Old North Bridge

On a sunny after school adventure last week, we headed to the Old North Bridge in Concord (town next door).  This is the site of the first day of battle of the American Revolution.  We'd been once before last year but Dagny was in the front pouch so I was not sure how far she'd be able to walk, though it's not terrible far--she does have pretty short strides and the tendency to wander....

 But before I knew it, we were at the bridge!

 

 We carefully crossed the wooden bridge (replica of original) along with locals walking their dogs and a busload of tourists.  On the other side, we came around some great rocks and Finley couldn't wait to collect them to toss them into the river.

 Finley put them in his empty snack tupperware while Dagny put hers in her still-half-full-of-goldfish tupperware until we realized the problem and asked Finley to carry all their rocks.

 Then, it was time to head back to the bridge to toss the rocks.

They threw all the rocks they had found and the finished crossing the bridge only to find a great pile of new rocks that "needed" to be thrown in, too.  We did more than our share of contributing to erosion...but it was fun!  On our way back to the car, we stopped for some photo ops and goofing around.

Dagny was a champ walking all on her own without a single "pick me up" request.  I can't get over what a difference a year makes and how much our two kiddos have fun chatting, laughing, singing, and encouraging each other.  When I told Dagny to keep walking on the way back to the car, Finley ran over to her and asked if she wanted to take his hand.  While she said, "No, thank you," the sentiment was totally adorable.  Finley told me that he can't wait to go back to the bridge :)