Well, the blogging has been largely deficient for the last month, but there is no time like the present to jump in there and try to get back on track. I won't try to fill in any of the blanks from the last month, so you'll just have to make due with news from the weekend.
As most of you are probably aware, it's been pretty hot here in SoCal. We spent much of the weekend trying to plot ways to stay cool. That included eating out a couple of times (that is getting to be a much more fun family activity as the kids now enjoy it too). We went to the movies on Sunday afternoon with Youndy and Andrew (to see Ratatoiulle). That was Timmy's first movie. He did okay for the first 40 minutes or so, but then got a bit bored. The movie was very good, but I think the kitchen in a restaurant and the politics there is a few steps past Tim's attention level! Emma liked it though. In and around those things there was church (with Timmy and Emma both being "promoted" to the next class up). Emma was very excited since several of her friends (like Macy and Maddi) are already in the "upstairs" class. The several days before church all she could talk about was "going upstairs". Emma and I also took a shopping trip to Target to get her some shoes and a first day of school out fit. She loves shopping, and especially trying on clothes and I enjoy taking her and helping her find cute things to wear. She gets so excited in the changing room, dancing around in front of the mirror and turning around. I have to calm her down so that I can get a look and determine if the stuff actually fits! We ended up getting some cute shoes and a skirt and t-shirt that she put on the moment we got home and didn't take off for the next two days! We ended up taking another trip to Target (in large part to cool off) to get end of summer swim suits on sale (one for now, one for next year). We did that yesterday afternoon and went over to Pat and Sandee's for dinner immediately after ... which meant that Emma had to go swimming in the jacuzzi at 7 am this morning! Yesterday morning (Labor Day) we went to the beach at 9 am. It was already very full and the whole time we were there (2 1/2 hours or so), there were more and more people just piling in. We all had a really good time. It was pretty cool, and we spent the whole time at the water's edge, first making a series of sand castles, and then a bath tub!
The big break through for Timmy is that he seems set to start pooping in the toilet ... yeah Timmy! That would be great if he were to do so!
Friday evening was when the class assignments were posted for kindergarten. Cyndie went over after the kids went to bed and Emma wasn't on the list! It turns out that she doesn't have all the right shots yet. We thought that was very strange (and kind of negligent) that the school didn't let us know that. Oh well, things turned out okay in the end as Cyndie went over right when they opened today and got things straightened out. Emma knows 5 or 6 of the kids in her class (including Arianna across the street and Mavric from church). Cyndie and the kids scootered over there today to look around. It's about a 20 minute ride.
I'm working from home today, and it is noticibly cooler, although still pretty warm. I think the weather said something about thunderstorms to cool things off later this week. We could use both the rain and the cooler weather.
That's about it on our front. We took a bunch of pix off the camera a few days ago, so I'll try to post some soon.
Neal
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