I’m kind of overwhelmed with how quickly the kids are growing. I don’t know if I’ve ever written that before – but especially now that Ezra approaches age 12 in August: there seems to be so much more responsibility coming around the bend. He’s already talking about High Schools to apply to, and we are running into his friends moving around on their own on the NYC subway system. (I am close to letting him get to Time’s Square for camp each day on his own, but just cannot bring myself to it yet. It’s great to have theater camp there, but it’s also a known fact that all the strangest New Yorkers are walking around that area of town – in case you are ever acting as tourist there and wondering about this..)
When we went to the beach on 4th July, the kids made dinner for us, and then cleaned up the house before we left. I’m shocked to see that even all the ‘toddlers on the lake’ in Cornwall are suddenly seeming like teenagers !
Even Zoe moves around on her own lately. We gave her a few dollars for the Cornwall rummage sale and let her roam freely to shop for a few hours with a friend. She found a very excellent twin version of Louie for just a dollar!
clean up and cooking fish tacos at the beach: 
grown kids on the lake! 
This little guy will probably need us longer than our kids do;
EZRA ZOE 