Ah! Grandchildren

Our visit with the Morgans the last few days gave us lots of fun opportunities to connect with our grandchildren. Claire had a presentation on historic Charleston architecture along with other members of her SAIL class and she also participated in a fifth grade talent show later that evening.

Each student studied and made a 'to scale' model of an historic building after taking the actual measurements from the building downtown. Claire chose the Pink House.

Claire taught herself Minuet in G from one of Gray's old piano books. Perhaps we have a budding muscian in the family.


Friday, after much loading of gear and restraining of children, we headed to the Isle of Palms for a day at the beach. We like to use the county park there with its excellent facilities, parking and umbrella rentals. Unfortunately, the umbrella/chair rental company hadn't set up business for the summer yet. With Collier in tow we came up with an alternate method of keeping him sunburn-free.

There's a baby under all that toweling.

Saturday morning we packed the kids up once more and visited the Marion Square Farmers' Market for a morning of strolling through the vendor booths of fresh veggies, cooked treats, herbs, art and jewelry. It was kick-off Saturday for the Spoleto Festival so there were more vendors than usual and tons of people. Families with small children were in abundance and Hamilton loved the jump castle, one of several on site. The sun was bright but there was adequate shade for relaxing on a blanket and feeding wee Collier.

Though I'm not much of a photographer, I was able to capture a couple of cute photos of Collier smiling.

Travis urged us to stop by his place in Columbia on our way home ( I think he really wanted to see Hamilton more than us) and we enjoyed having supper downtown at Jason's Deli where there's complimentary ice cream at the end of every meal. Hamilton enjoyed his cone-the first, I think, for him- more than I can describe. We laughed 'til our sides hurt trying to get him to understand that he could bite the cone and eat it too!