have my own backpack to carry.

 

I’m having fun on this dock. This is near the hut. At the hut I got an AMC junior naturalist book and patch. This is my new friend Remis.

 

Frederick loves it here.

 

Frederick smiles to show that he loves it here.

 

Look at this fallen down tree. It is leaning against another tree.

 

This tree looks like a dinosaur. Another tree pushed it down like this.

 

There are caves on Canon Mountain. I took a picture of one.

 

Frederick got carried up the mountain.

 

Frederick looks out of the backpack.

 

I like it here.

 

Here there is bark. Where did it come from?

 

I’m too cold, so I’m wearing two winter hats, and lots of layers.

 

It was so cold we turned around before we got to the top of the mountain.

 

I had a hiking pole.

 

I liked my hiking pole.

 

Frederick knows how to walk across mud.

 

I love taking a view of Lonesome Lake.

 

Look at the mushroom.

 

Frederick loves the bog bridges.

 

Frederick says, “look at this fallen down tree.”

 

We love it near the stream on a rock. This is where we had lunch.

 

I had a friend named Maya. She is my best friend.

Bike

Sadie graduated from her balance bike to a two wheeler. It only took her ten minutes to learn to ride, although she’s still not comfortable on hills. The balance bike was great and she still uses it when we go on longer walks. In fact on Monday she rode over 5 miles as part of the Patriot’s Day walk from Acton to Concord that her great-grandfather helped start.

Here she is riding her two-wheeler at Lynch Park:

Another recent picture from our trip to Vermont:

Violin

We picked up Sadie’s rental violin today. She starts lessons on Friday. She’s been consistently asking to learn violin for about a year and is very excited to start lessons. Today she said that she wants to play some each day and will decide later if she wants to play trombone as well.

Flying Sadie

Flying Sadie

Sadie completed her 8-week rock climbing class at the YMCA today.  It was a huge success!  On the first day she climbed all the way to the ceiling.  Today she got to do the “flying squirrel” adventure (pictured), which invoplved being pulled, swinging, up to the ceiling.  As the picture shows, Sadie had NO FEAR.

School And Wedding

Here are Sadie’s second day of school pictures (she wasn’t in the mood for photos on the first day).

Fortunately Sadie’s attitude towards scool has been more like the first picture than the second.

Sadie was a flower girl at Lauren and Ben’s wedding this weekend. More pictures are here: http://drop.io/LaurenBen/system.

Ogunquit Pictures

Christmas Morning

Sadie woke up at 5, and we weren’t able to get her back to sleep.  We finally came downstairs at 6:30, and as you can see she was happy with what she found.  Despite the lack of sleep we all had a very nice day.

Tired Angel

Sadie was an angel in our church pageant.  She thought the pagent was too long.  Next year she wants to be something else.

Snowman