Ahhh, summer!

Travis, Emily and I are all fighting a weird cold. It involves eye boogers, a sore throat, some coughing, mild fever, and a headache. Well, I guess I can't say if Emily has a headache or not, but considering she's been inconsolably cranky at times, I'm assuming she does. And it's too bad, because it's finally time for summer fun! We were going to go camping and canoeing this weekend, but it's just too stressful with a sick infant (and sick parents!). Next weekend is our trip to Minnesota, so hopefully by then we are well and ready to have a good time!

Emily is getting darned close to crawling. Last weekend, we were taunting her with the remote, because it's her favorite forbidden thing, and putting it just out of reach to motivate her to get going. She's plenty motivated now, and getting better at going from sitting to crawling position. If you hold her knees underneath her, she rocks back and forth, though she can't quite get to that position herself. She loves it, though; that, and when you move her hands and knees so she actually goes forward. It's so fun to see her delighted. That's definitely my favorite part of parenting - seeing her excited and happy.

I'm going to be using a lot of vacation in the next year. As a full-time employee with 7 years of service, I get 17 days, so you'd expect that I'd get 8.5 as a part-time, right? Well, it's given out based on what I worked last year, which was nearly all fulltime, so I get 14 days! That's over 5 weeks of part-time work! So, I'm taking Monday afternoon off and still sending Emily to Amanda's because we're paying for that anyway, and this way I can have some time to get real stuff done around the house. It's an awesome situation. Emily really has a good time at Amanda's - whenever I pick her up she's smiley and happy and always looking to see what the big kids are doing, and I couldn't give her that at home so that makes me feel really good.

We think we got nearly 5" of rain Thursday night. there was a huge line of storms that came through, and apparently the tornado sirens went off but I didn't wake up to hear them. The weather we've had this year is insane! We've lost one tree branch but other than that have been very lucky to have only the "usual" amount of water in our basement (so stupid). I don't know when we'll fix that - probably when we run completely out of room down there to store things!