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First week of August!

I can't believe it's August! We had another week of adventures around this amazing city. We're getting much braver with the weather - still raining almost daily but it's usually brief and now we are prepared when we venture out. Half the people say this summer is especially bad and the other half say "welcome to Dutch summer". Here's our week in pictures...

We have the greatest neighbors - Mascha and Jonas are the parents, and their daughter Tess is 12 and babysits for us occasionally, and David who is 3 days younger than Finn. Tess speaks a bit of English, David speaks none but he and Finn have bonded over tennis in the street and Pokemon Go. 

We went to Artis, the Amsterdam Zoo, on Tuesday. It rivals San Diego - it was amazing and full of beautiful parks and cafes. Found this sign along the way and of course my superhero lover wanted a pic. 

I think I have this same picture of E at the Denver Zoo.

Visiting with the giraffes.

Bros playing Minecraft. We've either been on serious adventures or they're on the iPad, not much in between!

The neighbors got a drum set. Guess who loved it?

Flying through the Wimpy Kid books this summer!

We went to the Tropen Museum today. The whole first floor is for kids and they totally loved it. They had these huge mosaic tiles in the entry which we played with for awhile. 

Pretty much built for this kid.

They also got to make their own mosaic tile and bring it home.

I'm learning the kids are capable of more than I've been giving them. Finn will do anything for a euro so helped with dinner tonight. 

And clean up. I will never have to worry about the dishwasher being loaded correctly with this kid - perfect amount of space between each plate and all silverware facing up. That's my boy! 

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