14 days

Yeehaw! 2 more weeks until my kids are in school! They're as excited as I am for school to start, but for different reasons. W's class includes 3 girls (LOL he's already a ladies' man) who are good friends of his- 2 of them live on our street. M has a friend in her class, and her playmate across the street is in the class next door, plus she gets to stay all day and bring her lunch (her words).
The fishing trip was a success. Although I got a bit of a scare- Jared called me to tell me they weren't affected by the forest fire (me- WHAT forest fire?!?!), and they thought they could still fish Loon Creek if they swung north, as the fire was blocking the south ingress. I'm thinking why on EARTH would you volunteer to fish closer to a forest fire? But they're big people, they don't need me to nag them. As it was, they decided against that (thankfully), and stayed on the east fork of the Salmon instead. Nobody got hooked or hurt on the trip. W's thumb got smashed in the car door (wind blew the door shut), but that was on the way home, so doesn't count! And it sounds like W had an awesome time, so we'll likely be planning more of these trips.
Loved seeing Melinda for the few days she visited us. It's always nice to have visitors ;)
Let's see, my favorite quote this week was from M, "When my baby teeth grow up,..." She does know she'll be losing her baby teeth- she's already gotten 2 permanent ones in.
And on the name front- we have not quite 7 weeks left, and still no real choices for names. M has submitted a few more: Cotton (thanks Melissa), Sillies, and Tickle. Some rejects from Jared's Louis L'Amour novels: Landry, Chantry, Bowdrie (sound weird w/our last name), Bendigo, Cain, KinRing, Barnabas (not nice to do that to a little baby). *sigh* I promise he won't be going home from the hospital as "baby boy Gailey" though.

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