Time with our Northwest Family

We had some wonderful visits at Nana and Papa's house this weekend from Brenda, Thihan and Zarni, as well as from Cindy (Kathy and Brenda's cousin) and her son Cody. Cody is playing on the Freshman football team this year as a lineman and he is great with kids. I wish he lived in Nashville so that he could babysit! Great Grandma Louise turned 94 this June. She get regular AM kisses from Jacob. Here she is getting a kiss from baby Casey while Nana Panush holds her.

Beach Babies

Every day that we are at Nana and Papa's house we go to the beach. It's a little cooler this time of year, so we don't get our feet wet, but we do throw rocks and sticks in the water. Casey came on this trip, but she was a little bit tired, so she just snuggled up to Nana Panush.

Sylvan Park Celebrities

On August 7th, in Nashville's Sylvan Park, our family participated in a "National Night Out Against Crime." Though we didn't think it would bring our stolen car stereo back we walked a few blocks from our house to a hot dog cookout with some live music. It was a hot night, in the mid-90s, so we didn't stay long. But a photographer for the local paper took this picture of Josh and Casey. It appeared a few weeks later in the weekly circular that comes to our house.

Getting Dirty

This week we're in the Pacific Northwest in a town called Port Hadlock on the Olympic Penninsula. On Wednesday Jacob played in the dirt while Papa Larry raked dirt in front of the deck so that he can plant a new lawn. Nana Panush fed baby Casey her first taste of rice cereal. She liked the taste, but it might take her awhile to get the hang of swallowing it!

The vocabulary of Star Wars

About 10 days ago I gave Jacob a black tray, some glue, and some popsicle sticks that I had been saving. I thought he might make a 3-dimensional sculpture. He put the sticks in the tray and then covered them completely with Elmer's glue. At first he said they were cookies, and that he was covering them with frosting. But then he said they were frozen. Frozen? I asked. Yes, he said. "Frozen in carbonite." For all of you Star Wars lovers out there, you know that Han Solo is frozen in carbonite at the end of The Empire Strikes Back. Pretty big word, I thought!