Eleanor on her field trip to Spring Brook
Hanging out with Mr. Shawn.  :D

Edith races the stroller down the ramp "experimenting"

Brother and sister, they love each other.  For now anyway.  ;) 
We all took a walk today and landed at Dawns house where Edith raced the stroller down the ramp repeatedly.  It was her experiment to see where it would land.  We all had fun. 

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Teddy bear and Edith playing. 

Spending some evenings at the lake.  Life is good.   :-D

locks of love

A few months ago we cut Eleanor's hair and donated it to locks of love.  This cam for her in the mail today.  It's the confirmation that they received her hair.  It's very sweet.

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before the cut

the cut

new short hair

So here is a story with an amazing outcome.
Edith and I went to the lake for a swim on Sunday afternoon.  On our way back we stopped by the frog pond to see if we could catch a glimpse of a big old bullfrog or something.  There were lots of beautiful blue dragon flies but not many frogs.  Anyway, I was taking pictures with my phone.  Edith kept saying "Don't hang over the edge you're gonna drop your phone".  Well I said "yeah I know you're probably right."  Wouldn't you know it I see a frog as we are leaving, lean over to take a picture and ploop right into the mucky green film of the the pond.  I had just recently upgraded too.  :(  I instantly spewed out at least 4 vulgar word and  quickly prepped myself for putting my hand into the green unknown of the water in hopes of retrieving the thing. I was able to find it pretty quickly considering I couldn't see anything through the green.  I popped the battery out.  It wasn't my first instinct so I was losing hope of ever using it again.  I brought it home, put it in a bag of rice and crossed my fingers.  The next day I turned it on.  It started up but the screen was all wrong and it wasn't responding to my touch and when the screen timed out I had to hold the power key down to restart it because it wouldn't come back on.  I charged it for a while and then put it back in the rice.  Each day it continues to mend itself.  Today the only trouble I had with it was moisture on the inside of the camera lens.  And now that's cleared up too.  I am so immensely relieved!!!!!!!!!!!!!   AND Lucky!!!!!!!!!!!!!  

I've got my first hydrangea blossoms.

We had a full day yesterday with 4th of July celebrations at Gramma Rose and Papa Harry's house.  Stacy and Pat brought fireworks and the pool was open so there was lots of swimming.  Even Joe, Ted and Eleanor got in the pool.  Edith and Dakotah had so much fun together!

Uncle Ryan held Ted for a few minutes on the porch at Gramis' house. 

Today Eleanor starts her summer school classes.   :-)