Back to Boston (you’re my home) for Thanksgiving.

A trip to their Children’s Museum, some walking around the city (the North End and Chinatown), a Bruins game, the Museum of Fine Arts, and a ridiculous 6hr drive home in nasty rain and post-holiday traffic (for what is ordinarily a 3½hr ride).

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We began Jake’s 14th month with another hike in Harriman State Park (this time starting, after a lengthy, and ultimately fruitless search for the Suffern-Bear Mountain trailhead, from Kakiat County Park and walking to Grandma & Grandpa Rocks).

On the November 1st, we watched the NYC Marathon from our favorite spot just past mile 20, where the runners come back into Manhattan over the Madison Ave Bridge.

On November 4th, we celebrated America’s return to sanity.

Later in November, Jake’s aunt came to town and she and Dorota took Jake to the Children’s Museum.

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Click the picture for more from Jakob’s Halloween. First, a party with friends. Next, the neighborhood Halloween parade — there must’ve been a thousand people in the parade, families with children (most under 4yrs old, I’d guess – a real baby boom here in NYC).

Once again, laziness got the better of me and it’s been a while since I posted. So in rapid succession, you’ll be getting Jake’s 13th & 14th months, along with pictures from Halloween & Thanksgiving.

Here he’s modeling a lovely candy corn hat knitted by Dorota.

During month 13, Jake: went from 0-to-60 when it comes to walking — toddling from furniture to furniture and along walls quickly became toddling-and-falling in open ground which quickly became zooming around anywhere he could get to; went to the Medieval Festival in Fort Tryon Park; climbed the High Bridge Tower and Little Red Lighthouse during Open House New York; visited the Revolutionary War encampment in Palisades Park; and went pumpkin and apple picking upstate.

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