Summer

We like the things that summer brings.
It brings the sun. It brings the heat. It brings the things we like to eat.
We like cold things. We eat them up. And when we eat, so does our pup.
Summer brings so many things. Summer brings us rides on swings! We swing up high into the trees. We swing so fast we make a breeze.
Summer brings us things with wings! We like to catch them with and see how many we can get.
Summer sun brings garden fun. We have to water well we know, to make our garden grow and grow. You water me. I water you. And that will make us grow fast, too!
In summertime we say hello to all the fish way down below. They look at us. They seem to say, "what kind of fish have come our way?"
We like this way to spend a day. We make a sand house on the shore. We make some windows and a door. Then waves come up. They come up fast. Sometimes our sand house does not last.
Some summer nights we cook and eat. Our pup is not so very neat.
We like the thing that summer brings. It brings us fireworks late at night, all red and  yellow, blue and white. 
We stay awake and think of things... the happy things that summer brings!
(Summer by Alice Low)
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We have been having a fun, busy summer. I have not been taking my camera out much to document the fun, but here are a few things we have been up to the last few weeks:
-an overnight visit with Papa Loren and Grandma Karen
 then on to Papa Wally and Grandma Ellie's house for time with cousins
while Matt hiked Glacier Peak
-fun at the local wading pool
-fun with friends:
      -my college friend Arielle came with her sweet almost one year old James
      -our college friends Jeannette & Brian came up from CA for a wedding & stayed a few nights with us
      -Carkeek park with "Auntie" Katie, Blaise, Evy & Rhett
      -PEPS playdates at Bitter Lake Park
      -pool party in our yard with our neighbor friends Catherine, Maddy & Owen
      -playdate with baby Maya (not to be confused with the also popular doggy Maya)

In other news we have (finally) found renters for our basement and we are looking forward to building relationships with them.