Happy Father's Day

We celebrated Father's Day this past Sunday.  Finley slept until a startling 7:35am...just to counter, Mother's Day began about 6:15amm but I digress...and we enjoyed breakfast together.  Finley's NY grandparents are kind enough to bring us a dozen bagels from their local bagel shop each visit and slowly but surely, Finley is coming around to the idea that even a month+ old, frozen and then defrosted NY bagel is still way better than anything Boston can offer in the bagel department.  Dan is always kind enough to tear off some of his freshly toasted everything bagel to share with his son and Father's Day was no different.  Then, Dan headed off to frisbee practice and Finley and I met up with Casey, Megan, and little Darwin at Wilson Farms for Strawberry Fest 2012.  Granted, the Forseters had been to Strawberry Fest the day before to partake in all the festivities, but Finley was game to go again and enjoy Darwin's first hayride with him. 

Finley gave them a big hello and showed us the way to the "big blue tractors" for his second hayride of the weekend.  Casey snapped a great photo of us - both boys smiling at the camera, awesome!  

Then, we were off! Finley was happy as a clam, but he seemed to enjoy the fact that Darwin was smiling and laughing as much as the sights of the farm.  He couldn't wait to tell Dan how much Darwin loved the ride. Afterwards, we went off in search of some free strawberry shortcake samples while Darwin and his folks did some herb shopping.  We ate our cake, visited the pigs, chickens, llama, and fish, and checked out the wide array of fun sprinklers and hoses in the garden shop (Finley can't seem to get enough of pretend watering plants these days) before going on our way.  We had to steer clear of the house for a couple more hours since we were having an open house at our place to Finley selected a playground nearby and then we went out for pizza and our favorite pizza shop.  Dan met us there after practice, just in time to eat two of the slices we had left on the tray.

Once back at home, Finley took a long nap, something he can nearly be counted on to do these days.  Dan was almost giddy to get him up and play, so it was with great self control we waited and waited...Despite the lateness of the hour when he finally awoke, we all changed and piled into the car to head to a nearby beach just to extend the Father's Day fun.

 We gave Dan a framed photo for his desk of him and Finley at the school fair from last weekend and opened cards that had arrived in the mail.  Finley and Dan enjoyed their usual book and bedtime routine and it was the perfect way to end such a special day.