Gavin Sits!

We shall declare June 29th, 2008 the day that Gavin sat. He is now a pretty good sitter. He'll sit and play with toys or, as always, watch his brother. He still hasn't rolled over at all, but he's getting closer.

Jacob finished a 2-week summer preschool sampler last week. The only comment I got from his teacher was that he is very enthusiastic. He has the same teacher this fall when he starts going to preschool three days a week. They had lots of fun going on "hunts" to find different shapes, colors and textures. They did lots of crafts, or tried to get them to do crafts - Jacob's one art piece contained a plain piece of cardboard with one plain wood block on it. They also sang lots of songs and one day Jacob got to be the song helper, perfect for him.

Next week Jacob starts swimming lessons. We've been at the splash pad a few times this summer and he seems eager to be a swimmer, going underwater, blowing bubbles and all sorts of things.

We had another fun weekend in Melrose. We went to our sister-in-law Mary's 40th birthday party on Friday night, surprise! Then we took in the parade and fireworks in Melrose on Saturday. I also got to play Bingo for a couple hours and finally won the last game. On Sunday we had Maddie and Isaac's birthday party, we all had a good time there and all the kids were so good.

We are heading up to Melrose again on Thursday and we are just going to bum around and enjoy the lake. It looks like the weather is going to cooperate with our plans, yeah!