Auntie Jacy is Here!

My baby sister Jacy arrived on July 30 and we are having a blast! It is now a tradition for Jacy to visit us all by herself during the summer for a week or so. This is the fourth summer that she has made the journey all by her lonesome. Now she is 17; I wonder how much longer she will be interested in spending part of her summer with a couple of old married folks and her little niece?:

Auntie Jacy has arrived!

Kate, Mike and Milly joined us for pool fun and dinner on

Saturday; Milly LOVES the water!

Emmeline prefers to stay out of the water.  She likes

to take water out of the pool and pour it into cups

and bowls.  I hope she grows out of her fear of water

soon.  She won't even let us wash her hair in the tub.

Jacy feeds Milly a bottle.  I can't believe how long it

has been since anyone fed Emmmeline a bottle.  My, how

time flies...

Emmeline gets to feed Milly again.  Open wide!

Emmeline and her friend Elisa at Bellevue park on

Sunday.  Another fun night of free music!

Emmeline concentrates on Jacy's feet as Jacy explains

how to jump off a cement block.

Oh!  That was fun!

Swinging like a monkey on the top of the slide as

daddy anxiously polices the situation from behind.

Choo-choo, cha buggy!  Maybe Central High's yearbook could

use another picture or two?  This would be a good one...

Emmeline saw this stone wall and said: Humpty

Dumpty sat on the wall?!

Emmeline Louise and Jacy Kaitlyn

Us girls

This morning: eating a peach in pigtails.  The pigtails lasted

about ten more minutes.  I can't even describe how cute

Emmeline is in pigtails, barrettes and clips but you will

hardly ever see pictures of her in them.  She gets pretty

frustrated with them and I get equally frustrated as she pulls

them out.  Her bangs then hang over her eyes and I want to

scream!  Arg!

Playing in the sand at Rehoboth Beach this afternoon.

Notice the Dora Band-Aids on her knees, compliments

of tripping yesterday during our walk.  She is such a little

tomboy!  Scruffy, scrappy, and no patience for fluff! And, no,

she did not get in the ocean. Not even close.

Auntie Jacy and Emmy Lou; so happy to be together!

Yummy little toddler.

Diggin' with daddy.

Working hard.

Ice cream!

Pure contentment.

Another annual tradition: burying Jacy in the sand.

Emmeline was very worried about poor Jacy under

all that sand.

But was reassured as Jacy continued to smile throughout

the burying process.  (If you can't tell, this is one of Paul's

favorite traditions, too!)

Kiss, kiss!