Let me tell you—when the kids become fully autonomous and self-entertaining, beach with other families is great.

dad

It’s pretty amazing that we’ve never visited Park Avenue during the Summer Streets weekends. If you are a New Yorker and ride a bike, there’s something pretty magical about being able to ride around the Met Life building and stare Cornelius Vanderbilt right in the mug. We must have ridden nearly twenty miles just going back and forth this weekend—it’s fantastic.

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This is the correct analysis.

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It’s a really brightly-colored lair for a spy, in my opinion, but I digress.

dad

It is always actually a comment.

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This is a ticket you can believe in.

dad

I remember feeling this way when I was Kina’s age, and whenever I stumbled on something that made the adults laugh, I’d try to figure out why by just doing the same thing over and over until they stopped laughing. Now Kina does the same thing, and I honestly can’t explain why I think anything is funny, and I wish I could remember what was so funny about being a kid. dad

It was a great trip, this last weekend. But wouldn’t it be nice to have a day at Coney Island? That’s what Kina’s brain asked overnight. It sounded like a great extra Sunday.

dad

The last time Kina was in Philly, she was four years old. She didn’t know about the tacos and the stuffies and the sleepovers. We will have to go back again sometime before three years from now, if only so she can make good on the three hours of extra sleepover she didn’t get.

dad

The key to keeping secrets is to force yourself to forget you have any, apparently.

dad

To be honest, I was there when she asked it, and it still barely makes sense.

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I didn’t hang this one up in the kitchen because I didn’t want Kina to know that the beef in the pie was tongue. Packs a punch! dad

I write to you this rainy evening, annoying but lovable.

dad

No gummy is worth an hour long tantrum, unless the gummy is a sense of grief about the end of family vacation.

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The city’s not so bad.

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The end of a trip, three days later. Still sand in her shoes.
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I have never seen somebody so proud of herself.
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She’s gone full rock.
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Mommy is not known for driving, so this was a major accomplishment in Kina’s eyes. dad