Fixed.

It took awhile, but I am finally able to use my keyboard again!! YAYAYA>>>

It's been busy summer. Lots of two- or three-day trips to the beach or friends' places. Lots of outings with Penny and her little friends. Lots more actual days of work than I intended when the summer began.

Even so, it has been a great summer. Penny has grown so much - now I look at pictures of her as soon as I take them and can't believe that it is the same girl. She looks so...grown up. I can see the girl - and woman - that she will be sometimes. Even though she is still thin and underweight for her age, her face has lost that baby look and filled out to resemble her Daddy (and maybe me, a bit, if you squint). We are finally getting a broader vocabulary and stringing together three or four words to make sentences which make me forget my own grammar. I DO READ! I DO COOK! I PICK CAT UP DOWN AAAAHHHHHH!

Penny adores swimming, but has gotten out of the swing of swim classes since for most of the summer we have been away or I was working, so she didn't get to go. Yesterday, she screamed through most of the class - making her teacher-mommy flush red with each new pitch. Ah well...we will get back in the swing soon.

As for the fall...we are still holding off on preschool. I know she would benefit from a class setting where she is forced to participate...but I still want her with me. I also don't want to take away from her time with Gigi & Jopop. Those two or even three days a week - and maybe some nights too - are so important. She adores them. They adore her. She treats their new puppy Sadie like a baby, and the puppy even seems to like it. Sitting still in a circle will come - each day she gets to spend with her great-grandparents is something she will treasure for the rest of her life.