Lord, That I May See

1.  The girls are often commenting on Sparky's "fake crying" act.  He hates it.  One day he is crying and carrying on about something, and then stops suddenly, turns to me and says in a completely normal voice, "Mom, I'm real  crying."  Then he starts crying again. 2.  Sunshine:  I don't like wet kisses.  I wipe them off.  I mean, well, I try not to wipe them off.   I know they are for love, but . . . I don't really like them. 3.   When Rosebud cut her foot open and we were waiting for the doctor to numb her foot before the stitches, D. was trying to persuade her to let him take a picture of her wound on his phone.  She would cry at the suggestion and shake her head vehemently.  The other day she told him, "Sorry I didn't let you take a picture of my foot, Daddy.  I was just kind of out of my mind." 4.   Last week D. found a robin's nest in a small tree in our back yard.  There we...

We spent a week at the Bay House  this summer!  It is pretty near a perfect vacation spot for doing all the different things that we love.  We were blessed to be there and to have a great Pop-Pop and Nana to make it possible! Unfortunately, we were unable to get the motor on the boat to work, though the men tried!  So, the tubing and cruising that we looked forward to with that didn't happen. Cousin B. and Sparky had time to become better friends, and of course we re-staged the cute  picture we took last year .  Turtle was old enough to drive the golf cart this year, much to her pride and delight. Rosebud had an injury the very first day on the piles of rocks in the bay when an oyster shell (we think) sliced her ankle almost to the bone.  We were worried about nearby artery and tendon damage but thankfully, there wasn't any.  She had to get six stitches in what was our family's first trip to the emerge...

They grew!