Dinosaur Park sandbox, UWS New York City

Hanging out in NYC with the Purple Circle gang

Working hard at grandma's house...at least some of us

Summer afternoon

Rio's first day of vacation. So we frolicked among the fields of the Heath picking up wildflowers, chasing baby rabbits and playing hide and seek.

Toilet training in full force

Except Ila took a liking to it the other way around.

Practicing for the Wimbledon - we do have ten more years, so there's hope!

For the past six Mondays Rio has been diligently going to tennis lessons. She started off with not being able to hit the ball to "making good ball contact" according to her instructor. She usually insists to stay on afterwards at the tennis club and continue her practice, with Ila being the ball girl.

He's a very kind snail

This past weekend we went to Dorset along the coast. We stopped in a village bordering the Lulworth Cove. The pebbly cove is lovely, but the kids were already spoiled by the spotless satin smooth beaches around Bournemouth, so we took a break at one of the Dorset ice cream parlors before heading off to pursue other sandy beaches - and rescued few snails (or rather, contributed to ruining people's gardens by strategically placing lots of little snails on juicy lettuce leaves).

Another nice discovery in the region was Wareham, which is worth a stop for its nice village atmosphere, chain-free high street, and the Wareham Forest.