I never wrote about our end-of-summer trip yurt camping at the beach.  We went with three other families that all had boys in Evan’s class last year.  All counted, there were 11 children and somewhere between 5-9 adults; as usual I was the token dad for much of the week.  Needless to say it was pretty wild at times.  It’s amazing how easy it is to get your kids to bed when they’ve spent the whole day running and playing outside.  Some nights the boys were literally begging us to take them to bed.

One highlight of the trip was our outdoor movie night.  One of the dads brought his home-theater projector and a mini-DVD player down one night.  We strung up a big white sheet between two trees and weighted the bottom corners to keep it still.  Then we lined up all of our camping chairs and after sunset watched “Happy Feet”.  It was a pretty magical experience.

After that we had a quite week or two before school started.  After a month we are all adjusted to the school schedule.  Davis goes to preschool three mornings a week and really enjoys it.  This year Evan started taking the bus to and from school.  He wasn’t so sure about the idea at first, but he seems to really like it now.