Trip to New Hampshire

Well, we've officially been back in France one week. It's 8:25 a.m. and this is just about the time we wearily crawled in the door last Friday morning, children and suitcases in tow.
Stealing a few minutes over my tea this morning to upload some more photos.
Yesterday I unloaded the last suitcase and today I pack up new suitcases to ship Estelle off for 2 weeks with Papy and Manou, and ourselves alongside for one night in Provence at TaTa Yvette's.

Faithful readers may remember that my Blog Chronicles of our trip Stateside left off just after 4th of July weekend and I had arrived in NH chez Lisa & Dan to visit them and my mom. Sister Laura also came up from below Boston to visit for one night.
Here's what Dan was up to....

Laura caught mom, Lisa and I enjoying someone else's blog!
That's the only photo I have of my mom from the whole 4 days! She was paparazzi-weary so I let her be. (Can you imagine how many photos you have to pose for when you have 11 children and 26 grandchildren? Staggering!)

Estelle did a lot of tearing around Lisa and Dan's big house. They have two different sets of stairs to get to their 2nd floor and that was VERY entertaining for Estelle. As was the dishwasher, apparently.

We did a lot of lounging around as the weather was SOAKING WET.
p.s. Laura you left those socks at Lisa's.
Here's cousin Ana at the playground with Estelle, in between rainshowers. Should be noted that Ana was on a marathon of playing with Estelle. I almost felt like I should be paying her, the poor college grad that she is....
A slightly different look than the parks in Nice!
Retro toys:
Rain Rain Go Away.
Story hour at the New Boston Library....
Who is that woman in between Lisa and I? The Milkman's daughter? How is she our sister? We always said Laura looks nothing like us.....

One morning Laura gave us pedicures.
Heaven.... now if this isn't sisterly love, what is?
Enjoying the baby over tea....

We had a great few days before going back up to VT and getting ready for Thomas' arrival....Thanks to the whole New Boston crowd for being our wonderful hosts.

Time to get my day going so I'll sign off, but here's a sneak peak at the next installment with a little video....

Estelle on Uncle Paul's swingset. July 15th.