Back Yard

Scenes from the back yard.  The kids are loving it.

We still go to playgrounds and parks of course, but as we expected they feel quite different from New York.

On any given day in NYC, a huge percentage of the kids' friends are at the playground and in the park.

You don't need a play date -- you just show up and your friends are there.

Here, we are lucky to see a total of four other kids at the local playground (and, at this point anyway, they are all strangers). 

Bottom picture:  Silas and Rosemary are in a rocket ship, searching for and collecting alien babies from throughout the solar system.