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More England photos coming soon too.  There are just so many to go through.  But, at least I made it this far this month! :)

As I post (this is what Lowell is up to):

.Every weekend, this is what the boys are up to.  Lowell takes the big hills/jumps with his balance bike since it's hard to pedal up hill for his little legs.  But he can go super fast on his pedal bike, especially now that he's ditched the training wheels.  He's made lots of friends at the dirt bike track, especially his friend, Travis, a pretty cool 15-year-old who thinks Lowell is going to go pro-bmx soon.  He already has some fans.

Thing One and Thing Two (or Red Fish Blue Fish?)

I love my cousin, Sam and wish we could play together every day!

Lovely summer holiday

Walking the banks of the canal near Granny and Papa's

Little Chief's setting up camp, and taking care of important business

Beautiful site for a teepee

Wrestling with Uncle Kris and Cousin Sam

A boy's menagerie

 May was a month of collecting. We rounded up this skink, the sphinx moth caterpillar below (dubbed "Butthorn" by Lowell and Ian), lots of woolly bear caterpillars, grasshoppers, and an anole.  We also captured some Black Swallowtail caterpillars and a Giant Swallowtail caterpillar from our bolted parsley plant and watched the metamorphosis.  We had cocoons coming out our ears!  And we also learned a lot about caterpillars.

The skink

 This is the face Lowell makes when he's really proud of something he's done, but he doesn't want you to know he's proud.  He's trying not to smile about the fact that he just picked up a skink without crushing it and he managed to hold on to it.