The summer singing continues!

Greetings!

What a great week...so far!!!

Jonas and Elsa had a great time with their extended family this week. Jonas is pictured fast asleep in the arms of Mari's cousin Amy! Nice work Amy--this does not happen very often:). They played and laughed a lot this week and loved spending time with Amy, Uwe, Quinn and Joy.

After spending much of the first two years of Jonas and Elsa's lives sequestered in our house to avoid any aliments, we have tried to make up for it this summer by experiencing anything and everything that might appeal to two and half year olds! We are doing pretty good so far...

This week we found a caterpillar in the backyard that immediately started an interesting battle of wills. Jonas started saying, "Don't touch...don't touch" to Elsa. All the while he was trying to grab the caterpillar with his hands. This inspired Elsa to try to grab the caterpillar even more. Dan intervened and saved the caterpillar from an untimely end. Our kids love finding things and exploring in the backyard! It is so much fun to see.

Our local park hosted a children's entertainer, Eric Ode, this past week too. Mari had his kids in her class many years ago so we were really excited to see him perform. He was great! He brought his guitar and sang for over an hour. Usually at these types of shows, Elsa is waving her hands ten seconds into the first song saying "all done...all done". Not this time. She was hooked and watched, danced, and smiled for the first half an hour or so. When we got home, she immediately wanted to watch his DVD collection of his songs. Two days later, Elsa was still chanting, "ODE...ODE" whenever we ask what music we should play. We love that our kids love music!

Today we are off on another adventure! To the small compact car and away we go go go....

God Bless,
Mari & Dan & Elsa & Jonas

God Bless,