Friendship

Squeaker is getting used to being away from her friends at our old house, but they have been keeping the US Postal Service going with letters and drawings headed back and forth up the road. Those friends who she's known her whole life have graced these pages often. Hopefully she will always know where to find them.

What I find interesting too, are a couple friends she has who live around 500 and 10000 miles away, who she has only spent time with a handful of times, but spends months wanting to play with again, despite oceans of obstacles.

Enjoy the week.

Baseball

Squeaker and the Daddy person went to another baseball game this weekend. At least part of my motivation was to makeup for having missed fireworks on the 4th (she got eaten by bugs on the 3rd), but mainly I was hoping by getting seats close to the action, I might interest her more in the game. I succeeded in getting us close, but mostly she seemed to be interested in kettle corn and the kids nearby. She did enjoy calculating the number of outs left each inning and the number of innings left in the game. However, even the promise of fireworks couldn't keep us past the 7th inning.

Given the disaster that had been parking at the game, the Daddy person didn't mind leaving ahead of everyone else. Besides, we don't want to sour her on our game. On the plus side, she asked a number of times if we could go to a basketball game again.

Remember to Smile

No, I didn't tell her to smile for the camera this time. I don't think she'd have heard me anyway.




Instead, I offer that as advice for our readers, many whom will probably find that hard to do this weekend.

Flower Girl

Just as we, the editors of squeakerpants.com, would prefer that Squeaker still refers to herself as a flowerpot (we feel the same way about her love of pwimming).

Summer is still treating us well. She's finished her first round of swimming lessons and the change is amazing. At the start of her lessons she was nervous about leaving the stairs without wearing her floaty or being held. By the end of her lessons, she was enjoying diving to the bottom to pull the Daddy person's goggles off his head. She does still get a little nervous jumping into the water. We will try and get some footage of her external-internal monologue before jumping into the water. Watching her overcome her nervousness is priceless.

Back to the pool everyone!