Lindy in the Light

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Well, I'm messing around with the camera a bit (and was trying to get a cute bottom picture). The bottom part didn't work, but I do think Lindy's looking pretty cute here.

Knutson Hall's Last Days

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For those of you who want to know a little about things I care about, you should check out Camp Chippewa. I attended Camp Chippewa as a camper from 1988 - 1990 and as a counselor from 1993-1997. It might be my single favorite place in the world.

I was lucky enough to get to visit camp over the last few days as we celebrated the 70 years that Knutson Hall served as the dining hall for camp. It's time is ending this week, but it will replaced by something even better.

If you ever want to know more about camp, don't hesitate to ask. But make sure you have plenty of time for some stories...

Dadouille

Lindy has arrived at her own nickname for me.

Daddy has morphed into "Dadu", as heard in David Wilcox' song, Radio Men...

And recently, Dadu has morphed into Dadu-ee, not to be confused with Andouille.

Ignore This

I'm just testing a web service called Texty... ignore it...

"Know that..."

Oakley has a stuffed pig (intended for drawing on) that she got for her birthday. For whatever reason, this pig has become important to Lindy. Today, before nap, Lindy wanted to hold it (and the book, and some other stuff).

Jenn: Lindy, isn't that nice of Oakley to share her pig with you?
Lindy: My pig.
Jenn: Lindy, that's Oakley's pig.
Lindy (as if to say, "Duh, Mom"): [I] know that.

Jenn was also telling me that Lindy found my new laptop today. It was sitting on the desk in the office and she walked up to it, and opened it. Well, when it gets opened, the CD drive spins to see if anything is there... Let's just say that when Jenn turned around, Lindy had slammed the laptop closed and started running...

Go, Oakley!

In the absense of a funny story, today, I decided that I wanted to write down something so I remember it (and you might be proud of Oakley, too).

Oakley is starting her year at Day School in about three weeks. So she's fully a year away from starting Kindergarten. But Oakley can totally read... How cool is that?

This isn't something we've worked on with her at all. She simply watched Aspen learn how to read and likes to look at books a lot.

So, I think it's really cool how smart Oakley is and how she's decided to learn this herself. I'm proud of her, and I want everyone to know it.

"I love you, too"

Tim: I love you, Lindy.
Lindy: I love you, too.
Tim: Lindy, that was a really nice thing to say.
Lindy: I love you two times.