Hiatus

Sheesh. We apologize to both of our readers for the long wait for a new post. Nothing in particular was keeping us away from the blogosphere. Well I guess two visitor weekends and sweating out child care was part of it. But we are ready to recap the missing 21 days. 21 days later! No wait, 28 is the movie, right? Whatever. Nobody in the household is a zombie, OK? But Kelly did have a birthday . . . on the 21st -- whoa! the numbers are telling us something . . . so we're both now closer to looking like zombies. Kidding. She's as beautiful as the day we met. Speaking of which, here's a photo a friend recently passed along from our youthful college days. I swear that tie is supposed to be a joke. It has to be.

But I know the real draw here. Little Grace! Here's a stunner from early one morning.

I know what you're thinking, and yes, you are correct, she pooped all over it later. Anyway, three weekends ago our ole ("ole" -- not old) pal Megan was in town visiting up the fam in hot, hot July. What a saint. We even hiked on an especially humid day.

But Megan's lasting contribution to the family was cluing (is that spelled right? the blogspot spell checker says so . . . just looks weird) us into Shamus the Sheep's ability to make Grace laugh like a crazy fool. As we captured:

Well done Meg! We've been riding that trick for, well, 21 days now.

Two weekends ago we had an informal gathering of young parents to trade secrets, shoot the bull, and take obligatory cute photos. Such as,

and


Our buddy Jack here is clearly a quick learner. He's already learned to stop short with Grace. Watch it pal!

And it being summer and all we have been taking proper precautions with Gracie to keep her safe from the sun. Including sporting fun hats


and her new shades!


Oh yeah! Looks like she's ready for her first tanning bed. Speaking of bed, it's getting time to hit that bed. Last weekend Papa Bob and Yaya Kathy visited but we'll save that for the next post after we collect their photos. But it won't be 21 days from now. Promise. So, like I said, off to bed.