Hey June...

Slow down please, you are moving too fast.

We have been enjoying the summer so far, three weeks away now from the last day of school. These long days are pretty easy for me. The kids, mostly, keep themselves busy and entertained. We have been spending lots of time in the blow up pools, making paper airplanes, taking trips to the library and to swim lessons, setting up tents in the backyard, and eating outside on the weekends.

Some other fun things that I have observed in the throws of this summer:

My kids have made up a game called "dumpy shark." It basically involves putting your hands on top of your head, like if you were a shark, and chasing other people while you proclaim yourself a dumpy shark. If the dumpy shark touches you, you become a dumpy shark and you continue on until everyone is a dumpy shark. I just like saying dumpy shark.

Reese's Pieces are just as good as I remember.

Paper airplanes are cool, and serve to occupy the kids for hours [the first time you roll them out.]

I'm getting used to people asking me if Sarah and Wyatt are twins, he's on a bit of a growth spurt.

Using an empty toilet paper tube for a straw was not Wyatt's best idea.

I look forward to bedtime just to hear Wyatt say "I love you more than I love you."

Concerning the weeds in the garden, the kids aren't pulling their fair share.

In just under 8 weeks, I will have three children in school. What will that be like?

In just a few days, I will have a ten year-old child.

And another funny story about my son. Wyatt and Sarah were sitting in the tree. Wyatt is a wild child and can climb up or down anything, but Sarah is afraid to get down. Wyatt offered to show her how to get down by asking her, "Do ya want me ta show ya the easy way or the hard way?" Of course she answers the easy way and to that Wyatt responds, "the easy way is hard." Then he proceeds to show her the 'easy way.' That. Cracked. Us. Up.

Don't you love that? The easy way is hard. That is the secret to life right there and he nailed it. Too funny. Peace and love.