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Kyle doing Jedi Academy at Disney World

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Here’s a quick video of part of the Jedi Academy training session Kyle did while we were at Disney last week. We made a special effort to get to Hollywood Studios early to ensure he got one of the limited spots and it was well worth it. I’ll have many more photos at some point, but I just started going through the roughly 3700 images I took during the trip. If the video is choppy, pause it to let it buffer it fully.

An update and some new photos of Kyle

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Hope everyone is well.

Not too much has happened in the last few months. We had a quiet Easter at home. Kyle had a good time playing little league once again. In mid-April, we headed off to spend a few hours at the Edison National Historic Site in West Orange. I had been a couple of years ago (on a Veteran’s Day I had off but Suzanne and Kyle didn’t). We also have our National Parks pass from our trip out west last summer, so it was free. We had a very nice time. Kyle enjoyed it and got another Junior Ranger badge.

Easter MorningKyle the ballplayer

We joined a community supported agriculture (CSA) farm. (A CSA is a program where ones pays a fee for a share. Then, each week, you get a delivery of produce from the farm.) It’s interesting in that each week we get something new, perhaps something that we wouldn’t normally buy. So far, I have eating more greens that I probably have in the rest of my life combined. In early June, they had a potluck at the farm (out in Andover, NJ, about an hour from our house). It was nice to meet some new people, to meet the farmer who would be growing our food, and see his fields. There was a bunch of stuff still in the field that was harvested and delivered to us just a few days later.

Kyle at the farm

Farmer John

The next week, we went with Kyle’s Cub Scout pack their semi-annual camping trip. In the fall, it was a district-wide camporee. This time, it was just his pack. We headed down to Allaire State Park, about an hour away, and had a nice time. In July, Jack and Mary Lou came up for over a week and a half starting just before the fourth, which was nice for us and Kyle. (Suzanne had to be in RI for the next week.)

Learning some knots

No big plans for the rest of the summer. We’ll probably spend a few days here and there while Kyle is between camp and school. Of course, we heading to Disney World in October which should be a great, especially as we’re going to be there with my brother Allan and my mom.

I have finally managed to put some more photos of Kyle:

Kyle’s New Bike

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For Kyle’s birthday, we decided to use some credit from Toys ‘R’ Us that we got from my mom due to a customer service mixup at Christmas on a new bike. We waited until now as January isn’t a great time for cycling. (As you can see below, apparently neither is March.) As Kyle is quite tall, we needed a full 20″ bike. We did buy training wheels, but they don’t fit as we ended up with a multi-gear bike. (We have something on the way that may fix this.) Anyway, here’s a couple of photos of his first ride, with a lot of help from Suzanne.

Brief Update and Some Photos

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We hope everyone is doing well. I thought I’d pass along a brief update and some photos.

We had a very nice time visiting with Suzanne’s parents over Christmas. It was great to see our new niece Ally. My mom and Allan came up to visit with us as well, so we really got to see a lot of family. After the holidays, we celebrated my and Kyle’s birthdays. A bit later, we had the Pinewood Derby at Kyle’s Cub Scout Pack. He did okay, especially for the first time we built a car and my general lack of woodworking skills.

In early February, we had Kyle’s birthday party at Dairy Queen. It was a great time with lots of kids. Kyle also did his first science project. (Suzanne has some photos on her phone, but I haven’t gotten them off yet and it’s non-trivial to do so.) A big event near the end of the month was Kyle’s Cub Scout Pack’s trip to sleepover on the Battleship USS New Jersey. Kyle had been looking forward to this since it was announced in Sept. It was a great time, though the 2 1/2 hour tour on Saturday evening, much spent outside in the 40 degree, drizzly night, was a bit long. As I write this, Suzanne and Kyle are in South Carolina as Suzanne had a business trip to a conference only 20 minutes from her parents. We don’t have any other big events planned for the time, but I’m sure something will come up.

At Kyle's birthday

At Kyle’s birthday

At Kyle's birthday

At Kyle’s birthday

At Kyle's birthday

At Kyle’s birthday

On the USS New Jersey

The USS New Jersey at night

On the USS New Jersey

On the USS New Jersey

On the USS New Jersey

On the USS New Jersey

On the USS New Jersey

On the USS New Jersey ? Taken by Kyle

On the USS New Jersey

On the USS New Jersey

Kyle and the USS NJ

Kyle and the USS NJ

Kyle’s Pinewood Derby Car

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Kyle and I managed to make a halfway decent looking car for the Pinewood Derby. It’s far from perfect (in fact, it’s a bit asymmetric as the saw blade was flexing as I cut the main shape), but it could be worse. The race is this weekend, so we’ll see how it goes.