Good Hair Runs in the Family!

Here is Piper and Cousin Andy (aka Andy-roo and D.D.). Clearly the crazy hair comes from the Scanlan side...

 Don't worry Andy, if you are ever having a bad hair day, you can throw a doll sweater on your head, it makes an awesome hat!

We Picked Up Maggie Today - Hooray!

I got the first hug, Piper took the rest!

A Rainy Week Around Here

If Piper could speak in complete sentences, she'd be saying, "I just can't take another book, the 800th round of Brown Bear, Brown What Do You See did me in."

 I am not too proud to say that Seamus learned to read by playing with Football Cards. Here he is organizing them by their positions. After that, we sorted by team... what will be next.

Finally Went Fishing!

We have only received three letters from Maggie at camp... two of them were fill in the blanks! A common thread in all of them was that Maggie still had not been fishing. Well here is our little angler, I am thinking it was not as exciting as she anticipated - we'll see if it is in the next letter.

Two Weeks

So, Maggie has been gone for two weeks and I am very ready to have her home! I can feel her hugs when I close my eyes... she is all arms and legs :O) and I can smell her in her room... I opened the top drawer of her dresser while I was putting some laundry away to find all of her trinkets lined up and neatly organized. That is Maggie, all of her ducks are in a row! I talked to Barbara on the second day of camp, she had gone to Maggie's cabin the night before to help Maggie unpack and get settled in with her cabinmates.She of course found Maggie completely unpacked with her bunk made and she had already made three more beds. I think her homesickness has been kept at bay by her need to take care of everyone else. The reports from camp continue to report a very happy girl!

Seamus and I went for a walk last week and while we were walking towards the house, he quietly took my hand and said, "I miss Maggie." It had only been six days and Seamus was done. We have planned a lot of adventures and kept him busy, but he is a homebody who wants everyone at home. He is easily distracted with fishing trips and his new skateboard, but he doesn't want to sleep without Maggie in their room. It will be interesting to see if his "play it cool" side wins out or his "i love Maggie" side wins when we pick her up... I will keep you posted.

I am going to try hard to get a video of Pip looking at pics of Maggie for you all to see. She giggles, belly laughs and claps... you can't help but smile. Tim and I continue to wait for mail... let us know if you hear from her - we never expected her to be a big letter writer, but we dare to dream!

Not A Very Scary Tiger

Pip and Shim

Piper gets her first bike (which she loves) and Seamy loses two teeth in as many days...

big stuff happening around here!

 Please note all of the teeth...

 And now they are gone.