First Visit to Canobie Lake

Dearest Noah and Dylan,
You are thirteen months old now. Your birthday was a lot of fun and you got lots of educational type toys and little cars to ride to help you teach yourself to walk since you sit and push off with your legs. We had the party out by your pool and took lots of video. Uncle Joe gave a set on DVD to your dad plus both he and Uncle Don took much footage. You are still the celebrities in the family! Holly and Ryan couldn’t go but everyone else was there-still no sign of your maternal grandmother. She’s apparently working as a receptionist in the surgical area at AJH. We hear about her through Uncle John, your grandfather and Aunt Kim (L.)
The biggest news of late is that Dylan started walking last week! The week before he was balancing on two feet for short moments but now he is moving those chunky thighs across the room. It is so darned cute! And Noah is walking with hand held but seems to prefer crawling since he can get to pint B much faster. He is a FAST crawler!! That was a nice surprise Sunday when I went over, seeing the yard fenced in! I can bring the dogs over now, at least Ruby once in a while.
Sunday, the plan was to go on your first outing to Canobie Lake. IT rained most of the day and around 3:00 pm it stopped so Nick called his buddy Tyler and we all headed over to Salem, NH after a brief tire inflation job, averting a potential abortion of Operation Canobie. We had the place to ourselves practically since it was the last day of the season and very rainy until the late afternoon. Nick and Tyler ran off for the Zero Gravity thing and we found the Merry-go-round. What a wonderful memory that was-riding around on the circus wagon together. Dad held Dylan. I held Noah who cuddled up against me and watched the lights above with the big eyes. Nobody made a peep! We rode on it a second time before we left and made fun of the goofy guy riding a horse and slapping it’s rear end, dancing to the music.
We also rode the train around the park which was fun, too. There were no other rides we could go on because you had to be at least three years old at Kiddieland! So we went to go eat at one place and realized your sippy cups were missing in action. I ran back to the Mexican food stand but there was nothing and then your dad remembered he left them on the railing at the train stop, also a bag of Vanilla Wafers. We finally left at around 6PM. We would have stayed later but I was already late for dinner at Uncle Don’s (6PM date) Uncle Joe met me over there and Kim seemed a little mad, or at least very hungry and didn’t waste a second heating up my Mexican black bean and chicken soup. They showed us pics and movies of their trip to Europe. Looks like a fun trip!
Your mom and dad have also been looking at houses in Amesbury. They put an offer on one in Newburyport only about a mile and half form here but were overbid. Sunday I’m going with you guys to look at a house on Mill Street in Amesbury right on the river. I think it’s’ a great location/investment even though the land in front is dumpy looking-it’s high enough above the bank and the river is wide there (Powow)
That piece is owned by the Electric Company.. You dad is not in a rush to move right now but he’s keeping his eyes open. Your mom really wanted a beautiful Victorian in Amesbury but the taxes were ridiculous and too many potential problems. Daddy said no. I was impresses when I found your mom and dad have only about 110,oo0 left to pay for their house! That’s about what me and Joe have and we’ve been in it five more years and payed a lot less. Your dad put any money he could toward the principle like money from Uncle Bill when he was paying $500/month.