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Bring on summer

We waited and waited and now we are enjoying summer like never before.  Daddy is on a new softball team with friends from church...
 we discovered a new place for Meigo to play (at the car wash, of all places) ...
 found a new way to roll down the hill at the drainage ditch...
 loved our first swim with friends.

 Danny tried out soccer camp for the first time & won the award for best boy camper along with acquiring the new nickname of "Danimal"...
and these two turned into monsters because of raspberries on their fingers.  lol.

All three of the older children go to Stacey's preschool one morning a week for academia and to give mom only the baby to take care of.  Kaelah is also attending princess camp (dance plus a story & craft) and Danny and Michelle are in separate gymnastics classes now that Danny has moved on to an age group that doesn't need a parent in the gym with him.  My mom has been helping me transport them back and forth and watches K, D, & N while I run around with Michelle during her class.  M loves getting some one on one time, especially now that she has been ousted from being the youngest member of the family.  Thank goodness for Grandma!

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