Sailing Camp and Water Bottles

Colton and his buddy Ronan are enjoying their last week of sailing camp.  From what they tell me Colton somehow capsizes his boat daily and it is never really "his fault" and in order to get the water out of the boat two kids get to be pulled behind it like tubing and that is super fun.  Clearly there is a correlation.  This week Colton was chewing on one of those plastic rings to a water bottle and he laughed causing the plastic thing to get stuck in his throat, choke him and then eventually he swallowed it.  That was an interesting trip to the doctors office.  They basically looked down his throat to make sure it wasn't swelling and to gauge how sharp the plastic was.  It ended with the doctor telling Colton that what goes in must come out and to wait for it to pass naturally.  He also told Colton that "this is the stupid stuff men do, welcome to the club".

Never a dull moment.

Just hanging around

A few photos of my favorites from this past week.

Hiltons in July

The Hiltons flew in for their annual US visit a little earlier this year and Colton and I were happy to have them stay with us for a very brief visit.  We packed our time with endless stories, laughs, beers, food and then they moved on in their journey.  Although we don't see them as much as we would like when we are together it is as if they lived next door and not across the pond.  Miss them already!

Hulls Kitchen with the gang

Chucks and Wayne

Finn and Becks cheering Colton on at camp

Boys had a sleepover and a midnight nerf gun battle

Lisa stopped in for a hug

Coffee with my girl 

Norfolk Sheriff's Youth Leadership Academy

Colton spent the week with Riley and Brayden at the Norfolk Sheriff Youth Leadership Academy.  They spent days working in teams, problem solving, completing challenges and endless team building activities.  The boys LOVE this camp.  They last day of camp the families are invited to watch them complete various activities they did throughout the week (ziplines etc.).

Summer fun

Baseball all week for this kid.  He is in his glory playing with his buddy Ben who he has known since preschool.  I am certain that we are foreshadowing trouble with these two in the years to come!

Where have we been...it's now 2018????

I came across my blog today when randomly googling mine and Colton's names.  It seriously brought back so many good feelings that I thought...it's not too late to try to get back on the bandwagon.  So where have we been the last 6 years?  EVERYWHERE.  Time really flew and I am sort of sad that I didn't capture all the important and not so important moments here on the blog.  So it is time to recommit.  Colton has told me that he sometimes comes back to this blog and reads stories of things he no longer remembers so the least I can do is try to check in with updates every now and again so making the trip down memory lane isn't so hard someday!

Our time has been spent living in the moments with our families and friends.  Traveling, sports, new friends, old friends, home improvements...the list goes on.  We have both grown figuratively and literally and Colton is now 12 and almost as tall as I am.  He is man-size and his looks are changing  daily but he is still a gentle giant with the heart of a sweet little boy.  I have more grays and am not as young or thin or energetic...but life is seriously amazing.   I am not going to back track and fill you in on everything but I can start from today and show you where we are going forward.

Colton's lax team "Boston Kings 2024"

Sailing Camp at the South Shore Yacht Club

Camp is more fun with your best friend Ronan there

Full time goalie now

Last weekend we were in Stowe, VT for a lax tournament - this picture is from Wally and Alicia's Stowe farm

Summer baseball with the boys

Richie, Colton, James and Ronan - this is the gang

Hanging with the girls...

Colton and I got to spend and entire weekend with the girls while Wally and Alicia were out of town.  We had a great time, even Riley came over to hangout with us.  Cousins are the best!

Brayden breaks his arm...

Long story short...Brayden fell off one of those wobbly bridges at the playground at camp and broke his arm.  A very bad break too.  Basically, I picked him up from camp, rushed him to South Shore Hospital and they rushed him via ambulance with morphine into Children's Hospital for surgery.  He broke it completely in half and surgery required pins and a pretty extensive surgery since the bones were so smashed and the muscles and bones in his arm were all over the place when the surgeon went in to repair it.  He had a total of 3 casts this summer and is still healing.  The kid was a trooper though, any other kid (i.e. Colton) would have cried, freaked or screamed, not our Beezy (I mean I do think he was in shock though).  The only nice thing that came of this is he was spoiled rotten for two months straight!  What a trooper this kid is!

Foodies

Of course my son is a foodie.  Have you met his parents?  This summer we feasted on lots of lobster, mussels, clam chowder and you guessed it...ice cream and frozen yogurt.  Sort of hungry thinking about it.

He orders like a man..

Really kid...who is paying for this feast?

A date with mom has to end with some Pinkberry.

Yummm - homemade ice cream from peaceful meadows.

Sporty Summer...

Here is a look at just some of the sports we did this summer.

Lots of beach time with the skimmer board and his boogie boards.

Nana-Banana was too cute cheering Colton on at his summer hockey league.  

She even tried on his equipment...stinky mistake!

It's like riding a bike...we taught Nana how to ride again.

Checkout the new lacrosse stick.

You can't play pass without your best friend having a stick also!