No news isn't always good news

We're still waiting to hear from the company Peter interviewed with several weeks ago, but since they've failed to return his calls, we fear the worst. Please continue to keep us (Peter in particular) in your prayers!

Aside from having no money, we've been having a wonderful summer - a few weeks ago, we had the pleasure of keeping our nieces Emily and Elyssa while their parents moved into their new rental home. Emmy had a ball playing with them in her little inflatable pool, and Peter and I got creative and made little doll houses and furniture out of cardboard boxes, wood and fabric bits, etc. We may have had more fun than the kids did!

A couple weeks ago we joined our dear friends Tom & Debbie Saknit for a Sabbath afternoon jaunt to San Diego. We spent the afternoon admiring the ocean view at Shelter Island and paid an evening visit to the zoo, which was loads of fun. Emmy especially loved playing in the park at Shelter Island and seeing the elephants, bears and hippo at the zoo. Since we arrived at dusk, a lot of the animals were already asleep by the time we got around to their exhibits - but it was fun to feel like we had the place to ourselves!

Last weekend Emmy and Peter went attended Jamie Wallace's birthday party at Brookside Park in Redlands. Emmy enjoyed swinging on the swings, eating cake, wearing her birthday hat and admiring the balloon ladybug given to her by the balloon artist at the party.

Emmy has been growing insanely fast - she's getting longer and leaner and looks less and less like a baby and more like a little girl. She's very imaginative, interacting animatedly with her stuffed animals and dolls, and reenacting scenes from her favorite television shows, Go Baby and Little Einsteins. She is quite the little mimic these days, and has mastered the phrase "Oh my, YES!" uttered by the Go Baby narrator with the same high-pitched tone and ecstatic inflection. A new favorite activity is getting on the couch and burying herself in cushions until only her head is sticking out of the top of the pile.

She's saying TONS of new words every day now - we can't keep up. She imitates nearly everything she hears, with no prompting necessary. Singing and doing motions is a blast for her and for us - her giggles are truly infectious. It's an exciting time, and we're more smitten than ever.