July already?

Despite the calendar turning to July, the weather has been mild, and we heard a brief excerpt from "The Nutcracker" (written by Mike, if you'll remember) on the radio today. It will be hot and miserable soon enough, though the holiday looks pretty good, if a little wet. Hey, if it keeps me from having to water the plants!

So, what have we been up to since June 22, when I last posted? My memory is short-term tonight, so let's stick with the past weekend. It was very productive, with a little bit of fun thrown in. I won't bore you with the productive part of it (weeding, car washing, garage cleaning, blah blah blah). The fun part was a trip to the Incredible Pizza Company, which was new to us. It's a cross between CiCi's and Chuck E. Cheese's, basically. We went with our friends and their one-year-old daughter. It was good, though a bit high-priced (six dollars for go-karts???), but something different to do. Dominick bowled his first game ever, with some help from Noel, who loves balls. Dom's score was 44. The gutter bumpers were like little fences with widely spaced posts and stopped short of the pins, so they were somewhat useless. Dom was robbed, if you ask me.

Noel amazes me every day with his burgeoning vocabulary. I can't begin to keep track of all his words, but here are a few new ones: soap, cup (meaning gallon of milk), TV ("tee"), pea, pee, poop, horse, belly, nose ("pose"), foot, bird, sock, light, hot, cute, bite, goose, Thomas ("Nah-meh"). I've been trying to teach him animal sounds, but he gets a little mixed up. Me: "What does a dog say?" Noel: "Cow."

In closing, here's another fun fact from Dominick: bees bite your hair to make it shorter. Who knew?