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6/29/10

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 01:54:29 +0100

Today, when we were being active outside, Daddy brought out a rocket that you can shoot with your finger. Of course, within 10 minutes, Daddy managed to get it stuck in a tree, a good 30 feet above our heads! The effort to get it out was both intense and amusing! Daddy and Ben aimed with the football and Caitlin and I (Lindsey) tried our best, much to our family’s amusement to kick the soccerball into the tree. Well, I can kick a ball pretty high, as long as the target is the exact opposite of where it looks as if I would intend it to go. In other words, I had to turn completely around in order to getting anywhere close to the rocket stuck in the tree. Eventually we got it out after about an hour that night and 15 minutes the next morning!

6/28/10

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 01:53:13 +0100

We have turned out to be a very easily entertained family, well at least Caitlin is … this morning, as Caitlin was helping Lindsey and Abby make their bed over the cab, she sat up straight up, which surprised her because of her tall torso! Then she found her head in a sun roofish window on the ceiling! She turned her head from side to side and she was instantly entranced by the swishy noise her hair made against the screen! We really do love you, Caitlin!

6/27/10: Laughter in Lithia Park

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 01:51:51 +0100

Today was the first time that we set up our handy dandy shade structure with mosquito netting. We were planning to read Hamlet for about a half hour under the shade because of the annoyingly excessive number of mosquitoes. We were expecting the setting up of the tent to take 5 minutes or less … We were all eaten alive during the thirty minutes that it took us to just set it up! The rods were color coordinated with the pockets on the tent, this excessively excited Caitlin, the OCD person of the family (or CDO person, so that it is in alphabetical order). But, our more organizationally challenged men of the family couldn’t quite figure it out! But our little friend, the tent, turned out to serve us well by protecting us during our also very interesting dinner! The outside temperature, being in the 100’s that afternoon had caused us to use the AC a lot and somehow made our microwave not work at all. (It is now working of course). Therefore, we could not microwave our frozen vegetables and my very intelligent mother put together a one-dish meal, by combining the frozen veggies with our spaghetti, and now we’ve learned our lesson!