Summer's Here

Here at last, here at last--Summertime is here at last!

Limbo

Miranda (representing "team yellow") does the limbo at sports day.  Individual competition is frowned upon these days at educational institutions for children, and even the fact that the yellow team got the most points was downplayed at our local community school.  I tried to explain to her that when I was her age, "Track and Field" was a competitive event where someone got first place, someone got second, and someone got third.  No one else got a ribbon.  "But Mom," she said, "that would mean that only the biggest, strongest, and fastest kids won!"  Crazy, huh?  How low can you go?

Father's Day Art by Miranda

Happy Father's Day 2012 to a wonderful husband and father, Steve "Daddy" Forster!

Puppies

I'm so happy when they play together, even if it brings out their animal nature...The girls are pretending to be puppy dogs as they slurp (pretend!) water from a bowl atop their teddy-bear footstool on the living-room floor.  I try to teach them good manners, but there's only so much a mother can do!  You should hear them yelping when they don't get their way!  At least one of them is housetrained... Isn't it nice to think that the older one is serving as a role model for the little one?  The truth is they both can't wait to get a pet pup when we move back to our "real" house and property someday. Woof!