Snip Snip Here, Snip Snip There

Caroline had her first professional "snip, snip" at the hair salon recently, and she definitely did not want to say a couple of "tra la las" or laugh the day away as in the merry old land of Oz. She seemed rather mortified by the whole experience, even though it was our neighbor Heather who cut her hair, and we have the evidence here on film.
After mommy held her through the whole trauma, she was ready to get out of that chair and go to daddy for a little comfort immediately afterward. And then she had to go outside to wind down, although we absolutely promise you that the cigarettes on the ground at her feet did not come from her! Maybe it will be fun to show her these pictures one day if she turns out to be a hair diva!Speaking of getting cut, one person who has never been cut--by a sports team, that is--is our friend Tarik Glenn, recently retired from the Indianapolis Colts as a Super Bowl XLI champion and three-time All-Pro. We wanted to devote a little space to thank Tarik for taking a couple of days away from his family to visit us here and to speak to our student body at John Brown. Tarik has founded an inner-city outreach to children in Indianapolis, which we are glad to advertise for him; you can learn all about it at his charity's web site, http://www.dreamaliveinc.org/.

It's Summer Time, and the Living is Easy

The composer George Gershwin wrote a line for the musical "Porgy and Bess" which goes, "It's summer time, and the living is easy." Thankfully, that's the way summer has started for us after an eventful spring in which our house was struck by lightning, we had to repair a water pipe leak and some carpet damage it caused, and our dishwasher literally exploded. Caroline is learning to sing and motion along with the cartoon characters she watches on the preschool channel, Noggin, and she has been adding to her repertoire of animal noises at the rate of one about every couple of weeks. This week she was able to answer how a sheep goes, adding to cow, dog, and cat. We're working now on ducks. Although, when Caroline saw some actual ducks recently at the park here in Siloam Springs, she decided that she would take off the other way rather than take the opportunity to practice her duck conversation skills. She decided that she would have much more fun polishing her abilities to slide down slides and run across the park. We're planning now for her second birthday party in a few weeks. At the end of the summer, we have a trip to Waco, Texas, planned to see Galen's two alma maters, Wake Forest and Baylor, play football against each other, and we may take a short day trip or two at some point, but for the most we're simply glad to have a little time off for resting up and enjoying our baby grow.