Around the House

     Amy made history tonight. But first....

     Rags is meowing piteously to her now-outside-kittens (Agent May, Drysa, Glory and Licorice), it's so sad to watch. Freckles has been keeping an eye on them pretty well, but it's still hard for her to deal with.

     Captain did another heroic thing this morning: Fighting off and chasing away a coyote.

     Courtney, Caleb and Trevor went to a youth group get-together at the Buckmasters' last night and had a very good time, Courtney then spent the night with Libby while Caleb went to the Coxes' for a sleepover.
They're EXTREMELY EXCITED about camp registration forms being sent out; as are most of their friends. Courtney's also super eager to go back to Mexico in two weeks, and Dad's wondering what that will be like.

     Trevor's burned foot is healing, it's just going slower than he would like.

     This post has a "Sniffing Around the Place" tone to it. Which  wasn't exactly intentional, but it's seemed like it needed to be written, and as Sunny and Copper aren't here...Banjo doesn't have the self-confidence, and Rags is too out-of-sorts to give it a try.

     We were looking at pictures of Sunny recently, me and Amy, and we came across one with her and Sport looking at the camera. Amy points and says, "Sport!' "That's right, that is Sport." I smile, marveling. She lives so much in the present, it's hard to gauge exactly how much of the past is saved as memories. So that was really cool to see.
     We've spent a lot of time together so far this summer; which she loves. I'm like, one of the coolest people to ever walk the face of the planet to her, which is kinda neat. So we've played catch and dollhouse and Hot Wheels and read books and gone on imaginary grocery-shopping and hair-cutting trips(lots of those), and just generally that kind of thing. This morning we were sitting on the couch and she looks at me. "Where you 'tomach go?" Mom laughs and says, "He's just skinny, not as easy to notice as the rest of us."
     And tonight she lost a tooth, so she was the first of any of us to have both front teeth missing at the same time. She handed the tooth to me for safekeeping and proudly marched around showing everyone the new gap.

     Caleb watched The Big Green this afternoon, Trevor's been watching The Lone Ranger and MacGyver. 

     Dad's been busy rebuilding the flatbed trailer, and Mom's been harvesting vegetables from her garden and feeding animals, etc.

     At the moment, Trevor is busy making an elaborate decoy of a stuffed man on the floor. Why? "So that in case a bad guy breaks in, and it's completely dark, he'll think that it's a real person and shoot 'em, and that'll wake us up and then I can spring my trap on him and he'll be knocked out!" The decoy is even wearing shoes and wide-receiver gloves. (This is one of many common Caleb/Trevor occurrences around here, where Courtney or I usually point out the obvious(and to them, irrelevant).plot holes in these schemes. Usually it involves them taking a painstakingly long, detailed process of attacking the intruder and saying strange things while doing this. The villian always says "Oh, you're just kids" and then stands perfectly still and allows them to beat him up and run him away.)
     
     Steven's sermon yesterday on time in general was very good. Ten Ways to Destroy Your Child's Imagination was last week's super-interesting nonfiction read.