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.